RE:
The prettiest bike I've ever seen, bar none, was a pearl white Dave
Moulton
> > frame, painted by Cyclart, formerly owned by listmember Ritzmon and
> > now
oned
> > by one Wm. Preucel of Palo Alto who rides it to Colorado or Tuscon
> > every couple weeks. This bike had 4 or 5 colors faded under the
> > pearl, from
blue
> > to red to violet, when you got it out in the sun it was DAZZLING.
> > Absolutely the prettiest paintjob I've ever seen.
> >
I'd wondered what happened to that one. I painted it for myself and after a tiff with Dave Moulton after he hired an attorney to sue me for replicating his decals, I was so disappointed with Dave, I could not feel good about riding it, so I sold to Mark Ritz. Too bad it was a great bike. Dave had built it for me as an apology for a previous misunderstanding. Mark bought it the day I was about to cut it into small pieces and ship it back to Dave.
Glad to hear it's still out there turning heads. The concept of that finish is that it has NO real color on it, it used only white faded ever so gradually form to bottom and then a rainbow of 5 different pearl powders mixed with clear were sprayed, also fading imperceptibly from the front to the back. The result is that no two square inches of the bike are the same shade, yet it all blends so subtly you cannot tell where things change. I've never done another one, although I'd be glad to.
Jim JFC Cunningham
CyclArtist
Vista, CA