Hello. I've been lurking around the paint and body forum for about a month now. I haven't had much experience in painting besides the rattle can here and there. In the future I plan on painting a Honda project inside and out, but I want to gain a little experience first before I undergo something that big.

So, I'm going to paint my bicycle. It's a GT racing bicycle.

Ta-da!


From what I've gathered from being on this forum, I figure I have to strip the paint first. Then I would add coats of primer, then paint, then clearcoat.

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So let's get started. I'm going to disassemble the bicycle to get to the naked frame tonight. What kind of paint stripper should I be looking at? Any particular ways to apply it to get best results?

Thanks, and I hope you can follow along as I do this. Hopefully it will help complete beginners like me to step into painting

 

Dont strip, just remove the decals and scuff it with some sand paper

 

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then what?

 

Yah just scuff with a grey scratch pad unless it is all chipped and scraped up. If you remove all the paint then you are gonna have to acid etch prime the bike to protect the metal. You will be worse off especially if it is an aluminum frame. You want to leve that primer sealer on the bike. Just scuff it or wet sand with 1200 grit.

If you wan't to practice painting, a bike is probobly not the best to practice on. All the curves and round tubes really make it easy to run. But I would really like to see the progress on this if you do it. I have alot of friends that bike and they usually have their frames all flat black with no brakes at all. They are nuts.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Disease &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> Yah just scuff with a grey scratch pad unless it is all chipped and scraped up. If you remove all the paint then you are gonna have to acid etch prime the bike to protect the metal. You will be worse off especially if it is an aluminum frame. You want to leve that primer sealer on the bike. Just scuff it or wet sand with 1200 grit.

If you wan't to practice painting, a bike is probobly not the best to practice on. All the curves and round tubes really make it easy to run. But I would really like to see the progress on this if you do it. I have alot of friends that bike and they usually have their frames all flat black with no brakes at all. They are nuts. </TD></TR></TABLE>

I see. So I will be doing thin coats with a rattle can, correct?

I'll finish taking the thing apart. Then I'll wet sand it tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for the help!

The actual bike: