After many adventures and after threatening to do so for a few years now the King of Mercia was stripped back to its frame early this year in preparation for being repainted.
This refurb was delayed due to family stuff going on that meant I needed to watch the finances but also I found that once I pulled the other King of Mercia out the loft to tide me over until this one came back, I sort of lost the urgency to get this one done if that makes sense.
Anyway after sitting boxed for too long and with the repaint organised at the end of last year, and after some delay, it finally went off at the start of July. It is being painted by two guys who I can only truly describe as artists, Dave Colbeck who will strip and fix dents etc before putting on the various primers, paint coats and clear coats as well as sorting all the paint itself along with the fine talents of Martin Battison who will sort the decals, and do all the lug lining, filling etc . Between them they put out such impressive work that after watching for a long time the beautiful frames they bring back to life that it was an easy decision who were the best people to do the Mercians new livery.
I have been away in Germany visiting friends with the family and have been getting updates about the KOMs new livery.
Here are a couple of the incremental shots taken over the last 10 days or so.
Already looking brilliant so really can't wait for it to be built back up, but now I need some somewhat classier gear to do it justice J
I will no doubt have to put on the stuff I have been squirrelling away for it over the last few years and get those Wolber GTA2 rims laced up soon.
Photo of dents to be repaired. 1 on the seat tube panel and 1 on the top tube from a handlebar tap
Dents fixed and etch primed
Filler primed
Silver base coat with white panels done
Several coats of Candy Green done to get just the right shade
and that's where we are up to ............
It’s already looking pretty special to me and will look amazing once Martin works his magic on it with lining the lugs and filling in all the bits and pieces in white
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