People spend lots of time removing paint from their bicycle frames to paint them. I thought I would pass on a tip .

I scraped this paint off a Richey frame using the disposable utility knife shown that you can buy for a dollar at many big box hardware stores. What you see took about 15 minutes or less. Using this method you can remove maybe 80% of the frame paint in a couple hours, then using a electric vibrating or orbital sander, remove almost all the remaining paint except the lugs in another hour. The lugs will need stripper or, in my case, a small home sand blast kit. This is a lot faster and less messy than using stripper or sand blasting on the the whole frame. I have done it on three bikes so far and am sold on the method.