I figured it might be fun to share a recent and favourite bike of mine. Some months ago I was lucky enough to buy a 1989 Romax (# 585) from its original owner on Vancouver Island. It came with a few Brodie catalogs, magazines featuring Brodie articles of that time, the original bill of sale and a 4x6” print from the day the owner took his bike home from The Trail Shop in Halifax, NS in 1990. As per the receipt, the bike’s paint scheme was noted as “Sky Camo.” It’s tough to know if that’s a Brodie classification or just one that the shop thought of but it seems fitting to refer to it as such. One other bit of receipt context relates to the $400.00 discount, supposedly a trade in credit for his old Miyata road bike - pretty sweet!
Of all the Brodie paint schemes, the sky camo/cloud schemes always checked off all the right boxes for me. I’d seen photos of two others previously, an incredible TIG climbMax with a matching P2 fork which I think resides somewhere in the EU (Germany?) and another Romax in BC with Paint by Rich. As per Paul B., it’s possible that this Romax and the climbMax were painted by Art Tyler (Art Department). Either way, all three bikes are fantastic and I’d really wanted one after seeing the other cloud examples. Lucky for me, this one also came with a 1st generation curved Gatorblade, pretty exciting!
Now onto the less-than-ideal part… It had a lot of surface rust, considerable paint loss, a seized seat post stuck wayyyyy down, a seized bb and a bent derailleur hanger. All solvable stuff really, the great news was that there was no actual corrosion. All said, there was no way I could pass on it and I’ve really enjoyed getting it back on the trails after giving it a lot of TLC. I guess I’ll quit rambling and post some photos
As found:
Of all the Brodie paint schemes, the sky camo/cloud schemes always checked off all the right boxes for me. I’d seen photos of two others previously, an incredible TIG climbMax with a matching P2 fork which I think resides somewhere in the EU (Germany?) and another Romax in BC with Paint by Rich. As per Paul B., it’s possible that this Romax and the climbMax were painted by Art Tyler (Art Department). Either way, all three bikes are fantastic and I’d really wanted one after seeing the other cloud examples. Lucky for me, this one also came with a 1st generation curved Gatorblade, pretty exciting!
Now onto the less-than-ideal part… It had a lot of surface rust, considerable paint loss, a seized seat post stuck wayyyyy down, a seized bb and a bent derailleur hanger. All solvable stuff really, the great news was that there was no actual corrosion. All said, there was no way I could pass on it and I’ve really enjoyed getting it back on the trails after giving it a lot of TLC. I guess I’ll quit rambling and post some photos

As found:







