Re: [CR]Cuevas--Back on the Road

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:20:36 -0800 (PST)
From: "Joe Starck" <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Cuevas--Back on the Road
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <8C8047019BC18B1-1774-BE02@FWM-D15.sysops.aol.com>
cc: loudeeter@aol.com

Lou, That crest is great. Afore I say more, if, lemme take it in, OK? Joe Starck Madison, Wisconsin )And I may as well add, I'm reminded of all the British films I've seen -- "IF" being one of many.( Joe Starck Madison, Wisconsin


--- loudeeter@aol.com wrote:


> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jonathan_adam_greene/album?.dir=4523&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jonathan_adam_greene/my_photos
>
>
> The link above will take you to pictures of the
> transformation of a Cuevas. Mark Poore bought this
> frame at the Cirque 2005 Charity Auction, traded it
> to me, and then Jonathan Greene took over the
> refinishing project. If you start in the middle of
> the pictures, you will see the original frame, then
> the chemical stripping, followed by primer, dent
> repair, and then at the top, the final painted frame
> with decals. The paint is Imron. Fernando Cuevas
> provided the decals. The Cuevas crest decals in
> particular were very old and brittle, requiring
> multiple attempts before getting it right. At the
> very bottom, you can see too dim pictures of a
> Cuevas I owned 15 years ago and sold to listmember
> J.D. Edwards of Albuquerque. Although the 'model'
> has chromed stays and fork, we were trying our best
> to match the ice blue paint with red in the cutouts
> that was on that one. It had a very unusual
> placement of the seattube crest on the back of the
> seattube so Jonathan replicated that placement.
>
> The frame is now built with mostly Super Record. A
> guy at my work laser etched a Cinelli stem with the
> correct font. The culmination of this project was
> the ride. I rode it twice this weekend. After the
> Saturday ride, I tweaked the saddle position just a
> bit and Sunday's ride was perfect. Lou Deeter,
> Orlando FL
>
>
> "Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come
> from overseas."
> --Keppel Enderbery
>
>
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