[CR]Re: Marinoni repaints

(Example: History)

From: "David Bilenkey" <dbilenkey@sympatico.ca>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:10:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00f601c2194b$1534d220$9865fea9@bourke>
Subject: [CR]Re: Marinoni repaints

Stephen,

Thanks for your comments about Marinoni's repaints.

I recently built up a '76 Special. The former owner sweated badly and the top tube was rusted on the underside and he'd hacked off the top tube guides. He'd done an especially poor job on the guide near the seat tube and left a hole (!) in the tube. I filed the hole with a bit of scrap steel and lead soldered it into place. I quickly repainted it in the spray booth at work.

I wasn't expecting to do much with it, a decent beater or fixed gear bike, but I discovered I love it's ride (it was built as a custom crit bike I was told), and it has great tire clearances of all things, so I'm going to send it off to Marinoni later this year and have the tube replaced, guides on the top tube replaced and get a new coat of paint. I'm really hoping that they can paint it with a decal scheme that is like what it had originally.

Here's hoping.

David Bilenkey Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Barner [mailto:Steve@sburl.com]
> Sent: June 21, 2002 1:43 PM
> To: David Bilenkey; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR]Help with a Colnago ID

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> They don't use decals any
> longer, except for tubing decals, and don't have any left for repaints.
> They spray the lettering on now through some kind of computerized process.
> It looks real good, but the lettering is single color--no outlining. They
> use the special repaint tubing decals supplied by the tubing manufacturer.