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Donatello Gets His Colour

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Today I spent the afternoon at Bruce’s place doing the last bit of sanding on my bike to get it ready to be painted! My nails and skin on my hands are completely ruined but I don’t even care because the paint job looks awesome! Huge thanks to Bruce for doing such a fantastic job! I am soooo happy with it! :)

The colour getting mixed!

It took quite a few coats of paint to get the bike totally covered and looking perfect! Apparently the paint I picked was rather thin!

A wee video of Bruce painting my handle bars!

Watching! :)

The bike got a final gloss coat to give it an awesome shine!

Next up is the expensive part! Getting all my purple parts for the bike! I am so excited though, it is all coming along brilliantly! :)

Ben finally picked a colour for his bike. Within the space of a few days he has gone from wanting grey to silver to orange to blue to finally deciding on purple! It is a sweet colour! It’s called Morpheus.

Perfect Green

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I have been to the Total Body Shop and picked my paint colour!! After looking through heaps of colour swatches I have finally picked my perfect green!

 

I did a bit of a test with the paint to see what it would look like on and then took it to Cycle Science  to match it against the purple purple rims I want! I think it looks pretty sweet!

Think the bike is going to get painted this weekend!!

The Hard Part

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I spent last weekend at Speedtech sanding down my BMX! It was hard and took ages! So far it has been the worst part of doing up a BMX!

Bam also did some grinding for me to cut some stuff off the bike that was “not cool” (Thank you Bammy) :)

Sanding!! I ruined my nails soooo bad! :! ( haha

Bam doing what he does awesome!

Next up is to pick my paint colour for the frame, fork and handle bars! I can’t wait!! :)

Project Donatello – The BMX

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So I have put a wee plan together on what I want to do for the bike to give you all an idea on what the final product will look like! I have also decided that because I can’t afford to do up a car I am going to invest a bit more into the bike and use it to ride to work on!

I have also given this project a name – taking it back old school cartoon style! It’s called Donatello from the Teenage Ninja Turtles!

The BMX Arrival

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Around the end of last year my good friend Taryn from iheartstance did up a BMX. She got the frame painted pink and got a pink chain and pink handle bar grips for it too. As you can imagine i totally fell in love with it! It got me thinking that maybe I wanted to do something like this to have as a kind of hobby. So I started watching the BMX category on Trade Me to try and find a old bike that was in good condition and not too expensive! Not long ago I found one in Palmerston North and picked it up a few weeks ago! I am so excited to get working on it!

Won’t be long until we will have our bike gang Taryn! haha :)

Photos thanks to Ben Silcock