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Jay Lonner Bellingham, WA Sent from my Atari 400 On May 31, 2024, at 13:03, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote:
My favorite Riv color was the Sage Green that they offered 20 years ago when I ordered road custom #3, but I think this same color, or much like it, has featured on stock models since then. The 2003 had lovely Joe Bell Sage Green with cream accents.
The immediately earlier (1999) road custom was painted in metallic navy with cream accents; also lovely;
BUT!
When I had the '99 modified locally in 2018, I had the builder take it to our -- then! -- local bike powdercoat specialist and have it colored Ford Blue. This coater had the knack of even, smooth, "liquid" coatings that beat most paintjobs, IMO, and the Ford Blue on that 1999 is now my favorite color.
Said coater some years ago had coated an old Rene Herse; he got close to the (admittedly faded; bike was from 1958, so I was told) light blue, but above all the coating had that "liquid" look that, again, looked better than most paint jobs.
Alas, when Chauncey built my 2020 Riv Road clone for IGH/fixed drivetrains, said coater was no longer available, and the coater he did use was far less expert: there's very, very slight orange peel on this coating.
My photographic skills are just mm higher than "nil," so extrapolate. 1937 Sturmey Archer TC hub.
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Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum
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