{"id":124043,"date":"2020-12-16T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=global&p=124043"},"modified":"2023-04-09T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T10:24:21","slug":"custom-painted-xc-iii","status":"publish","type":"global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/global\/custom-painted-xc-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Painted XC-III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello hello. This is Konno from Cook Paint Works.
\nToday, I’m writing this blog to talk about this…\"\"
\nThe masterpiece from MKS. The XC-III, a.k.a. the Bear Trap pedals.
\nThese work of art look amazing on Riv bikes and Surly bikes, and have become very very popular.<\/p>\n

So, I’m often at the Kamiuma store whenever I have a spare time from doing custom paint jobs.
\nOne day, Tani, the boss of the Kamiuma store came up to me and said, “Can’t you paint these pedals?”
\nCook Paint Works is a bike painting company by Blue Lug.
\nWe mainly paint frames, sometimes stems, and other small things. But somehow I never painted pedals…hmm.\"\"
\nThe cage of the XC-III pedals are just screwed on with simple bolts, so it’s pretty easy to take them apart like this.
\nBut you know, there’s bearings in the base and I don’t wanna mess that up…<\/p>\n

Screw it! I’ll just paint the cage!!
\n…These are the results.
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\nHey, that’s pretty good!
\nBut the single solid color didn’t really do it for me.
\nI want the pedals to look crazy! And more “custom” looking.
\nThe idea of these paint jobs were made totally on the spot by yours truly.
\nAnd yeah, here goes nothing!
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\nSix colors in total, and they all have different patterns!<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at them one by one.
\nStarting off with three cracked paint.
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\nMan, I would love to see these on an old MTB.<\/p>\n

Alright next. The lovely neon colors.
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\nIf you look closely into the neon orange, you could also spot some cracks here and there.
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\nFor the neon yellow, I gave some drip.
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\nThe cages were so small compared to things that I usually paint, so it was\u00a0definitely a challenge to control the drip.<\/p>\n

Okay, the next one is my personal favorite.
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\nYou thought it was just a green color didn’t you?
\nNope. If you look closely, there are some green grains. Can you see it?<\/p>\n

After painting five of them, I was kinda out of ideas of the patterns.
\nBut while I was taking a walk, I found this near the painting facility.
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\nYup, moss.
\nI wanted to do a green base color from when I started this project, this moss gave me an excellent inspiration.
\nAnyway, these pedals were a blast to paint!
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\nDo guys like these pain jobs? What do you think?
\nEither way, these babies will be out on our website!!
\nFrom\u00a0December 16th 8:oo p.m. JST<\/strong><\/a>!!<\/p>\n

The special color XC-III are extremely limited and they won’t be back once they are gone.
\nWe only have a few of them so, I’m sorry if you miss it…
\nAlso, we got tons of restock for the normal XC-III<\/a> so, keep an eye out on those if you missed them in the previous release!<\/p>\n

Enjoy!!\"\"<\/p>\n

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