The seat cluster, all cleaned up. I'm really happy with how this all came out...
The fork with brazed-on Mafac bosses. Huge head tube!
Slotless front dropouts.
Crown and lower headlug.
From above. (There's some waviness to take out of that lower headlug...)
And now, some lovely hand-drawn colour scheme mockups. (Those are fork crowns seen from the top on the left, obviously.) I'm currently leaning toward the bottom one:
Update: I finished everything off today — it's ready for paint now! Also mounted the cranks to make sure clearance was okay. It is—but the NOS Nuovo Record 48T track chainring I bought for this bike... is not a track chainring! It's a 3/32". I can't believe I didn't notice!
Anyway, here are my latest thoughts on colour scheme, including a painted Silca pump:
3 comments:
That's a great looking bike, Adam.
I tend to agree with you on the bottom colour scheme. The less saturated blue looks more like the flag.
Ron
Looks nice. However, I say paint the fork blue to match and add a white panel on the seat tube.
Ron: I'm with you; that's the right colour.
And Michael: yeah, away with the white fork! Though I think I will leave the seat tube blue, put get Noah to paint my pump the white/cream colour. New mockup added to the post!
(ps: I put the finishing touches on things today... off to paint immediately!)
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