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Eternal preparation and runny paint: If you want to spray your bike with conventional paints, you'll quickly ruin your nerves. BIKE intern Paul Weinbrenner has tried out the special colours from the Spray.Bike can. On the frame of a Giant Anthem, the colours were able to keep many promises. He found out a few tricks for DIY painting, which he reveals in the video below.
Our video tutorial on custom bike painting with a spray can.
I worked on the bike for a whole week. The Spray.bike colours shorten the preparation time because they cover without primer. There are also no paint noses. But despite the quick-drying paint, the work steps add up, depending on the number of colour transitions and lettering. With powder coating, painting is similar to spraying with graffiti cans. Those who follow this style will have a lot of fun. Smooth transitions and creative designs are easy to achieve and look great. For example, I used light pressure on the spray head to make the can "patter". This creates uneven blobs of colour that give the transitions a cool graffiti look. Hard edges and clean lettering, on the other hand, can make you break out in a sweat. In any case, it doesn't hurt to practise on your grandma's bike first before you venture out on your dream bike. However, you won't get it 100 per cent free of blemishes. From a distance, the little blemishes are hardly noticeable. But painting your own bike is not for perfectionists. If you approach it with an open mind, you will be rewarded with a unique paint job.
Six steps to a customised look: You can download the entire workshop from BIKE 12/2021 as a PDF below the article.
The PDF download costs 1.49 euros.
