Rocket-Boy Posted October 9, 2015 Share Damn that is sexy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted October 9, 2015 Share BTW patch - can you post a pic of the full bike again please? I just want to check it out again. Maybe I was trippin a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2015 Share BTW patch - can you post a pic of the full bike again please? I just want to check it out again. Maybe I was trippin a bit... Which full bike? The Sukuma? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted October 9, 2015 Share Which full bike? The Sukuma?yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2015 Share yeah Captain Fastbastard Mayhem and Hackster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolipoli Posted October 9, 2015 Share Patches, That is looking Sweet! (Sukuma and the sexually frustrated one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2015 Share Patches, That is looking Sweet! (Sukuma and the sexually frustrated one) Thanks Noli! I'm very interested to see how your frame turns out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted October 9, 2015 Share Yeah. Okay. the frame looks gorgeous by itself, but I think it's the mismatched nature of the parts that's doing it a dis-service. Reckon it'd look farr better with a black fork, black grips and bash and so on... Rocket-Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2015 Share Yeah. Okay. the frame looks gorgeous by itself, but I think it's the mismatched nature of the parts that's doing it a dis-service. Reckon it'd look farr better with a black fork, black grips and bash and so on... Black fork yes... (but have you seen the price of a Pike ) But as for the rest... that photo doesn't do the colours justice. None really do, it has to be seen IRL. The orange grips, bash guard etc go quite well. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted October 9, 2015 Share yeah - $$$$!!! And I'll take your word for it, given that the IRL colours of pretty much all bikes are so much better than in the pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2015 Share LOL. Remember your ORIGINAL sukuma "re-do"? Yeah. THAT one. But as for the current sukuma job - very good, but the colour combo (those turquoises with the orange) just don't do it for me. Maybe if it was a single turquoise, or a slighly different shade of orange, it would. But it just (for some reason) elicits a "meh" from me. Maybe it's the whole bike, when built, that makes me think of it like that, but yeah. I'm pretty sure that with the right colours on the full bike, it'd look pimp. Sorry dude.... I wish I could say otherwise, but... yeah. http://i.imgur.com/eB7rkAM.png pffft, I ain't taking no colour advice from someone who's bike's colour scheme was based on a mucous identification chart! http://blistergearreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GiantRegin1Stock.jpg http://www.thedoctorstv.com/system/images/W1siZiIsIkF0dGFjaG1lbnRzLzAwMDAvNTg1MS91cmluZV9jb2xvcnMucG5nIl1d/urine_colors.png just messing with ya! And yes, that Reign colour scheme does look better IRL. It's a good thing everyone's tastes aren't alike. Would make the world a boring place, and then everyone would want a bike that looks like mine! Captain Fastbastard Mayhem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Deon) Posted October 9, 2015 Share Yeah. Okay. the frame looks gorgeous by itself, but I think it's the mismatched nature of the parts that's doing it a dis-service. Reckon it'd look farr better with a black fork, black grips and bash and so on... dude, really? Ok so the white fork is garish but nothing a black lower won't fix. Always loved that about the black carbon rear that could match the black fork lower - I wouldn't worry about the sliders. The orange accents are totally spot on, it's matching the decals that can't be seen from the side.. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem and Eddy Gordo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted October 9, 2015 Share dude, really? Ok so the white fork is garish but nothing a black lower won't fix. Always loved that about the black carbon rear that could match the black fork lower - I wouldn't worry about the sliders. The orange accents are totally spot on, it's matching the decals that can't be seen from the side..Dude... personal opinion. Paint job is supreme, but for some reason it's just not grabbing me in my short n curlies. Stanchions - meh. Whatever. Never worried about that unless it was a super blacked out frame and stealth was your ultimate goal. Black lowers would be just fine... As I said before - maybe I was smoking something, maybe I was just having a bad day. Maybe it's just the white lowers throwing the rest off... . But yeah... just something about it in its current form that's not gelling. Without having seen it in the flesh, that is. Take Adam vd Ploeg's bike (mada3400) - in pictures, it looks HIDEOUS. Black and red frame, blue wheels, mismatched colours everywhere. In person - totally perfect. Edited October 9, 2015 by Myles Mayhew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2015 Share hahahahaha! Ok gents... back on topic... some anodising education (which I learnt the hard way)... So I'd heard (and read) somewhere that vinyl doesn't stick to anodised surfaces, and that if one wants to band an anodised frame they have to have it laser etched. This isn't entirely true. Firstly, vinyl will stick to an anodised surface, but it depends on the texture of that surface. So smooth (whether matt or gloss finish)... fine. But rough (like the surface finish on Renthals), not so great. BUT there is another method to brand an anodised frame. One can mask it. So between anodising and dyeing steps, one can use the cut vinyl to mask off the desired design. Then during dyeing phase the colour will soak into all the pores except where it is masked. After that, the entire item is sealed (so that the porous anodised surface doesn't suck in any contaminants.This whole process is quite tricky though. I tried it on the purple frame in question, but I contaminated the unsealed anodised surface during the masking process. Even a finger-print will show up. So I put on some nitrile gloves, washed them in isopropyl alcohol, and worked as carefully as possible. Unfortunately the glue from the vinyl application backing was sucked into the porous surface, so the dye looked smudged around the masked areas.There is a way to counteract this... with a bleaching phase, but due to time and the lack of a giant tank of bleach... I opted to just have it redone, plane purple, and white decals will go on this weekend.All in all, a very educational experience, and the guys at Astro are legends. The frame was prepped 3x, anodised and dyed twice... and not once did they complain about my experimental theories wasting their time, and they didn't add any cost for repeating the work. Edited October 13, 2015 by patches KingTJ, Captain Fastbastard Mayhem, DubbelBuys and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayleyearth Posted October 9, 2015 Share Joh, people can change their opinion about things so much...so maybe I can too.. Patch, I might not like you anymore, but I still like the colours of your Sukuma You have a eye for these things for sure...just not 100% sure I like the fact that you are thinking about putting white decals on the sexually frustrated frame - white is boring and 'cheap'... Captain Fastbastard Mayhem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Steer Posted October 9, 2015 Share 2015-10-09 08.17.00.jpg Frame re-assembled and ready for branding (vinyl) Will post the rest when it's done. You strip the frame yourself?Considering this for my EMD Niner - she needs some TLC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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