Awesome bike and awesome paint. Everyone, zoom in to see the speckles. I was considering polka dots. Any lessons learned? Wow, your coverage is so even and the dots are so small. Took a while? Any tricks to speed it up or be even? Thanks for sharing. -Matthew P San Diego, CA
On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 10:57:13 PM UTC-7 exliontamer wrote: > Just wanted to show one of my favorite bikes off. It's an '81 Trek 510 > frame that I had canti-posts and a few other things added to. I know this > isn't full Riv taste, what with the carbon Ultegra indexed levers and all > and the black components, but it visually works to me somehow AND it feels > ridiculously good. > Those are 42mm 650b tires in there. The 650b conversion thing died down > years ago but I'd really recommend these frames for anyone looking for an > affordable older road bike that has clearance when you convert it. The long > reach Tektro side pulls even make canti conversion unnecessary. All that > said it's one of the best riding bikes I've ever been on and having a 91cm > PBH with a short torso can make finding older bikes hard but Treks geometry > at that time was incredibly well thought out from size to size. It's such a > different company now but that's a whole different topic. > Anyhow, I went to town with some paint pens which I'd encourage anyone to > do if you have an old beater. [image: IMG_2948.jpg] > -- 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/500b505a-dfc4-414f-8ed7-fbd1a17ab915n%40googlegroups.com.
