An auto body shop or professional bicycle frame shop can spray more efficiently than you can.
Best way to spray paint bike frame.
Setup your work station.
Use a high quality spray paint to paint the frame.
Only use if the frame isn t made of raw aluminum carbon.
Painting and reassembling the bike 1.
Look online or in your local hardware store for spray paint that.
6 tips for painting your bike.
Clean it up with something good to get rid of all the grease and.
Strip off component parts.
In order to end up with a professional looking paint job i stripped all the paint off the frame to bare metal.
This is essential to do a proper paint job on a frame.
Appliance or automotive spray epoxy should work fine on a carbon bike.
That s the seat wheels.
If this is your first time painting a bike or if you re using a different paint than last time you might want to practice.
How to refurbish and respray your bike frame.
A good spray painted enamel finish requires several coats first the rust preventative primer then color coats and often a clear finish coat to add gloss.
So everything that s attached to the frame needs to come off.
Painter s tape for covering parts you don t wish to paint.
Start stripping the bike.
So now you have the bike frame.
I bartered for a bike recently and i was not digging the purple color scheme so i decided to paint it.
Break out the tape.
Spray paint the first coat on the bike frame.
Don t use any epoxy paint that requires heat to seal it unless you are an expert at heat sealing paint.
Then i painted it my favorite color with automotive paint and finally coated it with 5 coats of automotive clearcoat.
Hold the can of spray paint around 1 foot 0 3 m 30 48 cm away from.
Spray the paint on in long even strokes.
Quality spray paint degreaser or rubbing alcohol lint free towel sandpaper sanding your bike allows the pain to stick better.
For painting your bike.
The paint of choice for bicycle frames is dupont imron enamel.
Here i show how to prep your bike for painting apply.
Hold the can of epoxy paint approximately 6 to 10 inches from your bike s frame.
I decided to try spray painting my own track bike frame using some special bike spray paint i was sent.