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Ive added a poll: Is it wrong to use non period decals? Please let me know, cheers!

Yeah it would be nice but I need to use filler to smooth the transitions between the carbon patches and the original carbon. I think I'll stick with matte black but add some gloss black details maybe using some gold glitter here and there. Maybe do the top half of the top tube and along the...

This pearl white is quite nice also...

I considered a while ago but due to the repairs ive had to do the bare carbon would look a bit rough. Also the frame is mostly made of unidirectional carbon with no visible weave. It not 100% carbon either as the BB area is essentially a big alloy lug as are the pivot points on the rear end and...

A few more...

I made a start on the painting. Applied the black epoxy primer, sanded down then applied the black metallic base colour. Sadly my prep wasn't good enough and there's a few imperfections. I was really gutted and even started second guessing the black colour. Today I was just not feeling it and...

This thread is awesome! 😍

After sanding... Looks like all the filler is gone but it's there smoothing the transition at the edges of the new carbon. Removing the excess epoxy glue from the new guides was tough. If I did this again is find a better way to clamp them while drying and wipe away the excess with isopropyl...

Hi and thanks. I already had the DP460 from the repair to the headtube so used it on the guides. I initially came across it due to a post on another forum where a guy had a similar issue on a DH bike. His lower headset insert was loose (carbon frame) so he repaired it with DP 460. The bike had...

My filler arrived from Easy Composites this morning. So I've spent today smoothing the edges of the various carbon patches ive added around the frame. The filler is supposed to be mixed accurately using a scale. But I'm quite used to 2 part fillers from my time working as a decorator so I just...

You can take the spider off and fit a direct mount chainring

I thought very long and very hard about modding the frame further to internally route the cables/hose trough the top tube in a similar way to how i did the Seatpost cable. I really wanted to do it but decided to reign it in and scrap the idea due to a lack of confidence, Im not a carbon fiber...

Sucess! Just a bit of excess glue to clean up tomorrow once fully hardened. Next up I need to buy some carbon filler and get her ready for the 2k epoxy primer 😎

Marking out the spacing for the new guides: Checking the position: Sanding the base of the guides to match the radius of the top tube: Glued up with 3M DP460:

What about some of those Ergon 'Dad grips'? https://ergonbike.shop/collections/grips/products/ergon-gp1

I read these frames will take a "27.5 x 2.1 quite happily

Thank you :)

Guides arrived from the states along with some free stickers! Who doesn't love free stickers..

Gorgeous :cool:

Very nice :cool: