Sugar Cayne
Today’s Bike Of The Day is a 2011 Supercross Mini and it’s looking real fresh! This one was sent in by Scott Melanson who built is up for his son. The custom paint job on the frame and fork really make this bike stand out. Be sure to give this bike a rating via the sliders below for the Bike Of The Month/Year charts.
My son saw a Full Suspension Bike in a DH Pit video, specifically Jordan Williams from last year, and absolutely loved it; partially because it was like Minecraft and also because of the color impact. So I screen shot it and designed my own techno-pattern to cut on my work’s vinyl cutter for application.
Completely stripped the original paint through a Powder-Coating source via Chemical Stripping. Debadged and Smoothed out the Fork with a bunch of Sanding, getting rid of nicks/scratches. Then did a Hot Chili Red Paint with a Red Anodized Spray Fade that transitioned from the headset back and down and then from the rear stays forward. I used a Bermuda Blue Metallic Paint to make the main color in the center, spraying directly overly the pixelated mask.
I probably spent somewhere around 5 Hours in Paint, 8 hours in Masking and Unmasking, then another hour in White Decal Application (all decals had to be made by myself since Supercross nor any of their official vendors had the design files for the EVO-iS, so I scanend them in and measured them/redesigned them to fit the bike from ones I heat removed from the original frame before chemical stripping). Funny enough, I cut a few of the white squares (especially for the back) to cover up some paint that had peeled and did the same technique for the forks/head area in painted blue vinyl. The Bright White was picked to match all of the Insight Accents and then I sealed everythign with about 5 coats of 2K Clear. ~Scott Melanson
Parts List:
- Used 2011 Mini Supercross 17.75″ TT
- Scythe Forks bought from Facebook Market Place, heavily chopped Steerer Tube.
- Tangent 1″ Split Top-Load Stem in Blue
- Cane Creek 40-Series Headset to allow for more room with the Chooped Headset
- 4.5 Inch Red Anodized Insight Bars
- Blue Accent 110 mm Insight Grips
- Box Three Brakes in Metallic Red for Handle and Arms with Matching Red Avian Carbon Brake Pads
- 140 mm Promax Polished Red Cranks with Blue 37T Insight Chainring with Polish SS Chain-Rings (I want to say they’re Inisght) and Anodized Blue Insight Mini Pedals
- Omni Racer 110mm Eruo BB with Carbon Fiber Body and Titanium Shaft
- KMC B1 Chain (Ended up switching to a SRAM PC-1 later for a little less resitance and better luster)
- Insight Seat Clamp and Seat Post, in matching Red Anodized Finish, with a Translucent Blue Insight Pivotal Seat
- Five BMX Marble Carbon Rims with Red Titanium Spokes mated to Bomshell One80 Hubs in Black (Picked these up Used and Assembled) with Tioga FASTR-X 1-1/8 Tires and using a Red Bombshell 15T Cog and Tangent Chain Tensioners (Blue with a Red Stay Accent for the Pressure Applying Foot)
- Black Box Components Flex Line Brake Cable with (Later Replaced) Red Anodized Cable Clips
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