If ever a Klein was in need of a refurb...!

nausea

Retro Guru
This will hopefully be an interesting project. Having owned this Pinnacle for 33 years, it's gone from its original gloss black, to a raw aluminium incarnation, to a rat bike as you see here.

The idea is to do a high quality paint job using marine / heritage enamel paints. I am a canal boat painter and have about £1000 worth of spare paint lying around so it seems a bit silly to consider using anything else!

In terms of paint scheme, I'm thinking a nod to the traditional with a unique twist - "Rainforest-esque". The paint will be applied in the same manner as the famous Rainforest scheme but in more muted green shades. Much as I loved that scheme, the use of black jarred with me a bit so I'll be using a pale-ish muted green for the base coat with two other green shades - one lighter, one darker, for the sponge applied elements.

Were the Pinnacle and Rascal available in Rainforest? I have seen one Rascal in that scheme but I wonder whether that might have been a repaint...

Anyway, hoping to get this project done within a month but we'll see how it goes!!
 

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You have to show us some of your work now @nausea !? Bikes and Boats thread ….?
Here are a couple of good ones... I'm going to be brush painting this frame as I would a boat. That might sound strange but I noticed when painting cylindrical items on the boats such as handrails and tiller arms, the finish turns out incredibly smooth. It's to do with the fact that the internal portion of the paint is smaller than the external area so as the paint contracts the brush marks disappear!
 

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Drawing up a chair for this refurb. Love the rat bike.
Thanks! For a while I was probably the only person in the country to be cycling to the supermarket on a pre-Trek Klein. A hideous paint job is a more effective theft deterrent than a massive lock when leaving your bike outside the shops!
 
I'm in for the artistry. Hand lettering is one of my favorite things. As one of the last generation of graphic designers trained in the old ways, I see it as a connection to our past. Feel free to share more examples of your other work along with the Klein
 
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