The repaints are mostly to get people driving by to stop and think "gee, for less than a couple new tires on my boring Ford Escort, I could be doing my local errands on something with real character."

Of course, with the hills in town, I doubt anybody will want to make a serious grocery run on a single speed, but most of what's on the pile is some sort of MTB. (Though I do have another Huffy cruiser in progress that's likely going to be hammered bronze metallic with blue/yellow accents.)
Thus, we end up with stuff like the above, or this old Galaxy done in the local HS colors.

Or the chromed out Diamondback that just looks so much cooler without any decals interrupting the shine.


Besides, it's just fun to take junk people were going to throw away and make it both useful and unique.