[Closed] Best paint job ever

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...

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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.

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this wolfhound from mtbr.com
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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?
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On Road:
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Off Road - Can't find a pic of an old steel one!
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Kevin Dangerous's Bamboo Fablon.

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

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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:

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Klein Gator Adroit, stunning
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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...

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Flowery Zinn...

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(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! 😆

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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]I brush painted a Grifter once.[/i]

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.

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no contest - Tinker Jurez's Klein Attitude night storm
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Slightly more recent...I did like the retro airplane finish on this 2005 Cannondale...

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klein moonrise for me. followed closely by plum crazy

the kona cinder cone from early 90s (93?) that was titanium grey into dark green.

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Any matt ti frame.

Any predominantly white frame.

Cav's WW2 bomber inspired paintjob complete with kills and rivets

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98 Klein Attitude Pro

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Different strokes eh!

Liking the variety!

Funny how we're all looking at OLD bikes rather than current models.

Take a look at Mike Cottys Cottydale :O)

http://www.bikemagic.com/gear-news/mike-cottys-custom-cannondale-scalpel/6547.html

Glow in the dark is where it's at:
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'Best' I had was a 1991 Diamondback Topanga white and balck flecks with flouro pinkm highlights - awesome!

My bro has the Apex with the white frame and black paint splashes on.

I can't find a pic, but the Boulder Starship with flames was pretty awesome.

... So were the Steel Raleigh DH bikes with flames... so awesome that I got my Patriot [url= ]airbrushed[/url] by the same bloke.

Funny how we're all looking at OLD bikes rather than current models.

There's quite a good reason for that...

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Truly nasty. Really really horrible. Billboards on wheels. Urrgh.

Cannondale have had the odd quirky paintjob; remember this 'Full Wood' design from a few years back?

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Wasn't there a bloke on here ages ago, had a custom leaf pattern on his bike? I thought that looked great.

The Kaws paint job for trek was pretty out there:

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1998 Trek OCLV 9900 Team Issue; Dark purple from one side, bright yellow from the other. Mine is going on ebay next week, absolute classic!

Here's my klein palomino,called "indian ocean blue" or somesutch,stunning in the right light,just plain purple at other times
www.pinkbike.com/photo/3737717

Who makes that red TT bike?

I liked the old Kona paint jobs like the kona chute/stinky/stab etc.

There was also an old kona called a pahoehoe, from around 99 which was a copper/bronze sort of colour with matching Z2's, it was well nice

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Can't find a better picture of it, but the Vicious Cycles spiderbike:

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And they do loads of other custom options. Not as slick as some companies, but high on charm.

http://picasaweb.google.com/VCIYCCILOEUSS/ViciousPaintExamples#

Who makes that red TT bike?

D'you know what, i'm struggling to work it out myself...

In recent years, the new Treks (particularly the bronze/white Remedies) look 'mazin!

Always loved the classic Mountain Goat Whiskeytown Racer:

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And now they've started making them again, with a custom paint option, I am rather tempted:

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The other end of the scale...

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Vicious Cycles do some nuts stuff. They offer full colour photo finish option (or at least they did). I loved the Peacock Groove Punisher bike they did, although I can't find a picture. Erik does some cool stuff as well. The G'n'R disc wheel is pretty nuts (and NSFW).

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http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/projectone/model/madone59/

I think these guys have the jump on everyone when it comes to "custom" at the moment

I do hanker after this from time to time -

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But recently I saw this on Retrobike, which sorta blew me away -

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naked

stevenieve= that spesh is truly gopping! 😯

i always like Salsa paint jobs...

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Always wanted one of the above.

I got my switchback PC'd to match the ruller that was on my desk while I was deciding on a colour!

flickr->thisisnotaspoon for pics (of the bike not the ruller unfortunately)

Going to get a 456 PC'd the colour of of an LCD screen and get the decals made up like calculator numerals. It'll be mint!

guybe - Member

Klein Gator Adroit, stunning

That's the best one out of the lot

My mate did this him self when the racing stopped due to the foot & mouth outbreak in 2001.. 8)

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JoB - I absolutely adored that Zinn with the flowers - do you still have it?

Love that pic Al,

Early Kleins mmm

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'89 Ascent EX. Lovely pearlescent white with a smoke finish.
Similar vintage;
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'90 Cinder Cone splatter

Endorfin do a road bike painted with TDF newspaper cuttings

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those 97/98 konas were awesome
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I'm sure there was a Maverick or a Klein or something on here a few years back that was custom painted with goldfish

It was ace

(goes off to track down a pic)

Klein Attitude