I have an orange Rambouillet, complete with "beausage" from a nincompoop who bumped it over hobby-horsing his plastic Merckx (oxymoron?) at the start of a ride, scarfing the length of the right seat stay. I looked into a repaint and yes, the color is a complex application and will buy you a a brand new sky blue San Marcos.
Well, I am not without my own scars and disfigurements. The way that bike rides takes my mind off the cosmetic issues as soon as I'm rolling. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:50:38 PM UTC-4, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 13:19 -0700, George Schick wrote: > > All replies to this post are good - the temporary field fix, the > > general issues surrounding steel dropouts and the various factors that > > can lead to failure, the way Riv lives up to its reputation for > > supporting their products, etc. But I own a Rambouillet of the same > > vintage as the OP and if something like this ever happened to it I'd > > have to find a way to get it repainted the same brilliant orange color > > as the original, even if I had to pay for the paint job myself. > > Not much of a chance of that. It's not a "brilliant orange color," it's > a multi-stage paint job with transparent paint over a pearl layer. I'm > not sure if anyone knows how to do it, but I do know it's impossible to > touch up. > > > I know this kind of flies in the face of the beausage philosophy, but > > I love that goldish orange they used so much that I'd just have to > > keep it somehow. > > It was nice, I'll give you that. > > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
