British racing green and cream. [image: Green bomba.jpg]
On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 7:27:47 PM UTC-5 Jason Fuller wrote: > So, many of you are probably aware of the Bombadil that lives within my > realm of belongings thanks to Joe having taken it in and then releasing it > back into the wild. I, as many of you, love the clearcoat-over-raw finish > that it has. I'm 50% sure I want to keep it this way, even though it > provides sub-optimal corrosion protection, and just touch up problem areas > as they arise. > > But I'm also 50% sure I want to strip it back down to a frame, have it > restored and frame-saver'd, and professionally painted. Timeline on this > wouldn't be immediate - probably next year, or the year after that, but I > like to plan ahead. To my chagrin in this group I would not be sending it > to Joe Bell because I'm in Canada and it would be like $400 in shipping > alone, plus I'm local to Chris Dekerf who has a very capable paint studio > that does lots of impressive custom work (all of Chromag's locally made > frames, for instance). > > I absolutely would be doing a proper two-color paintjob with all the lug > detailing that a MUSA Rivendell has, and I want the color selection to look > like a natural choice for the Bombadil - it doesn't have to be a Rivendell > colour, but I want it to look like it could easily have been in 2009. I > also wouldn't do this unless I can get the proper decals to apply after, > though Riv never responds to my emails so I'll probably need to give them a > call on this. > > I am gravitating towards greens and greys at the moment. Ideas include: > - Classic Hunq green > - Vaughn's custom green (bit more of a sage quality) > - Bomba / Hunq dark grey, but without the red paneling - maybe the cream > white?? > - I don't know this is hard! > > Leah made me aware that Taiwan does not use consistent paint coding as > North America, so while I love the idea of the new Platypus blue-silver > (actually green-blue), it's probably not possible. > > My knowledge of what colors the Bombadil came in is limited by what google > tells me because I did not know of this bike when it was new. There are > surely period-correct Rivendell colors I haven't considered, but many of > you were there and lived through it - and I'd love your ideas! > > [image: Bomby.JPG] > > Many thanks, > Jason in Vancouver BC > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/eb41c864-0145-48a7-b43e-6fe0a30aa4abn%40googlegroups.com.
