GreenNeedle
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Hi guys. You may remember the project I did a couple of years ago where I turned this Tifosi:
Into this Super SiX:
Well some urchin nicked that from Tesco a couple of months ago and with no money to buy anything as good as the Tifosi, I ended up getting a second hand Raleigh Airlite 300.
I quite like this bike but have the itchy finger urge to customise again.
So I am going to attempt to turn this:
Into something like this:
I'm going to make this much more of a custom job though. On the last 'customisation' it was more a case of buying the stickers, spraying the frame black, putting on stickers and lacquering. A direct replica if you like.
This time I am going to personalise it a bit. Use the colour scheme of the Baum but make my own 'stencils' from wide masking tape so it will look the same but not have 'Baum' on it.
You may notice that I seem to love the black/white/green combo. Maybe I do. lol. My website is the same colours and I'm even doing my bathroom in those colours too (more white with black/green)
So with that in in I am going to use my website name GreenNeedle as the bike 'graphics'.
GREEN will replace the BAUM logos and Needle will replace the Ristretto logos. I'm also going to adapt the website's main logo (same as my Avatar) as the head tube badge.
I'm going to replicate all the actual detail on this bike including inside the forks and the top of the seat stem etc so it could all go horribly wrong
On a budget as always and because I like the way the straight blade forks look on the Baum I am doing as I did previously and looking for some cheap Carbon ones on ebay. Will also replace the bars, stem, Seatpost and saddle plus add carbon spacers and seat tube clamp.
I'm even considering getting some new shifters eventually. Was looking at the coloured microshift ones but I think I will probably look for a pair of 105 doubles.
So not going to happen at this very moment. will wait for the forks to come up then start planning things.
If you want to see how the detailing on this bike is the following flicker stream has a few pics (4th pic to 9th pic)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baumcycles/page3/
Wish me luck
Andy
Into this Super SiX:
Well some urchin nicked that from Tesco a couple of months ago and with no money to buy anything as good as the Tifosi, I ended up getting a second hand Raleigh Airlite 300.
I quite like this bike but have the itchy finger urge to customise again.
So I am going to attempt to turn this:
Into something like this:
I'm going to make this much more of a custom job though. On the last 'customisation' it was more a case of buying the stickers, spraying the frame black, putting on stickers and lacquering. A direct replica if you like.
This time I am going to personalise it a bit. Use the colour scheme of the Baum but make my own 'stencils' from wide masking tape so it will look the same but not have 'Baum' on it.
You may notice that I seem to love the black/white/green combo. Maybe I do. lol. My website is the same colours and I'm even doing my bathroom in those colours too (more white with black/green)
So with that in in I am going to use my website name GreenNeedle as the bike 'graphics'.
GREEN will replace the BAUM logos and Needle will replace the Ristretto logos. I'm also going to adapt the website's main logo (same as my Avatar) as the head tube badge.
I'm going to replicate all the actual detail on this bike including inside the forks and the top of the seat stem etc so it could all go horribly wrong
On a budget as always and because I like the way the straight blade forks look on the Baum I am doing as I did previously and looking for some cheap Carbon ones on ebay. Will also replace the bars, stem, Seatpost and saddle plus add carbon spacers and seat tube clamp.
I'm even considering getting some new shifters eventually. Was looking at the coloured microshift ones but I think I will probably look for a pair of 105 doubles.
So not going to happen at this very moment. will wait for the forks to come up then start planning things.
If you want to see how the detailing on this bike is the following flicker stream has a few pics (4th pic to 9th pic)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baumcycles/page3/
Wish me luck
Andy