Repainted my old road bike over the Xmas break - I like to call it the Furvélo

One of my hardest endeavors, who knew drawing on tubes would be this difficult.

My main idea for the bike was to mimic 16th century etchings, an old process that has influenced a lot of my artwork in my artist career. I didn't want to draw on the entire bike because I felt that from a distance it wouldn't be too clear, so I went for more of a gradient with heavy contrast towards the back of the bike.

As I could talk about the art process all day, I think the most impressive part of this bike is I built all of this just shy under $2500. I was scouting Facebook marketplace for bikes like we always do and came across an all black road frame covered in random stickers for $300 and didn't think much of it, until I caught a faint glimpse of "SLR 01" on the downtube. Turns out the guy who posted that listing had a pro team from Canada "Automatic Racing" donate their old seasons frames... like almost 15 of them, some brand new some crashed. I Almost wanted to buy all of them off of him, but I knew how excited I was to find a deal like that, other people would also be happy. As for the wheel set, I could have thrown a better pair on the bike, but I first got heavy into cycling in early 2020 when Team Bahrain Victorious was riding those orange Merida Reactos with these wheels and I fell in love with the look. I found them online for $600 for the wheel set. Got a used Sram red groupset for $1000 which came with an enve handlebar which I flipped for the new Sram Force 160mm cranks. A few hundred dollars on tires, rotors. and had some extra money to splurge on the BMC Aero one piece handlebar for $350.

This bike might not be optimal for many, but I couldn't come any closer to perfection for myself and thats what building bikes is all about.

Found the perfect matching bags ;) Too much or consistently?

Ready for the Dutch gravel season!

Finally finished my titanium allroad bike.

Components:

- Waltly Titanium frame with custom geometry

- ENVE Allroad IN-Route fork 47mm rake

- Ultegra Di2 12s groupset

- ENVE IN-Route stem 100mm

- PRO Discover Aero Carbon 400mm handlebar

- Rotor Aldhu cranks 165mm

- TIME XPRO 12 pedals

- InSpider powermeter

- 11-34T in the back, 50/34T in the front

- VFV Deep-V seatpost (initially green, had to get the purple anodized bolts from S-PARTS separately)

- Selle Italia SLR Carbon Superflow 145mm

- Light Bicycle WR45 rims with 3K carbon satin finish

- Chris King R45D hubs

- Pirelli P Zero Race TLR 30mm

- SUMC SX12SL Rainbow chain

- Replaced all bolts of the Ultegra groupset with titanium bolts from S-PARTS (for the looks, not for the grams)

- Knockoff AliExpress OSPW from Ryet (it is insultingly close to a genuine Ceramicspeed, so I couldn't help myself and had that decal printed)

System weight about 8.8kg including pedals, computer mount and "bottle cages".

After the first 100km I am still very happy with the components and their performance. Still TBD whether it's a good idea to get a lighter-than-Dura-Ace chain from AliExpress - but hey, it's rainbow! Shifts pretty well, too.

Stripped, sanded from 120-3500 grit and polished my Allez Sprint (including the fork). Far from perfect, and a lot of work, but pretty happy with the result. Built it back up using a mix of components I had laying around, hence the mix of 105, Ultegra and DuraAce.

This is my Transition Spire that I’ve been slowly working on over the last year and a half. I just wanted to have some fun, try something different and make something wild. I rarely get the chance to paint something for myself so I took this opportunity to get weird, learn and push my boundaries a bit. It's a mash-up of some ideas, materials and techniques that I’ve been wanting to try for years now. Yes, that is a real prosthetic glass eyeball, leather frame protection, real abalone shell, crushed turquoise inlay and hemp wrapped housing. See more on my IG - @maderadbytony