seasick said:
Very kuhl. Have you detailed this anywhere to share with the rest of the class? If not, please do tell. How did the process go and where are the darn pictures!
This sounds like a winter project just waiting to happen. Muchas gracias!
Looking for a winter project eh? Well, I started stripping the paint on the Fly literally the day I received it. It was a total pain in the ass, estimate your time and then multiple by 10 if you do it yourself. You would save a lot of time if the rear triangle is already burnished. It was basically lots of Jasco paint stripper combined with lots of scraping with a plastic scraper and any other thing I could find to get in all the nooks and crannys. Intercede that with paint and Jasco goo everywhere, many, many trips to the water faucet to rinse off the stripper when I could no longer stand it on my skin-you get the picture.
I checked with Foes beforehand to make sure it was Ok.
The easy part was getting it burnished, $65 and a trip to Gardena, CA and two days later wahla! I had it done where Foes does its anodizing and burnishing. I think Turner uses them as well. I forget the name but if pushed I could dig it up.
Anyway, the Fly was a Christmas present and I already had an RFX. I sold the RFX a few months later and bought a 5-spot. The Fly now has a pushed Fox and a Shiver-sweet! Waiting on brakes for the Fly before I can get the first ride on the Push. The RFX is one of a kind and literally a frame that you could keep for a very, very long time and be happy with. (Yeah, that Macrider is our local Turner & Push Rep. Kinda like that unoffical Jack-in-the-box guy or whatever.
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Heres the token pic when I had both.
