Many years ago a friend of mine (You know who you are) thought I needed to have a road bike. So since we were pretty similar in height and inseam. He gave me his old racing frame. A very cool lugged steel Italian Montagner. About 12 years ago I did a half assed job of fixing it up. Scrapped a different road bike and used the parts on the Montagner. Gave it a flat black paint job and called it good. Well with the possibility of riding with a group on the road looming this spring I figured I should be better represented since I am the president of the newly formed WNBC.
Here it is before I stripped it down. I'll be reusing parts of the drivetrain, wheels, headset and stem(for now).
I came up with a few new paint schemes.
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| Breast Cancer Scheme |
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| Irish Version |
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| Colon Cancer Scheme |
After posting up on facebook and taking the votes from my peers. Votes came in about 50/50. With my Dads current health I came up with this final design. Dave from Redstone Cyclery said that if it's old and Italian it needs chrome. So I'll show the rear chrome.
I have new bits to go on like, brake levers, brakes, seatpost, seat, bar, bartape and a new set of tires. I'm going to strip the frame down to steel. I'm going to do some practice tubes out of PVC so I can get the fade in the top, down and seat tubes right. I'm thinking I might use Mom's cutter and make some templates for the fades. Do some triangles that will give the fade a cool look. Stay tuned....more to come.
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