AdventureManCO 

Friends,

I'm looking for finish ideas for a potential project. It is still a ways off, but I'm interested in finding a really beautiful color that is going to pop. Could be paint or powdercoat, 1 tone or multi, factory or custom job. Sky's the limit. What is 'that one' incredible finish on a frame you've never been able to forget? I'm including the one on here I haven't been able to forget, except that I think I'm wanting a different color.

done by 'The Powdercoat Man' in Maple Grove, MN


Thanks in advance!

merziac

Bingo, and my contribution.

Although it takes sunlight to truly "pop", it is beautiful all the time, gets compliments everywhere we go yada, yada.

Pics cannot do it justice but sort of give an idea, sort of.

Honda Basque red using just the base coat. Black Magic paint did it so not sure what "magic" they may have worked but it is fantastic.

It was not what I wanted initially but quickly grew on me and I love it.

merziac

DOH!

Can't follow instructions, ever, or read the title apparently.

Couldn't do it in 1 pic.

Mad Honk 

All of the Prisimatic powder coat colors turn out like the purple of the first post. My next one will be in a turquois on a Raleigh. Smiles, MH

steelbikeguy

Shamrock Cycles has done some really cool paint jobs that they have displayed at the NAHBS that I've attended. This bike from the 2015 NAHBS won the award for best paint, and that seemed right to me.



Steve in Peoria

iab

Well, it is the only powdercoat I have had done. So it qualifies, even though there ain't nothing special about it.


Umberto Dei 01 by iabisdb, on Flickr

nlerner

This Hetchins was refinished by Mercian. Definitely fanciest paint job of anything I’ve had.

lasauge 

Neither C nor V, but I adore the Starry Night finish on my Revolt (MY22 Revolt Advanced 2 frame). It's a prismatic finish with metal flake, it shifts between blue and green in most lights, but at some angles it's purple as in the second picture (note it's just dusty here, finish is the same all over).

obrentharris 

This is the nicest I own. Frame by Mark DiNucci. Paint by Black Magic in Portland.



Hopefully @botty kayer will post in this thread. He has some bikes with fabulous paint.

For some really wild and wonderful paint jobs do an internet image search for "Brian Baylis Bicycle"

Brent

Fredo76

Andy Antipas 

This is a 650c bicycle I built for my son who has now outgrown it!

scarlson 

Joe Bell's wonderful splatter. Not the best paint I've seen, but certainly the best I've had. This paint is expertly done, thick without being lumpy and nearly impossible to scratch! I got it for very cheap, because it needed torch work. Unfortunately I had to torch off some of the paint to fix a crack in the frame!

merziac

Another bingo!

Fantastic color and bike.

Andrew_G

2008 Richard Sachs. Paint by Joe Bell. Dupont Imron Pastel Blue, with pearl white panels.

Andy_K 

How about one paint and one powdercoat?

My best paint job is the Stella that I had painted by Jeff Bock.




For powder coat, I've got my Motobecane Grand Jubilé by Groody Bros.

botty kayer

Thanks to obrentharris for mention, and I agree with merziac the host has made it impossible to do with one just 1 pic, so I'm going to have to break that rule, but 2 of the 3 bikes I'm about to post display different colors from different angles, so its necessary to show the details.

Firstly this deep green on my Merckx, which has a sparkle that annoyingly I can never seem to capture properly in pics. It melted my heart the minute I saw it, so much so I had to have it. I paid to ship it over from the frozen northern Canada to the UK, right at the start of COVID so it was took over 6 months to arrive
which was a tense and nervous time. In the sunshine it dazzles, and though I have much more rowdily painted bikes you'll see in a minute that attract appreciative
comments from knowledgeable bike folks, overall this bike gets more love from bike and non bike folks alike than any bike I've owned, and its the deep green that seems to be the great attractor.


I was in high school in the late 80's and early 90's when people and bikes were dressed with bright colors and lots of flouro, so I'm a sucker for a rowdy paint job.

And so when a bright pink Italian Tommasini frame came into my eBay cross hairs I was simply putty and was inevitably going to cave and buy it. Of course being bright pink in late 80's and early 90's was still not enough for the Italians, so they spray painted some more colored panels on the seat and down tubes, so like a strutting bird of paradise it displays different colors depending on what angle you see it from. And yet they still thought this was not enough, so as a final flourish they added a load of stampeding stallions on the top tube.


I genuinely thought it could not get any wilder than that, and that was the quintessential showy Italian 80's bike....but then earlier this year I just so happened to be idly flicking through eBay and discovered that there was another level to late 80's Italian overkill, things were about to go supernova....Like a Bond villain issuing James with the 'resistance is futile Mr Bond' line, my heart melted again in seconds, and thank heavens 2022 marked my 50th birthday as it gave me the excuse to buy this. A Columbus Max Somec painted by the legend Mario Martini, which is frankly ridiculous and hilarious and looks like somebody fell into a
vat of LSD and was let loose with a spray gun. I absolutely love it and it still makes me break out in a massive smile just seeing it, and it has the same effect when I'm riding it.

The fork is painted slightly differently on each side....

1989Pre 

Photo from steel-vintage.com:

Schlafen

Not my bike but I wish it was, currently my desktop background.

easyupbug 

My tastes are more subtle, favorite being my black/silver smoked paint on a Tommasini Tecno but for POP it is hard to beat Jamesdak's taste.

John E

1959 Capo, CyclArt repaint .

rumrunn6

gorgeous color!

Inusuit

Different strokes for different folks. Not to my taste.

Mr. 66

I do have a couple of backyardigans, here is the O'Brien I painted a number of years back. It's getting an Ultegra makeover


I have a '77 Raleigh SBDU that I painted as well but you only asked for one picture.

BFisher 

Ugh! I don't have a picture of it, unfortunately. I had a Schwinn Le Tour III in pearl orange. Too big for me so I moved it on. Say what you will about Schwinn, or the Le Tour models, but that might be the best factory color ever.

Dylansbob 

Nicest paint? This track frame that was apparently painted by Gforse in the 80s.