On Monday, 4 November 2019 19:56:33 UTC-5, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 15:44:27 -0800 (PST), Sir Ridesalot
wrote:

On Monday, 4 November 2019 16:35:51 UTC-5, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-10-16 09:44, Tom Kunich wrote:
My Basso Loto was one of the final steel versions. It seemed to have
a perfect ride. However, since I took it apart to refinish it I got
the Lemond and between the ride of the Colnago CLX 3.0 and the ride
of the Lemond Zurich made out of Reynolds 853 I will have to test it
again. In any case it will be my spare rider.

Presently I have the frame and fork in the powder coaters and expect
them to get around to it around the end of next week. I was not
enthused about the original colors of the Loto - Yellow and Blue with
a red highlight. So I'm having it a solid "transparent blue" which
they had a sample of when I was there. A hot rodder was having his
rims coated. I had been planning on Candy Apple Blue but they had a
hot rodder's transmission there finished in that color and the
"Transparent Blue" looked a little cleaner.

These guys have gone from finishing store shelves and the like to
coating entire cars for hot rodders in the Trump economy. They had a
pickup truck there they were about to put in the oven while I was
there. It would cook to a metallic yellow.

After I pick the frame and fork up I will have to get a set of Basso
Loto decals, then coat the entire frame with clear. I learned from
the last try on the Pinarello and will use many very light coats
instead of a few heavy. And then have the bottom bracket threads
cleaned and the Campy headset that was in it re-installed.

I just finished building a tubeless wheel up. The deep carbon wheels
are remarkably difficult to build. Off and on it took me three days
to get that thing properly centered and true when I could build an
aluminum wheel in a couple of hours easy.


Wow, you are really going all out when it comes to your rides. I am the
exact opposite. Both my MTB and my road bike have lots of scrapes and
are generally caked in copious amounts of dried mud. Add in a few grease
streaks and some vegetation mashed deep into the works here and there.
My wife thinks the bikes look disgusting but then again this greatly
reduces the chance of them being stolen.

The money for the decals would in my case be invested in IPA, Imperial
Stout or something similar.

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Regards, Joerg

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But vastly improves the chances of something breaking.

And, if I remember correctly it did break, many times :-)
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cheers,

John B.

When I was younger I road with a friend a lot. we sometimes rode through very deep mud almost to the axles. I would never have dreamed leaving that mud on the bike. When we'd get to a dry spot we'd scrape off the vast majority of mud. Funny thing is we never had much trouble with something breaking. That was because stuff didn't break due to being neglected by leaving mud built up on it.

Cheers