why is Specialized better then this guy's frame???

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    .8down Active Member

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    Giant has a fuirty color warranty?
     
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    Evil Chocula ah buh bye now

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    Yes, fruity paint jobs void the warranty. Its unfourtunate in this day and age that a number of large bicycle makers are still not tolerant of fruity colored bikes in the workplace.
     
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    I am sad...
     
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    Evil Chocula ah buh bye now

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    As am I my friend, as am I. I dream of a day when fruity colored Reigns are afforded the same liberties as thier more hetero-colored bretheren.
     
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    if we only got white in the US... check out this white frame the Brit's get

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    a bubb on mtbr cracked his old VT frame so they gave him a new 08 reign!
     
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    Evil Chocula ah buh bye now

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    Thats hot. I'm stuck with ghey tribal designs.




     

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    yea, the paint on my 05 didn't last long with how often i crash... that and i always ride with platform pedals and my shoes rub the rear triangle.
     
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    Does Giant not have authorized paint places?

    You void the warranty by custom painting a Specialized as well, unless you go to one of their authorized places.

    Just FYI.

    If I keep my Demo, as soon as the warranty period is over and I have some $$, I'm going black/pink.
     
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    they don't have any authorized places... one guy with a reign got his frame powdercoated by some random shop and his frame cracked or bent i don't remember.. most likely from the heating process for the powdercoat. its been a year now that my frames been coated and no problems at all, i did take it to olympic tho.
     
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    TURNERob Get your own avatar idea

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    You just need to do some hunking then ;)
     
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    last time i tried to hunk i busted a finger... i think i upset Dale since i was hangin out with Craig and he sent bad vibes to Utah
     
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    you must give me info on this place..if I buy that trance frame I may want to "customize" it.
     
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    any place to anodize you may know of? Foofighter and I were just talking about it and it might be a good way to go too.
     
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    depending on the material of the welds, the ano doesn't come out the same on the welds as it does on the frame material... locally, you can try http://www.embee.com but they're pricks...

    we use Hi-tech coating in Orange for the hard ano on our suspension pieces

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    if you can strip and polish the frame first and then get it ano'd it will come out a lot nicer
     
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    wouldn't they sandblast it similar to powder coating? I assume some prep work is involved on both processes, because the bike is currently painted or what have you.
     
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    My friend rides an '07 Epic with a pink paintjob. Specialized made a limited run of 'em...

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    You've got to have skill to pull off that kind of a bike. He raced the Worlds (U23) in Spain, so he's earned the right to rock the pink bike. Every now and then, Fred's will try and talk shit, but he simply responds by dropping them. It's always best to let your legs do the talking.
    :bang:
     
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    Chicks can ALWAYS rock pink. I'm not worried about that.

    JimN used to ride a pink Dean SS. I don't believe he's ever raced a World's, but he can hold his own.
     
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    Hopefully they would chemically strip the current paint. That is what Olympic did to my frame prior to powdercoating it. Sandblasting can enlarge pivot bores, bearing seats, etc. and generally screw up tolerances elsewhere on the frame. On bikes with thinner tubes, you also run the risk of weakening the frame.

    There was a thread on the Turner forum a while back about someone who had some problems after getting his frame sandblasted and PC'd.

    http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=219666
     
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    Pink is a badass color, plain and simple.
     

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