OK so a 2hip was on my hit list. Soul maybe? or a Pork. I don't like the DTT frames, especially the heavier ones. I know, blasphemy etc. What I ended up with was something I had never seen before, or even heard of. I was poking around on the bay one night about 6 months back (as you do) and this popped up.
I had never heard of it. Convinced it was fake I asked my buddy about it. He says "Yeah, their first complete, if it's an 03 it's basically a Soul with every so slightly different drops". Then I noticed this.
Yup, definitely not a Soul but practically identical.
So I bought it for 90 quid with a headset and fork. Stuck it in the loft, figured I would get to it later. Oh if only I had known what a bloody cool frame this would turn out to be. I found it on 2hip's site, it's a Root Down alright.
The parts on it were a bit poo. I suppose you couldn't ask much with the frame being decent and all. So I will lose no sleep over doing this better than it would have been originally. Now for how embarrassed I feel lol. I didn't get the name. Why the F would you call a bike that? it makes no sense. All of this time of course there was a loud WHOOSH as it was going over my head. I should have immediately remembered it, as I loved the tune.
That is why it is called a Root Down, because it is named after the tune and EP by the Beastie Boys, who I love. Intergalactic is one of the best tunes ever made by any one. OK, so screw it let's do a full blown tribute.
I had picked the colour about six years ago. See, I am also into building/modifying/winning competitions for PC modding and so on. So I saw this when the wrap was the in thing.
And was all like "Holy shit that's a nice friggin colour !" but I never found a use for it anywhere. Until now. I won't go into how I am going to get that colour out of a paint can yet, as I can do that when I order it all at the end of the week. For right now it was time to actually sit down and create the decals for the bike, given that I am finally breaking the shackles and doing a 100% custom bike with custom decals (drawn, printed and cut by my own hands !). So I hit the drawing board, given it had cooled down some today.
I wanted them to look like a bill poster you would see slapped on a wall somewhere. If that makes sense? it does to me.
Going to be a slower burner this one. Slower than my usual any way. I will print the decals later, once I am sure there are no more small ones I want etc.
