Old team MBUK bike with Jo Burt paint job...

[deelam]

Does anyone remember a bike, often in MBUK (may have been a DOGSBOLX) memory says it was a white hardtail with a JO Burt paint job involving loads of tiny multi-coloured flowers trailing from the headtube.

The memory has been rattling round my head as I have an urge to reproduce it, but could do with some photos first.

Cheers!

 

[kingroon]

Wasn't it a Zinn?

 

[pete_mcc]

Yup, it was Jo's own zinn, white with white porc. Seem to remember that they were tiny vinyl flower stickers rather than paint, thousands of them!

 

[kingroon]

It was a great bike eh.. lugged crown, curved bladed forks?

I remember those stickers being on an MBUK sticker sheet weren't they? I think my Cannondale SM1000 got given the "Mint" effect..

 

[Max P]

I just read that original article in an early 90's MBUK last week - they showed the front of the frame noting the paint must have taken ages...! Unfortunately I have packed it away now with all my other old mags...

 

[deelam]

that's what I remember - that it was all hand painted!

I remember the free stickers too - looked cack on my black kona!

 

[scant]

JoB is often on STW. mail him & ask if hes got any pics

 

[Simon]

I mailed Jo about this a few years ago - he's not got any photos, it was all done with hundreds (thousands?) of little flower stickers. The bike got stolen, as did a car they put them on - so thieves obviously have some taste. Jo was kind enough to send me a dozen or so sheets of the stickers, so at some point I'm planning on getting a graphics shop to make me up a bunch.

 

[Max P]

I'll try and dig out the mag again...

 

[tangent]

Flowered Up

The feature had Jo & Mint Sauce (in a cardboard cut out style) being interviewed down on Brighton seafront - I recall a pic of said Zinn with its white porcs where Jo was in the midst of doing a big skid turn, and there was a comedy white line of chalk drawn on the tarmac...it was a sweet bike, think the mag was a summer or spring special from around the early 90s...?