Darn, I would have gotten some if they had cleats!

What a beautiful start!

Great to be included in your travels again. Thanks for taking the time to blog about it so we can all get in on the fun. I'll try to hold off reading it till the afternoon so I can have a beer with you along the way. Cheers !

Brent,

Thanks for your interesting in the new paint work. I really did not have much of a plan. My first step was to completely dismantle the bike. Everything off including headset and bottom bracket. The Friday is the five separate pieces that I attacked one at a time with a wire brush on a drill. This is tedious work and even then I need to use a small amount of paint remover on the welds. The Friday had been powder coated and it is tough stuff. I decided to stay with powder coating although purists would use an enamel paint. I stuck with powder coating because 1) the Friday gets abused in and out of suitcases and 2) it is half the price ( I paid $200) of a top notch bike frame painter and 3) powder coating shops are common - frame painters not so much. I am very happy with the results. As they always say about painting - 90% is in the prep. Good luck.

Thanks for reminding us about those suitcases. It reminds us that we still haven’t heard if UPS is going to compensate us for our loss.

Hey, when you ge home how about shipping them back to our hotel in Nice!

I am about to repaint my Dahon. Did you discuss your steps anywhere online? What paint technique did you use How? How did you replicate decals or did you?

Drink some wine for us! Looking forward to pithy entries and titillating photos!!

What a great sounds trip I look forward to following if

That route looks great. So much to look forward to! We will be cycling in Mallorca, May 14-26.

Great title, but which one of you is Maggie?

Love the title of the journal. Sounds like a wonderful trip! I look forward to hearing about cycling on Mallorca.