Recent content by d8mok

Hit me with any ideas as I’m totally open to most things. I’ve ruled out trying to replicate stars/bars or Rasta purely as it would annoy me if it wasn’t perfect. The issue with Kona is they did such a vast array of colours so it’s hard to make it different. I actually like its current colour...

For me on a Kil I’d go single colour My Hot is a 96 but was repainted in 98 so has 98 decals. I’m leaning towards a candy red with 96 decals in silver or gold. Do you have a Ku too?

I’m probably not the person to advise since I’m 4 months on and still haven’t decided what colour to paint my Hot. Wet paint from a bike painter in that scheme you say will be best part of £500. Single colour powder or ceramic is about £70-100. For my hot which will be a garage queen im...

I’d use a dedicated bike painter personally.

I don’t think you’d achieve it via powder. It’s come on a long way but that sounds like a wet paint job

This is correct.

What powder effect are you wanting? I've a great contact who isn't taking on new work but I'm sure i could lump it in with my stuff next time.

I did put the whole GT line up in date order but then it meant that models were split up so off they came again. OCD much

I’ve spent this morning creating ‘sections’ for each bike brand and arranging them to hang in date/ model order. Just the Kona korner left to sort another day but there’s no rush as only 1 is a complete bike with rest as frames.

KK17009 up for sale here https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12AVBsap4sx/?

I would still not describe it as immaculate unfortunately. You might get away with calling it “average”. In the the world of retro bikes it’s not uncommon to see bikes that literally can pass as new regardless of age so when someone describes it as immaculate we kinda expect it to be.

£150 is about right as above. You need the right person for it though. Its definitely going to need work and unfortunately will never be super minty as not much you can do with the frame. A really nice one sold last year for £400. But it was immaculate.

Might be worth asking Joe at Joes bikes in Worksop. Not entirely sure what he’s got stashed away as there is a lot but he’s a Marin FRS fan so you never know

I didn’t keep a record up until 2020. But I’ve kept track from 2020 until now. I’d guess around 1000 in total

He did it twice with the tyres. As it took a week for another pair to come and they landed on the following bin day and he did the same.