Bicycle Makeover

Last month with the help of my parents I gave my bicycle a makeover. I've had this bike for a few years now. It's in great shape but I wasn't crazy about the color and the stickers on it. I didn't like the big logo on it and definitely would prefer if it were a little bit more me. Here is a before shot...

I had two ideas in my head for what I wanted to do. One was to paint it a ton of different colors, and buy mismatched tires and the other was all white with brown accents. After a trip to the store to check out my options I ended up chosing Krylon paints in Celery and Ivory for my bike, which is pretty close to my all white option. The colors looked completely different on the cans but when it came right down to it, the are fairly similar on my bike. So I picked up a bright blue color (Rust-Oleum Satin Lagoon) for my wheels. It was the perfect pop of color, even though I had no plans to add one. Here are some in progress photos, we hung all the pieces from the ceiling of my dad's garage. 

A few days and a bunch of coats later it was ready to be put back together. I bought myself a new brown saddle, some handle bar grips and a pretty little basket. I was in love at this point but knew I had to find some brown tires. I was even so obsessed with having brown tires I completely forgot about getting matching pedals.

A week or so later I bought brown pedals and finally found some brown tires on ebay. It was quite a hunt, I had a hard time finding brown tires in the right size that didn't cost a pretty penny. At one point I kind of gave up and just figured I'd put the black seat and grips back on instead of the new brown ones. Luckily one last search of the internet left me with "rust" colored tires and I figured that was close enough.

Here she is all done! I am just absolutely smitten. It's such a great improvement from that blue bike with logo stickers covering the body. All the brown is just perfect. I'm really glad I finally found brown tires because I feel like those are what really seal the deal.

Isn't she pretty? Every time I walk into the garage and see it I smile. I have yet to do more than ride around the yard on her. It's been disgustingly hot the last week or two and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little out of shape so I'd rather not go on a super hot day. I look forward to cruising around the neighborhood and exploring all the local bike trails.
xoxo