To rattlecan or to spraypaint?

look closely - someone paints skulls on exit signs, wonder who that could be.

Do you know how much time is involved in spraypainting things? of recent I took it upon myself to get the paint system at work dialed in , it seemed that after many years of neglect there was not a system in place to get good paint results, after all, we have a nice paint booth, fan extraction etc, but basic things were not in place, clean air supply, decent paint guns, a set up of base colours and chemicals. So spending away with the company money gave me an excuse to learn about stuff along the way. I decided to go with the Automotive PPG paint system, I have seen this used in the past at other jobs and it has a ton of colour options from OEM vehicles. The location of a paint supplier was also critical and luckily there's a PPG place about 5 miles from my work and has some well sorted peps to help me out. So today i'm finally getting this dialed and should be producing some nice results in the next few weeks, oh and also bike frames seem to fit in our paint booth at work, who would have guessed!

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Team Beer Bowling invite 2009

This Friday night was well sorted , the 2009 Team Beer Bowling Invitational. 10 of Portlands cycle teams were invited to compete in a night of ten pin.

Dressed in white painters suits (coveralls) representing with Yakima Logos and Spray painted skulls, gold chains and gold $$ signs, we managed to win Best Costume trophy. (remember these are bike guys so they think they have to wear spandex everywhere)

After making it through to the 1/4 finals we got closed down by Bike City Racing before the semi finals, only by a few points (I think less than 50 total game). We lost to a team which included a pro bowler, read wrist support, own custom ball and big dollop of lame.

We got a lot of props for our unique warm up jives, which include Lane Lame Push ups and Striker Saucy Situps before our turn to roll.

Team Ironclad won the night, with strike after strike - with a lot of talk on the street about an outside ringer being employed ;)

update* the guys rolling were actually Obra racers - Ironclad wanted to make sure that was known.

So it's true, Yakima Vigilantes have balls and can roll em.



Oh yeah and teh superbowl was this weekend... nuff said ... bunch of loosers.