Originally Posted by
hat and beard
I love how this looks. Did you clear coat it or do anything else to prevent it from rusting?
Nope! no clearcoat at all. The bike was originally gonna be painted a Teal color but I love bare metal too much. The real goal is to have this look on a better frame.
I still need to remove some of the previous paint in the hard to reach areas but I just gave it a WD40 rub anywhere I could reach, basically I soak a rag in it, or any other knockoff version of wd40 and keep rubbing the metal, so far its lasted a month without any rust, but im also not riding in the rain either. Im not worried about rust on this bike, surface rust is easy to rub off. Im sure the surface rust will form much faster once the weather starts really warming though.