The last paint job I did on my frame was bloody awful so I decided to give some enamel paint a go and to at least try and strip the frame properly first. I busted out some Nitromors and it beat the living daylights out of the graffiti paint, it came right off. Unfortunately as soon as the Nitromors had done its job it started pissing down so I had to paint ANOTHER frame in a dark, small, filthy shed in damp weather. I primed and painted it blah blah blah, then made a truly pathetic attempt at baking the enamel dry using a rotating heater, they paint still wasn't fully hard this morning and I ended up leaving some fingerprints on the top tube but they may come in handy one day! I can't be bothered to write any more now, if it's boring to write then it must be really boring to read.
Primer, enamel gloss, Nitromors, Bianchi cap, Silver Jews t-shirt, boosh!
Ready for action
As dangerous as they make out?
Within seconds!
Within minutes...
...fizzle, fizzle
After some chiselling
Mostly free of paint
Primed in the shed
All the bits wait patiently
A pathetic attempt at baking the enamel dry
Looked nice in the morning
Ready for work
Outside Exist in town
I've been on the lookout for a 19" frame for a while cause my 21" is a tad too long for me. I've been scouring the paper and every week I've been calling into Re-Cycle in the hope that something will have been donated but no cigar. Until today. Turns out there has been a 19" frame there the whole time underneath a bunch of other frames, it's a Sun Worksop which as far as I can find was gobbled up by Raleigh, from Wikipedia: "In 1960, Tube Investments acquired Raleigh and merged the British Cycle Corporation with Raleigh to form TI-Raleigh which had 75% of the UK market. TI-Raleigh then acquired Carlton Cycles in Worksop, England, at the time one of the largest semi-custom lightweight makers in the U.K. Raleigh brands acquired and marketed were Phillips Cycles and Hercules Cycle, Rudge, BSA, and Sun, however these were cheaper machines in The TI-Raleigh range. Production was switched to Nottingham, however the Sun branded bicycles were made in the Carlton factory at Worksop, England."
It's nothing special but at least it will fit me and it's certainly better than the Apollo Challenger frame I'm using currently. Check it out:
It's pretty rusty but nothing a bit of sandpaper won't fix
Pretty cool headbadge
"Sweet lugs"
Pretty weird?