I had the wonderful luck of getting picking up a Lynskey R240 Custom racer built up with a pretty cool mix of Campagnolo 10 speed components.
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Having run her pretty much as-bought for the better part of two years, something started itching when the shifters were commandeered to do duty on my Mercer CX-tourer (build here).
I changed a couple of small items: Adding leather bar tape (complete with champagne corks as plugs) and a Brooks Swallow saddle.
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While I loved the colour (candy apply red), I wasn't too fond of the decals (like the "Lynskey Custom" you can see here). Also, I managed to chip the paint on the top tube through sheer carelessness (yep, leaning her against a street light on a gradient, sob, sob). I've also discovered that painted Titanium is pretty chip prone in general: several smalls spots around the BB area, as well as the cable guides on the down tube losing some paint.
This all pointed to a new paint job to fix the chips, change the decals and get a more classic look. A re-occurring theme I hope to never cure of...
I stripped the frame and fork of all components and dispatched same to a frame painter rumoured to be the best in the country...One Anton of Bogus Designs (check his Instagram handle here).
On cleaning up the parts, I discovered the headset cups were pitted pretty badly:
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Ah well, Chris King to the rescue...
Also, the current bar, stem and seat post aren't matching and likely not quite suitable to where I want to go with this bad boy. Some time to ponder this direction...
