My tribute to Colin McRae, in bike form

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I've spent these wet and cold winter months working on a labour of love, it's a tribute to the great Colin McRae, in the form of a hardtail mountain bike. I took his 2001 Ford Focus WRC car as my inspiration, and with a little artistic licence. 

I had a bare steel Ribble hardtail frame and box of spare parts to hand so spent a little while learning some basic illustrator skills and created the decals to use, then I painted the frame in white, with a little touch of Ford RS blue on the stays and started the build.

I'm super happy with how it's turned out, the Martini livery is iconic enough that most folk can tell what it is, with subtle details to excite the rallying fans too, and Colin's signature on the top tube finished it off nicely, in my personal opinion at least! 

Hope you all like it!