{"id":4441,"date":"2016-01-20T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gonesouthblog.com\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2016-01-20T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T18:30:22","slug":"painted-and-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/painted-and-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted and Pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At last! The randonneuring bike I built with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rideeatcamp.com\/framebuilding-with-dave-bohm\/\">Dave Bohm<\/a> has a fresh coat of paint and is ready for more rolling fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-id=\"4438\" class=\"wp-image-4438\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-id=\"4436\" class=\"wp-image-4436\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-id=\"4435\" class=\"wp-image-4435\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-id=\"4437\" class=\"wp-image-4437\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-id=\"4434\" class=\"wp-image-4434\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since April I&#8217;ve been riding with the frameset unpainted. While the raw steel looks nice mottled with gold, copper, and silver, I knew that at some point I&#8217;d have to get it painted to preserve its life. When the El Ni\u00f1o rains started in October it was time to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lugged bikes look best wet painted, not powder coated. A powder coat, while durable, is too thick to emphasize the crisp lines of the lug edges. So the search began for a Bay Area painter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I left voicemails with a few painters in the area. Rick at D &amp; D Cycles in San Lorenzo was the first to return my call. And that&#8217;s how I decided on a painter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I brought the frameset to Rick and then we discussed what I was looking for: a dark blue for the fork and headtube and a lighter blue for the rest of the frame. Rick helped me choose the colors using some swatches and then I left My Precious with him to work his color magic. Two months later and My Precious came back, looking all the better for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process of building a steel frameset is finally complete. I&#8217;d recommend it to anybody who is even remotely interested. It&#8217;s such a treat to ride a bike that you made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last! The randonneuring bike I built with Dave Bohm has a fresh coat of paint and is ready for more rolling fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rideeatcamp.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}