How To Paint Your Bike

Painting your bike rims is a simple and affordable way to give your bike some flair so long as you follow the right procedure.
How to paint your bike. Here i show how to prep your bike for painting apply a smooth base coat get ready for. Although you can paint the rims without disassembling anything it s much safer to remove them from the wheel to avoid painting anything outside of them. Bored with the colour of your bike frame. I decided to try spray painting my own track bike frame using some special bike spray paint i was sent.
Over time your paint will wear down peel chip and rust and at some point you will need to repaint it. With the right tools and some time on your hands you can paint a bike that will turn out looking polished and custom made. Compared to normal spray paint it s genius. Fortunately you don t have to pay a professional to retouch a bike for you.
Customising your ride just got simple and affordable. I also demonstrate my method for adding custom lettering. Do you want to paint your bike and don t know how. You ll need a bike hehe a sandpaper block in a medium light grade painter s tape a wrench a screw driver or two depending on your bike screws scissors optional a big box to flatten out and use to protect your surface primer spray paint spray paint in choice of color s wash rag painters mask not shown and eye goggles.
Spray bike s super easy to use and perfect for repairing restoring and refreshing a bike. In this video i demonstrate how i paint bicycle frames including how to remove the old labels and prepare the frame for paint. Get funky with spray paint. Repainting your bike doesn t have to be a expensive process it can cost as little as 4 and consume as little as an hour of your life.
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. If the paint on a bike is old or chipped painting over it with a few fresh coats of paint is a great way to give it a brand new glossy look. In this instructable i ll show you in details how to spray paint a bmx bike. You can experiment on a cheap frame that you won t mind messing up.
Depending on how much you know about fixing bikes it could take you anywhere from 1 to 3 hours from start to finish excluding paint drying time.