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stickman:
Hi all HAPPY NEW YEAR! Im startin my GT project and will be posting pics and askin questions along the way.
So I got this off ebay a couple of weeks ago havent had too much time to mess with it but every spare minute i have im gettin dirty lol.
I have stripped everything down and am going to give everything a clean down today and if i have enough time left will strip the paint off the frame too.
My plan was to get all the chrome stuff blasted off but so many people keep sayin "give it a bath" so i am going to bath it then paint over the chrome.
As for colour scheme.... well i have been deliberatin but have defo made my mind up now. Im gonna match the colours off the decals. Brilliant white on the forks, bars and cranks with the frame, seat post, rims, hubs and spokes in black. I was gonna go with some gold touches but have now decided to go with blue bits instead because if down the line i want to get the og decals on then it would math in real nice.


Here it is as i got it



And here all stripped i have now removed the headset cups too



Will post later on when ive done some work  ;D

deeman:
Good work so far!  :daumenhoch:

stickman:
Thanks Dee
Well i got a bit done 2day but time got cut short.
Cleaned out the bottom bracket.
Gave the chainring and stem a quik wipe they arent going on this bike so wasnt too worried about them gonna put thm on my chrome dyno.
Then whacked some nitromors on the frame and wow is that paint is tuff! I have stripped a lot of paint in my time (being a decorater) but that was hard work....
But at least i got some off  :LolLolLolLol: I have just had a bit of a rub and it looks like it should come up good so all in all not too bad just wish i had more time.
Anyone tried stripping frame paint with a heat gun? Seems like it might work better and i cant see it causing any issues as long as im careful?
Hers some pics

stickman:
Why does it not let me type s h o r t every time it puts Spen instead idk wtf Spen is lmao???? so strange  ???

deeman:

--- Quote from: stickman on January 02, 2016, 06:06 PM ---Why does it not let me type s h o r t every time it puts Spen instead idk wtf Spen is lmao???? so strange  ???

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This is a recent addition to the forum.....it's a reference to long respected member Spen69 who is apparently slightly 'vertically challenged'  :daumenhoch:

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