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Title: SE FLOVAL FLYER 1999 colour advice
Post by: generallee on August 18, 2006, 07:15 PM

m building a floval flyer, ive stripped the frame, and was gonna polish it - ive started on the downtube and cant quite get the mirror finish Id like - im either gonna keep trying with the wet n dry / autosol / peek method, OR im gonna have it powdercoated - and im thinking that with the NOS decal set I have [in gold] I could either go baby blue or perhaps black? Im tempted towards black as all the bits and wheels Ive got are black and chrome [chrome forks, black wheels, chrome hubs, chrome cranks, black seatpost and seat, black bars, chrome stem etc...]
So - any thoughts on what colour? Or should I stick with the polishing? I cant decide!
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/e120/tapperoon/0404.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/e120/tapperoon/flovaldecalgold.jpg)

Title: Re: SE FLOVAL FLYER 1999 colour advice
Post by: Del on August 18, 2006, 07:59 PM

Black! :daumenhoch:
Once you've had black there's no turning back.

Title: Re: SE FLOVAL FLYER 1999 colour advice
Post by: Dingobmxer on August 19, 2006, 08:14 AM

keep polishing
 :) DINGO :)

Title: Re: SE FLOVAL FLYER 1999 colour advice
Post by: generallee on August 20, 2006, 11:50 AM

Think Im gonna go for black ... any other comments on ideas on colours.....?

Title: Re: SE FLOVAL FLYER 1999 colour advice
Post by: se on August 20, 2006, 08:18 PM

I've got a 99 Floval in polished and it looked good once but is a bitch to keep looking good (doesn't help that I am a lazy sod so never polish it mind). Depends whether you want to ride it or show it off - polished to show, paint to go.

Title: Re: SE FLOVAL FLYER 1999 colour advice
Post by: jT Racing on August 20, 2006, 08:21 PM

powder it, black i say, black.

Title: Re: SE FLOVAL FLYER 1999 colour advice
Post by: duncan on August 20, 2006, 08:31 PM

It's just a trick of the light, but the top and seat tubes look like they're mother-of-pearl.
A "Country & Western Flyer"  :D

Have you tried just polishing a small section at a time - if you try to do a large area at once and the polish dries then it doesn't get that mirror finish.