In a message dated 9/10/2004 9:54:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, smwillis@verizon.net writes:
<< I hung the bike up and later the customer called and asked me to do something to it and all my thoughts about that new decal set went out the window. I lightly clamped the frame did the job and took it back down. Oops no letter S on the bike. >>
Ha! I empathize, we have been through that many times here at CDO. Even clear coated frames can suffer under the most seemingly-careful clamping.Now we absolutely never never clamp a bike on any painted portion, either hanging the nose of the saddle (on a built bike) over the really-made-high Park stands (or my Ultimate Pro stand I use for event support) OR by a seat post (I keep a supply of all the sizes on hand to insert in frames.)
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