martinjonstone
Dirt Disciple
I've been working hard on my first project, and thought I'd give you guys an update to see what you think.
As a kid all I ever wanted was a 1990 Cro-Mega LX in bright pink (the yellow never quite did it for me!) but never had the funds. Anyway, a quick search while reminiscing a while back led me to this site, and I was inspired to have a bash at restoring one. The closest I could find for sale was this battered Alpine LX, which wasn't ideal, with slightly different geometry and forks, but I'm not one to let details get in the way!
Before stripping down I spent many hours tracing the graphics (inspired by a thread on Sinett177s Alpinestars) , and many more on a graphics package transforming from Alpine to Cro-Mega.
Then the hard graft started, stripping down, plenty of Framesaver, Krust, and filler applied.
With all the filler and fluro colours, this had got to be a spray at home job, but should be ok as I'm planning to use this as a very cool commuter! So next up was a generous helping of filler primer.
Once sanded back, that classic day-glo scheme could be applied.
In the meantime, Gil_m had done a fantstic job on the decals, which could then be applied.
As you can see, no stone was left unturned on the decals...
Hope you like it so far, next up is a coat of lacquer to get that shine before I start building the bike, watch this space....
As a kid all I ever wanted was a 1990 Cro-Mega LX in bright pink (the yellow never quite did it for me!) but never had the funds. Anyway, a quick search while reminiscing a while back led me to this site, and I was inspired to have a bash at restoring one. The closest I could find for sale was this battered Alpine LX, which wasn't ideal, with slightly different geometry and forks, but I'm not one to let details get in the way!
Before stripping down I spent many hours tracing the graphics (inspired by a thread on Sinett177s Alpinestars) , and many more on a graphics package transforming from Alpine to Cro-Mega.
Then the hard graft started, stripping down, plenty of Framesaver, Krust, and filler applied.
With all the filler and fluro colours, this had got to be a spray at home job, but should be ok as I'm planning to use this as a very cool commuter! So next up was a generous helping of filler primer.
Once sanded back, that classic day-glo scheme could be applied.
In the meantime, Gil_m had done a fantstic job on the decals, which could then be applied.
As you can see, no stone was left unturned on the decals...
Hope you like it so far, next up is a coat of lacquer to get that shine before I start building the bike, watch this space....
