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05-27-2008, 05:21 PM
| | Yoyo's Hurt When You Crank It Into Your Face | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Cleveland Ohio | | | Why are all cycling aftermarket parts black or silver what happened to anodized parts
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Why.. Why must I conform to just black or silver for my bike..
I wish companys like Kooka still existed.. What was wrong with personalizing your bike to a color scheme you liked..
Lately everything is just black or silver and its driving me mad..
Rant Over..
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05-27-2008, 06:21 PM
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05-27-2008, 06:21 PM
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05-27-2008, 06:39 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | It could be a shift from machined to cast aluminum. Cast parts anodize poorly. The black is probably a powder coating. |
05-27-2008, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fdeck  It could be a shift from machined to cast aluminum. Cast parts anodize poorly. The black is probably a powder coating. | This.
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05-27-2008, 09:59 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | Digging just a bit deeper, a lot of parts are using e-coating: http://www.btr-plating.com/e_coat_page.htm
From what I have seen, this is only available in black. Having seen the parts up close and personal, it is quite attractive. |
05-27-2008, 11:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | What are you talking about? Are you shopping from an "in stock" store? Everything in the past few years has gone UP in colour availability not down. The thing I'm pissed about is the companies overcharging for TI when it's clearly not that much more expensive. So I have to make my own.
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05-28-2008, 06:18 AM
| | Yoyo's Hurt When You Crank It Into Your Face | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Cleveland Ohio | | | no im talking all the companys, its nearly impossible to find Red brake levers besides Pauls Love Levers or Maguras which im not buying hydraulic disc brakes when I already have them.
Chris King makes anodized parts but there uber $$
Please direct me into who is making all these parts you speak of? Websites would be nice.
And I agree on the Ti part.. There ridiculous anymore.
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05-28-2008, 10:13 AM
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Applications Engineer, QSC Audio | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Costa Mesa, Calif. | | | Bicycling magazine once ran an article on DIY anodizing, with instructions on making the solution, using a car battery charger, protecting surfaces you don't want to anodize, etc. That was 30+ years ago, but you might be able to find the article or similar info on the web.
The anodizing process creates a microsopically pitted surface area, then you can dip the part in dye to color it. The pits hold the dye; without them, the dye would just run off the surface. |
05-28-2008, 10:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Sunny St. John's, Newfoundland | | Dangerboy and Straitline both do different colours of anodized brake levers, stems and such. http://www.straitlinecomponents.com/ http://www.dangerboyusa.com/
I have Dangerboy levers for my Juicy 7s and they rock.
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05-28-2008, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Bob Lee (QSC) Bicycling magazine once ran an article on DIY anodizing, with instructions on making the solution, using a car battery charger, protecting surfaces you don't want to anodize, etc. That was 30+ years ago, but you might be able to find the article or similar info on the web.
The anodizing process creates a microsopically pitted surface area, then you can dip the part in dye to color it. The pits hold the dye; without them, the dye would just run off the surface. | It really isn't that hard, a friend of mine did it for some motorcycle parts.
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05-28-2008, 11:24 AM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | The desire for anodized parts faded along with the desire for neon green/pink/yellow jerseys. |
05-28-2008, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by EricF The desire for anodized parts faded along with the desire for neon green/pink/yellow jerseys. |
LOL yeah, i was about to bring that up, too.. 
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05-28-2008, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by EricF The desire for anodized parts faded along with the desire for neon green/pink/yellow jerseys. | Does that mean that my pink anodized bar ends are passe? 
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05-28-2008, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark Reccord Does that mean that my pink anodized bar ends are passe? | If you have the jersery to match, you can claim it's "retro".  |
05-28-2008, 12:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Chicago | | | the answer is because that's what sells.
what kind of bike are we talking about here? |
05-28-2008, 12:04 PM
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05-28-2008, 12:30 PM
| | | | Trials- and street-riding parts often offer a palette of colors. Companies do it when they know customers will buy it.
If you're into mountain biking, some of those specialised parts might actually fit your needs.
I'm thinking TryAll, FSA, Echo, Zoo!, Koxx. |
05-28-2008, 07:57 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | Here's another monkey wrench in your mechanism: Hexavalent chromium: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?...0&DISPLAY=DESC
I am not a chemist, but it appears that some of the newer processes may be more regulatory-friendly than anodizing. I have watched some of these technologies come and go. There has always been a tug-of-war between machining and casting, as each processe develops new design and production tools.
Primitive CAD systems and CNC machining led to CNC bike parts made from alloys that can be finished by anodizing, such as 6061. With advanced 3D solid modeling CAD and lower cost mold tooling, the pendulum swung back to casting. But casting alloys contain more magnesium, resulting in formation of a "white rust" of magnesium oxide. Meanwhile, (increasingly international) environmental regulations no doubt played a role in driving towards newer finishing technologies as well.
And so forth. |
05-28-2008, 08:53 PM
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