#45: Rudi Jung of Black Magic Paint

The Paceline Cycling Podcast · Jul 24, 2019 · 1h 10m

My guest this week is painter Rudi Jung of Black Magic Paint. Jung caught my eye in 2017 with a frame he painted for Chris Bishop. It was a mostly black frame and fork, but had a red-orange-yellow fade through a design that had the look of wood grain. It’s was eye-catching in the extreme. Making the bike even more notable was the fact that the Bishop down tube logo featured gold leaf. I’d only seen one other painter use gold leaf and that was frame builder Brian Baylis. In fact, Jung had used variated gold leaf and because of the paint he laid over the gold leaf, I wasn’t absolutely certain…