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Old 05-18-16 | 07:15 PM
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HillRider
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

A bike is not the same as a car. Good bike frames are usually very thin metal. Even good steel frames use very thing gauge tubing walls and aluminum frames are even more fragile. Sand blasting is likely to do serious or fatal damage to either material. Carbon is definitely an absolute no-no for blasting media of any type.

Ask a local frame builder how he prepare his frames for painting and follow his advice.
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