Forked! AKA; painting lugs is hard!

[AngryScientist]

I have been tearing down and rebuilding my Serotta travel bike, which had an older, pretty beat up Winwood carbon fork on it.

Cruising ebay, I happened to find a steel fork made by Paul Sadoff of RL. Scooped it up, stripped it, and painted it, including contrasting lug work. Man, it takes patience and a steady hand to paint lugs.

Anyway, this frame is totally beat up from the coupler install, DIY touch ups and lots of TSA gorillas from thousand of miles of travel, but it looks good from 15'

Looking forward to some Spring miles!

[C40_guy]

Looks good Angry!

You'll be so happy to have that Winwood fork off your bike. Do you have plans for the fork? Fork toss? Maybe a back scratcher? Anything but get it near another beloved bicycle.

(Can you tell I'm not a Winwood fan? I hated my LS Blue Ridge until I rode it with a different fork...)

[AngryScientist]

Originally Posted by C40_guy

Looks good Angry!

You'll be so happy to have that Winwood fork off your bike. Do you have plans for the fork? Fork toss? Maybe a back scratcher? Anything but get it near another beloved bicycle.

(Can you tell I'm not a Winwood fan? I hated my LS Blue Ridge until I rode it with a different fork...)

interesting that you say that; I thought he fork rode ok, and it's been all over the place climbing, fast descending, etc. I do hope you're right and the bike will be even better now!

[dcama5]

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Nick,
That fork looks great. You did a great job. Paul Sadoff built me a fork for my black steel Alliance a month or so ago. I haven't ridden it yet due to the hip (which, by the way, got replaced today with a titanium and ceramic one). I would probably never try painting a fork anymore than I would try building one. Congrats on the successful paint job.

Dave

[AJosiahK]

Looks awesome Angry, love me some Paul Sadoff werks!

[benb]

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

interesting that you say that; I thought he fork rode ok, and it's been all over the place climbing, fast descending, etc. I do hope you're right and the bike will be even better now!

I never like a fork that's all over the place like that. I like the fork to be on locked down tight like the bike is on rails.

[Vientomas]

Good work! I am the absolute worst at painting anything!

A timely post as well as I am going to build up a travel bike and one potential is to have S&S couplers retrofitted to an existing frame as opposed to having a new frame built. Could you please let me know who did the installation of the couplers for you?

Thanks!

[Alistair]

That’s a good looking frameset (and fork).

[weisan]

Solid work, angry pal!

It's the learning process that counts, not always the end result.

[donevwil]

Looks good, what did you use? Rattle can prime then yellow and Testors red? Did you wet sand?

[AngryScientist]

Originally Posted by donevwil

Looks good, what did you use? Rattle can prime then yellow and Testors red? Did you wet sand?

Rustoleum all the way. Turns out that "sunburst yellow" and "safety red" are decent enough matches here. Spray primer. Spray 2x coats of yellow. Hand paint lugs. No sanding in between coats.

Bonus was a really nice pearl clear shot over the whole thing that really makes it pop in the sun. That was some automotive brand spray from the auto parts store.

[duff_duffy]

Nice!

[jamesdak]

Looks really good to me, enjoy!

[Matthew]

Looks good. Just can't beat a classic red to yellow fade Serotta.

[pdxharth]

Nice work. Painting a frame scares me. I’ve been trying to do one for years and can’t get it done. You really did a nice job on the fork - looks good from that angle.

Will it enable wider tires (if that even matters to you…)