woo to the hoo! picked my bike up at counterbalance after they finely tuned my lovely new machine.

so here are some photos of the project. first things first, the old bike and with the addition of some aircraft stripper and elbow grease:

it had a bit of surface rust so i had to break out the sandpaper and get after it before priming. le resulte:

once the main color was done, i then accented the lugs with a different color (“color”s being somewhat a misnomer as they were both different greys.)

i also, dis-assembled the brakes and matched them to the base-coat. and the final product after a new handle bar, post levers, brake levers, fenders and a little tuning:

not sure how i feel about the blue. i think i’m going to swap out the grips and the saddle and go with white on both. then i’m pretty sure the wheels are gonna set things off with a little color, still undecided.