32sixteen :: Repair or Repaint

August 16th, 2005

Repair or Repaint

A couple years ago I bought a 1993 Rocky Mountain Hammer as a turbo-training bike. The poor thing was shod with slicks straight away. Then it underwent the miles of torture with me.

Two years of turbo-work and winter commuting had taken their toll.

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The paintwork was dull and showing the effects of the salt. So earlier this week I stripped it down, and gave the whole thing a going over with T-Cut and then Turtlewax.

I took a few snapshots as I built it back up.

The Finished Article - Click For More

Seeing as I’m not training at the moment and it would be handy to be have a bit more off-road capability, even though most miles will still be on the black stuff, I slapped a pair of semi-slicks on.

Posted by Nick on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 at 12:00 pm | Filed under stuff, gears
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