Cherry Bomb

[LukeTheJoker]

Very cool work as always DS!

Luke.

 

[deven_science]

Frame's been turned over to the powder coater! I'm going all out on this powder job. Silver base, then a deep cherry, and then a "vision" metallic top coat. It's going to shine from black to a shiny cherry red in the sunlight. Should get it back late next week.

 

[imthegrt1]

Great skills


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[schwinn boy]

nice middle bar! it looks like the one from by build off bike.

 

[deven_science]

Got the frame back from powder coating! It looks black in the dark, but in the light, it shines and deep purple-ish cherry. It's very cool. Started to put some of the parts on it.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

That colour is nice!

Luke.

 

[deven_science]

Put more of the "right" parts on it. Bars, stem, seat, new grips, and a lovely vintage bell that I bought for it. My wife painted the chainring, and that and the pedals went on there, as well.

The proper wheelset and disk brakes all really all that's left.

 

[deven_science]

Got the Huntington Beach wide wheel set that I'll be using for this bike, and had a disc brake laced into the front. The last two bits are to hook up the disc brake, and to eventually lace in the FlyKly electric hub that I'm still waiting on. She's a rider, and she's SMOOOOTH.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

So nice!

Luke.

 

[kingfish254]

That really came out well!!!!!

 

[jlr551CFD]

Looks great... That color is gorgeous!

 

[Bicycle808]

Your wife's bike looks great. One question:

How thick is the plate you used for the dropouts?

Thanks!

 

[deven_science]

Your wife's bike looks great. One question:

How thick is the plate you used for the dropouts?

Thanks!

I always use 3/16" plate. 1/8" may do it, but seemed too thin for me, whereas 1/4" is definitely overkill.

 

[Bicycle808]

Yeah, 3/16" is what my Genuine uses....seems good enough. The Worksman frames I got have paper-thin dropouts....3/16" seems about right, but I kinda like "definite overkill"....

Thanks for the info!