The 199? GT Safety Bicycle

[irontam]

Apologies to MacRetro members who have come across all this over the past six months in various threads, but I thought I'd pull it all together into one place.

Having found myself mountain bikeless last year* I picked up the following cheaply on gumtree, a 90's GT frame of unknown parentage, powder coated black with shabby stickers applied.

* Previous Giant MTB thieved by a scurrilous little brother.

Spent some time deliberating what to do with it, finally settling on the following theme (sorry GT purists...)

Spent several hours on the computer honing the design, turned into decals, bought some airfix enamel paint, pinstripe tape and came up with this:

My Decal work is a little rough round the edges, poor choice of white rather than transparent backing. Additionally I didn't lacquer up after, which would come back to haunt me

To be continued...

 

[Mattxthexratt]

i really like the look of that, id have done the frame matt black rather than gloss though

 

[merckx]

what tha :?:

 

[coomber]

Like the decals.. but dont get the safety bike joke?

 

[MikeD]

I like what you're doing here I think if it were me I'd have to redo the decals on a transparent backing, though. Those raggedy white edges would really bug me. Love the design, though

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_bicycle for anyone not up to speed)

 

[mechagouki]

My eyes!

 

[irontam]

I like what you're doing here I think if it were me I'd have to redo the decals on a transparent backing, though. Those raggedy white edges would really bug me. Love the design, though

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_bicycle for anyone not up to speed)

Ta - first time with Decals, as soon as they were on the frame realised my mistake.

Yes it does bug me.

 

[MADJEZ]

I have to say as a GT purist I actually like that !

I do like a bit of individuality in a bike.

In a similar vein I used to help out at the Goodwood Revival where the
best way to get around is by bike. I was going to try to knock up a
modern(ish) bike that looked like it was from the 1930-50s. You've gone
a bit further.

PS The 'Safety Bicycle' was the first diamond framed cycle with wheels
the same size (as opposed to the penny farthing).

 

[MADJEZ]

PPS How did you do decals ? where they just printed onto sticky sheets
(paper?) or something more hi-tech.

And if I were you to go really Victorian I think if you painted the end cap
in the same colour scheme that would look cool.

 

[sylus]

looks like you should be wearing a stetson and riding around with tassles coming out of the handlebar ends whilst shouting whoop whoop