Bike Painting
Background
It was on an uneventful day during summer vacations that I decided to do my first DIY project, together with a good friend of mine. I was able to get my hands on an old road bike for just €50. I wanted to color it almost entirely black with just a few fluoresecent yellow accents on it. We thought it’d be a good idea to make a drawing before coloring it:
So that was the idea, but when we went to the shop, the fluorescent yellow paint turned out to be really expensive, so we decided to buy only one can. Of course, it was not sufficient, so we ended up replacing the color for some light green, spending a total of another €50 on paint, lacquer and cleaning product. Eventually, we also made some changes to the original design, because it would look a bit too busy with all those flashy accents on the bike.
I guess the pictures tell the story better than I can:
Before picture of the bike
Our system of painting the wheels, but not the tires. This was necessary because for some reason, the tires were glued to the wheels.
Painting done. Time to reassemble.
After picture of the bike
More than a year later, I got a bike to ride in Leuven to go to university, and
decided to enhance it a little bit too:
Before picture of the bike
After picture of the bike