I know this might be better in the Bicycle Mechanics section if I was looking for technical advice but this is more about personal preference so thought I would throw it out to the general forum.

I love my Shiv (tri bike). I have a couple other tri bikes, one newer, one older, but there is just something about this Shiv that it just "clicks" with me. Even though it's old (as far as tri bikes are concerned) and I'm old (and fat, and slow), I just love this bike. The ONLY thing I don't like about it is that the base color is black. I'm personally not a fan of the blacked out look. I like colors.

I'm thinking I want to add some color to the bike. I really like some of the color shift paints (or wraps) I see on some of the Cervelos and Quintana Roos. Now, if I was just going to go with a single color, like white, I imagine it would be pretty easy to just strip off the top coat from this bike and rattle can the white of my choice over bare CF. But being that I kind of like that color shift look, I think that would be quite a bit more tricky to do with rattle cans.

So the question is, what would be better? Strip it of all the hardware and let somebody wrap it? Or sand down the clear at home and shoot it with some Krylon? Andbody have any experience with this?