Fixie Project - Part IV

Part IV in this riveting (and grinding and painting) series of blog posts about my fixie conversion project.

I'm doing a few things at once in this project, but the most visible progress has been the painting of the frame. In a previous entry, I showed you the frame in its original paint with all the bits stripped off. Well here it is after a few coats of grey primer from a rattle can.

Below you can see it in the final colour, Dulux sky blue. These shots show the horizontal dropouts quite well; hopefully they're deep and horizontal enough to provide easy adjustment of the chain tension.



The fork has received the same attention; sanding back to bare metal (or at least old paint that's in good condition), grey primer, then the colour.

The last steps will be a final sanding with #1000 wet-and-dry, then a coat of clear spray, again from a rattle can.

Somewhere in there, I'll apply some nice frame stickers I bought on eBay.