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From: Northern San Diego
Bikes: mid 1980s De Rosa SL, 1985 Tommasini Super Prestige all Campy SR, 1992 Paramount PDG Series 7, 1997 Lemond Zurich, 1998 Trek Y-foil, 2006 Schwinn Super Sport GS, 2006 Specialized Hardrock Sport
It's probably not so much the thickness of the paint, as the lack of robustness of the molecular bond that various paints have with the non-porous plastic surface of most carbon fiber frames. Paint simply doesn't adhere to most engineered plastics as well as it does to most metals.