ZeroTroubles

It turned out much better than I had expected.
https://imgur.com/a/Ng24w

Even if the paint will go to **** in a week, It'll look better than it did before haha!


I used Henx paint btw, if anyone's interested.

Do's and dont's for others who might want to do this
DO:
- Put down a large piece of plastic
- Put down newspapers when you're going to spray
- Wait between layers of paint
- Keep distance from bike and spraycan
- Wait at least 24h before riding the newly sprayed bike, even after the drying period. I waited 36 hours myself
- Buy a paint mask, otherwise you'll get lightheaded really quickly
- Spray in a well ventilated, but not too windy area

DONT:
- Scrap off all your paint, looking back on the project I might aswell have painted over the paint I already had on there. It was a lot of work to scrap off all the paint, even after applying paint stripper.
- Buy a CREATE bike.
- Buy a bike you don't like the colors off

Scrodzilla

That looks 100% horrendous. If I were you my next series of pics would show how to light a bike on fire.

johnnytheboy

shoulda "scrapped" the bike instead of the paint.

JamesCraps

My god... You didn't take off the crankset???

Edit: or even the stem?? Don't have an Allen wrench set???

EnzoRWD

this is your car, right?

EnzoRWD

and how was everything rusted in place on a new bike? yeesh.

JeremyLC

This… is horrifying.

To the OP, it looks better, but the other guys here are right. You probably damaged your bearings by not taking everything apart first. It's a relatively cheap bike, though, so ride it until it falls apart* and try to learn basic maintenance along the way. When it eventually does die you can upgrade.


*) No, I'm not saying the damaged bearings will make it fall apart, they'll probably just grind a bit and not roll as smoothly.

bones_mcbones

+1

I do appreciate how someone with zero knowledge will go to all that effort to make a horrible how to guide

Scrodzilla

ZeroKnowledge ≠ ZeroTroubles

mconlonx

Buddy of mine went kind of insane when he was riding a Honda CB400 across the USA back i the late 80s. Somewhere in TX he decided it would be awesome to paint the bike black and hit everything with rattlecan... paying special attention to the cooling fins... bike died somewhere in Louisiana...

ZeroTroubles

Well, it still works just as fine as it did before, besides I did ask those same guys on this forum right here, I'm pretty sure they both replied to it as well, https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...internet-karma! (take a look at the bottom of the thread especially)

But the only replies were HUEHUE LMGTFY and HUE HUE CLOWN BIKE and so on.

If only people would actually tell that before hand, instead of first being a dickass about it and then afterwards crying about it

Whatever, I just wanted to post this to let them know I did it anyway, and now I'm completely and officially done with this ****ty ass forum. Never has there been such a terrible community before, instead of helping beginners they just **** on them.

I'll check on this thread now and then but nothing more than that. Cya

RaleighSport

Don't take it so personal this subforum is known for being harshly honest, terrible jokes and lots and lots of gif posts. On that note.. your bike did come out horrendous; I did a bad rattle paint job one time and posted it up over in C&V I got very similar responses but at a lower level of snark, at first I took it as offensive.. then I realized they were just being honest.

Oh and a couple tips for you if you decide to try this again.. you will need masking tape, cloth for plugging threaded surfaces and you will also have to tape off those areas to prevent overspray into the threads. You may not need to remove all the paint, but you must at least evenly break the gloss all the way around the paint, anodized parts like your rims you will need to strip the anodizing and make sure everythings perfectly clean, you will want more than a piece of plastic to lay down you should want an entire "room" made of plastic that can hold the bike frame, your equipment and yourself as well as being ventilated by at the very least a box fan. Thin even coats with the rattlecan is extra extra important too, as can be wet sanding.. As for drying times.. If you've got the ceiling space you'd be better off throwing that sucker into there for a few weeks to give the paint a real chance to dry and harden as well, always allow drying time between processes IE Priming, Paint, Clearcoat...

Most importantly.. you only paint bare parts.. IE the frameset completely stripped down, or the fork with no crown race installed..

Elvo

People were helping you. You just refused to listen.

JeremyLC

Yeah, I posted in that thread twice. The very last post in it is the moderator quoting me before locking the thread

As for this particular sub-forum, I read for awhile before posting so I could get a feel for what kind of behavior to expect. There's a mix of smartasses and helpful smartasses. If you can roll with the punches you can get good advice and information around here.

Now, go ride your bike until it dies, then upgrade.

nelsonfung21

Go to "post your bike" thread and take a look what is the difference between your bike and our bikes... You really shouldn't waste any effort or money on this bike anymore... anymore

SpeshulEd 

I don't think a bike message board was needed...perhaps a spray paint message board would have been more useful.

https://www.spacepaintings.com/spraypaintart.html

Elvo

You meanies made him cry ='(

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...=#post16550987

RaleighSport

Oh goodness gracious.. you guys just wrecked it for the rest of the subforums.. we won't get his "Gracious" company.

RPK79

Thanks alot, d&^%s. He would have fit right in over on the 41.

RaleighSport

I think they would have ripped him way harder over there for that paintjob though...

RPK79

We would have just assumed he was a truly epic troll putting in massive effort.

EnzoRWD

Someone needs to post the final results in 41's Hot R Not thread. muwahaha

RPK79

Go for it.

GoPlayOnTheTrac

That thing looks like a murdered out hotrod. The only thing you missed was the saddle, and how about some pin striping?

I look forward to that how-to thread.

RPK79

The how to is in the OP link.