Paintin' the Goats

Mountain Goats have always been known for their custom paint. The older Goats were painted by Russ Pickett, of AirArt, and when we started making new Goats, we called on Russ to work his magic again. Russ has done a great job resurrecting the vintage paint schemes for us but it is a slow and expensive process. It is frustrating enough to have to wait 4-6 months for a frame to be built but adding on another 3-4 months for paints can make the wait uncomfortable close to a year. Shipping to and from Chico, CA adds a couple of weeks of transit time plus about $80 to the cost. We looked around at some of the local guys and found Peter Weber less than 10 minutes from the shop. He painted one of our customers bikes and it turned out great. Here are a couple of images from his web site:


For more, go to http://www.peterscustomart.com/default.aspx

Obviously, he is more that qualified! We made the trip to his shop yesterday with 3 bikes. Darrell took the Hairy Kay to get a glorious coat of pink applied (Although Peter did as him if he was serious!). Sean took the part from the Ti Whiskeytown Racer for some candy blue. The rims, fork and Luv Handles will all be painted to match. After paint, the rims are heading to I9 for spokes and hubs. I took the Route 29 FS with a couple of ideas in mind. One was a take-off of the old California Yuppie paint except with a North Carolina inspiration (beach, Wright Bros., NASCAR...) and the other was the Goatful Dead with skeletal Goats. If you took a minute to look a Peter's web site, you know which one he preferred.

Hopefully, we'll some cool new stuff to show in the next couple of weeks!