So I'm going to be painting my bike "stone". I'm gona be trying to convert the bike to a more freestyle/DH type bike (since it's allready heavy as hell) and I can't be having it this fru fru blue color. Can the marzocchi drop off dual crown fork handle some good stuff? Jr T? Or should i fork over the change and get a 888?
I could be wrong, but is that frame ready to handle downhill abuse? The triple crank scares the hell out of me. But other than that, good luck with it.
haha thanks for the heads up. I can tig, was thinking about adding supports.. but will prolly be easier to just get a new frame huh? Think it will at least look good?
Keep in mind, i am a beginner at downhill.. so i will not do any crazy/fast stuff.. just some ~10 ft drops and small hills here and there with this bike... i'm nooby
haha thanks for the heads up. I can tig, was thinking about adding supports.. but will prolly be easier to just get a new frame huh? Think it will at least look good?
Keep in mind, i am a beginner at downhill.. so i will not do any crazy/fast stuff.. just some ~10 ft drops and small hills here and there with this bike... i'm nooby
hey guys, allready found some frames on pinkbike.com Looking at some Spec bighit frames for pretty good price. Sucks, gotta take money out of the vette fund
haha thanks for the heads up. I can tig, was thinking about adding supports.. but will prolly be easier to just get a new frame huh? Think it will at least look good?
Keep in mind, i am a beginner at downhill.. so i will not do any crazy/fast stuff.. just some ~10 ft drops and small hills here and there with this bike... i'm nooby
I saw where a kid here at school "stoned" his bike. It was a Huffy... He didn't do any prep at all, just painted it. Tires, chain, rims, and all! He also left the bike outside, and after 3 rains, over half of it had washed off!
hmm its a haro x2...which was made as a DH type bike? i dunno about that year model but thats what the x series is now. if you gunna paint it sand it down a bit, prime it, give it 2 solid coats an then some clear coat if you actually wanna make it look nice. you can easicly chance it fro a 3 ring to a 2 ring w/ bashguard!
If you add (weld) material remember that you need to heat-treat the frame. Say goodbye to your fancy stone paintjob. (unless you do it first of course). Me? I can't wait to see the stone paint job. I'm thinking about doing that to my fork. That, or some sort of undercoating.
I saw where a kid here at school "stoned" his bike. It was a Huffy... He didn't do any prep at all, just painted it. Tires, chain, rims, and all! He also left the bike outside, and after 3 rains, over half of it had washed off!
hey guys, allready found some frames on pinkbike.com Looking at some Spec bighit frames for pretty good price. Sucks, gotta take money out of the vette fund
won't be converting this bike to DH.. after seeing the prices on some of the FSR frames... gonna go that route instead but still gonna paint this bike stone.
won't be converting this bike to DH.. after seeing the prices on some of the FSR frames... gonna go that route instead but still gonna paint this bike stone.
lol sorry,took the bottom bracket out last night and the pivot portion of the rear and found one of the bearings was broken. So, i stopped last night and im 6 hours away from home tonight so I cant work on it. Gonna use some aircraft paint stripper when i get home tomorrow night (if i make it in time) and start scuffing the metal to get primer to stick. After i get the primer (1 coat) I'm gonna spray the stone paint on about 2-3 coats... this stuff is SUPER THICK!!!! Will post pics of the process.
just put the last coat on the rest of the bike. Gonna put it back together tomorrow.
Thinking about putting "Stoned" on the side where the HARO decal used to be.
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