Best paint job ever

My fave is Fat Chances from around 1988 – each tube was painted a different colour.

I can't find a pic to show you though 🙁

What's yours?

Gotta be the orange chameleon with orange z1 BAMs, how i wanted one of those.

Few years ago (2002?) Klein did several different custom paint jobs at extra cost. These included a leopard skin pattern, a flowery pattern and a bones one…

I actually like the flowery one…just looked cool

Had a GT Tequesta about 20 years ago that came with a lovely blue cloud paint job with matching stem and fork.

I'm cheating on this one to be honest, but I love a matt Ti frame with some well placed anodised coloured bits 🙂

I am partial to an early 1991 GT paint job though 🙂

Hurst's butterfly bike was pretty.

this wolfhound from mtbr.com

I can't find a picture of it, but……………..

I thought Jo Burts white Zinn with flowers and white onza porcs was really cool 8)

50/50 Yo Eddy and the Colnago President with the sunflowers are probably my fave stock finishes. Orange's classic clockwork fade was pretty nice too.

some of the storck bikes are staggering, they did one a few years ago and it was truly incredible. bike did cost 8 grand though 😆 i would love a frame covered in ying&yang symbols 🙂

Gary Fisher'e Ltd Edition Grateful Dead bike was pretty cool, too lazy to find pics though.

I brush painted a Grifter once.
And when I say brush painted I mean everything, tyres, cables, chain the whole lot.
A horrible brown colour.
Looked ace.

Someone painted a wreck of a mountain bike in my Corps colours…that looked pretty cool in an ironic sort of way.

I also always liked the stars and stripes colour scheme on the Santa Cruz Roadsters.

Al – you mean this fat chance?

On Road:

Off Road – Can't find a pic of an old steel one!

Kevin Dangerous's Bamboo Fablon.

its got to be the original orange bikes that had little oranges all over them. old skool and classic!

I've always liked the Klein iridescent paintjobs; bit like TVRs.

There's not really enough surface area on most bike frames to do any serious artwork, but I do like a bit of vintage style lugwork:

Klein Gator Adroit, stunning

jimmy – no – each tube a different colour.

Pete – mahogany rear triangle?

guybe, I've been trying to find a picture of that very bike
lovely

Harlequin Fat Chance…

Flowery Zinn…

(not strictly a paint-job as it was white with lots of stickers)

Thanks Jo, loving it.

klein

Baddddest paint job yet….simple, but excellent.

I don't know why bike companies don't get more creative with paint jobs than they do. It seems daft spending all that time and money building something that handles like a dream only to paint it up all boring like.

That Klein is just…..Cool.

Al, Teak stem

Hard to beat that Klein even with full custom jobs. Dekerf used to do some wicked designs too.

why did trek kill klein??

Always really liked the odd Sunn paint jobs from about 1998/99 that had bubbles (the stickers actually had air pockets in them!) that stood out from the top-tube. Mentalist French! 😆

kliens – no contest

kliens – no contest

To this day, no matter how mental, nothing has surpassed the Klein paint..ever. It's the Pure simplicity of it that's the key for me…a sorted and never bettered idea. Super!

That Klein is flippin' fantastic. Really nicely done.

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I brush painted a Grifter once.

Me to, except I stuck to the frame (red) and bars (black). When I dripped black paint onto the (still wet) frame, I decided that it would become red with black spots 🙂

always wanted a klein.

Why has that klein got no pedals on it? Or is it one of those that only ever comes out of the garage/museum to get photo'd and drooled over? (what a waste) When I was a kid kleins were bike porn before I knew what porn was.

I remember that issue of MBUK, still can't manage to pick up a roast chicken from the ground while riding along, done the golf green skid, surprisingly never had chance to do the swimming pool diving board one.

Saw one of these when I was in France a while back, very simple but cool new york cabbie paint/sticker job, looked great.

no contest – Tinker Jurez's Klein Attitude night storm

Slightly more recent…I did like the retro airplane finish on this 2005 Cannondale…

klein moonrise for me. followed closely by plum crazy