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This whole project began with the realization that I want a yellow bike. Because yellow is such a busy and fast color. Not as fast as red, but I don't think I'm ready for such speeds yet.
Anyway, after roughening the pulvercoating, I canned the primer on the frame and everything was nice and good. After letting the primer dry enough, I started with the actual color. Well, needless to say, I screwed it up big time.
My experience with painting frames is limited, but my Dumpster Nishiki was sort of a success. Quite even surfaces. Well, maybe BRG is an easier color than yellow, which turned out to be really hard to get even. I probably painted too eagerly, since the paint started to run leaving really ugly traces. I even had to even some places out with sandpaper after a while.
And then I ran out of paint. One can isn't really enough for one frame. At least not if you're painting yellow, which doesn't cover as effectively as darker colors.
But yes, mostly it's just my firm lack of skill that's to blame.
This isn't by any means the lightest frame around. On the contrary, probably Tange tubing, possibly even single butted. At least the front fork is Tange, and I'd assume the frame as well, but I don't really know.
There are plenty affordable steel frames (like the Fuji track fr'instance), but the cheaper ones lack lugs! And lugs obviously make the bike go faster, so I had to settle for this.
My new track bike project.
Originally the frame is - so I have been told - an old Raleigh road bike frame, chopped and brazed again by Olli Erkkilä (don't know him, I bought this from a guy for whom Erkkilä had converted the frame).
The geometry has been steeped a little, track fork ends added and the front fork has been shortened. (As have been all the tubes I suppose?)
The frame was pulvercoated white, with mint canned on it.