It's an Orange Furry Blue

Here's the bike back from the powdercoater, it's not assembled I just put on some pieces to visualize, hopefully next week it'll be ready for a test ride.

Happy Holidays and a good New Year to everyone!

atomic orange

It's been a long time since my last post, but slowly things have been going on.

The next Furry Blue frame has been built and it's now being powder coated. I'll talk more about the frame in another post, here I'll mostly talk color. I've been somewhat obsessed with copper/orangish type colors for some time, and this past summer there was a Corvette show in downtown Los Altos. I saw a beautiful Corvette that was "atomic orange"and decided I wanted that color, or something close to it, for my next bike - see picture.

It took some effort to find a powder coat color that is close - I got samples for a bunch of standard RAL colors from Tiger and nothing was a match. So I bought touch up paint from a Chevy dealer, applied the paint to some paper and sent it off to Prismatic. The best match was a two step process consisting of a basecoat and a tinted overcoat. I think it'll look good, we'll see.

Meanwhile, here's the raw frame - surprise, it's not a mixte, it's a versatile road bike designed for the Grand Bois 650B X 32 tires and I'll be trying out the Mary On-One handlebars too: