Re: [CR]Baylis Frame on Ebay!

Marty,

It is as stated, around 1987. During that time there was a certain trend in bike paint jobs that started amongst the triathlon crowd; a group wh o had very little "traditional" cycling background. I was in a phase at the time of experimenting with various things paintwise, including paint ing part of ones bike to match their cycling garb. This frame wasn't for a tri-guy, but the original owner saw some of the stuff I was doing in my shop and wanted something "a little unusual". This is what we came up with. As usual, the photos don't really do justice to the actual overal l effect of this paint job. Believe it or not, this is one of the tamer things I did at the time; most of the strange things were done on repain ts of everything except bikes I built myself. There are only 2 or 3 Bayl is frames with paint jobs that are not more typical of what one generall y sees in my work. Most of the time I focused on creative or unusual col or combinations; like the bike that Lou Deeter was attracted to from the Bicycling Mag article from around '83. I still do the odd color thing t oday. I like it and find it sets my work apart visually from most other painters.

Once my actual website is up I will dig up some photos of some of the "f unny" stuff I did during that time and put them in my gallery. There is a completely zebra striped bike, an unusual flower motif, and a few oth er oddities.

I would consider the bike on eBay a piece of my "painting history and ev olution", so to speak.

Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA