+1

Embrace the pink.

My feeling is that if you have to ask about painting on a forum like this, you don't have the knowledge/skills to make it look good (at least for any appreciable amount of time). For a purely race frame, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Racing bikes are tools, and you can expect them to get scratched and scraped along the way. Now if you were talking about your classic Italian steel, lugged Mas-nag-ello, then you 'd definitely be better off paying someone who knows what they're doing.