I am tending to dwell on these…
I looked and looked, and scoured the internet and finally found some photos that I had been looking for of the lovely creme colored tires that Schwalbe make. I have plans for them as well when outfitting the bike. This will all take a little time of course but, its a project. Aside
for most likely not building my own rim with the previous posts hub’s, its still a nice project for me. The way it looks however is that it will probably cost just as much too buy a new bike. The Dutch-styled bikes are somewhat LARGE for my smaller frame, and stand-over height is on the tips of my toes. It is the main reason I’ve decided to keep and upgrade my Yukon. These photos show a Retrovelo .. in a nice matching creme paint scheme. I hopefully will be getting started on this project soon. Probably taking on a second job if I can just to keep the project rolling..not to mention giving me something to do.
Don’t know what I’d do about a new paint job. Maybe just leave it alone since if I’m gonna go all-out on the components I maybe should on the paint job too. I tend to like things
simple. A good old fashioned American styled cruiser is great. I had once kept some old Bicycling magazines from the 80’s when I had a subscription to tell me how to ride a bike, that I had kept for historical purposes but, mostly to kept because some had nice design and color schemes and one had an article for custom paint. I liked the white one with kisses (as I recall it was for LeMond)…Cannondale had a great looking bike in gloss black with matte gold tones for the namesake with matte gold on the rims and chain links. I doubt I could find interesting additions such as those anymore. Truthfully they don’t build em’ like they used too….in many more ways then one.
photo’s are from cleverchimp flickr source
