I have repainted many bikes with rattle cans and had fairly good results. If what you are looking for is a high quality job of a classic restoration then no. if you are looking for a super tough surface like powder coating then most likely not. But if you want something cheap and ok I wouldn’t rule it out. I have never bothered to take things down to bare metal, if the factory paint is hanging on that good all I have ever done is sand it smooth and then use auto paint for the paint and then several coats of clear over that. Primer and paint and clear. You can also get epoxy paints in rattle cans and that paint is pretty tough. Follow directions though as epoxy need to have coats put on one after another or wait 48 hours between. If you let harden and then recoat soon it will wrinkle. I have never cleared over epoxy.

I have a couple bikes I rattle canned that have been rode a lot for at least 4 years and they still look good.

It won’t be a show piece but won’t cost a fortune ether. If you are worried about trying get a junk frame and experiment.

Here is a bike I painted after about a year. It was GMC truck blue.



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