Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I think that bike painters are pretty evenly split between masking tape and liquid mask.
This guy uses tape, and LOTS of Xacto blades
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27880623@N05/
http://www.keithandersoncycles.com/paint.html
lots of how its done on the flickr pages.
Your problem is why auto body shops usually do not do bikes well, they are both metal but very different.