The Heavy Methil Spesh Spray.Bike Paint Project

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  • Yeah, it does dry very quickly, and any further away than 10cm on a warm/windy day it'll dry before even hitting the surface.

  • Seat clamp.


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  • love it! great stuff

  • I have just put together this exact combination of rim and tyre - and boy did that test my thumb strength!

    Don't know the cable-tie trick; what's that (I might need it for the other wheel that I've not yet got round to doing).

  • Yep, they're a real fucker to get on. What I did - after mangling two tubes trying to force them onto the rim - was working around from the valve, tying off the tyre so that the bead stays on as you work around, moving the ties as you go along. Anything that'll keep the bead from slipping off will do: shoe laces, cable ties, canvas rucksack cords, even pedal straps that you can ratchet right down. Pinching the tyre and tube helped seat the bead in, but I still had to use a tyre lever right at the very end to get the last bit on. I took the tyre off once I'd fitted it the first time and the bead seemed to bed in a bit more easily.

    There's a video
    of a bloke doing something similar with Schwalbe Marathons which are also a beast to fit.

  • Ah, gotcha. I also resorted to tyre lever. For shame!

  • So good!

  • Looks good have you made any made more progress?

  • Waiting on vinyl being printed; debating whether to take a punt on Montana Gold for detail spraying..

  • really nice. Also thinking of doing a spray.bike project and this has reignited my interest.

    You say you're not using their clear coat, what are you going to use instead?

  • I've already given the frame one coat with the spray.bike lacquer but want to try this stuff out: http://www.specialistpaints.com/products/2k-clear-coat-canz just to see if it's a wee bit tougher. When I was clear-coating the stem and bars I got quite a lot of running, perhaps due to a combination of things: lots of angles/corners, coated 2 hours after painting, a tendency to over spray with a small part.

  • Looking forward to see how the contour height line thing works out, planning on something similar for the girlfriends adventure bike.

  • Cheers, vinyl ordered and spraying to commence next week so will keep you posted. It's quite a complex job to cut, mask and weed hence £60 cost for vinyl. Happy to knock up a vector file for you if you let me know the dimensions you're planning. It'll be a one-off as hand-drawn in Illustrator.

  • Subbed. Nice work!

  • Getting to the final throes of frame painting, and encountering some issues. Principally my own over-enthusiasm, but I am at least learning through my mistakes. Flatting back the lacquer that I foolishly sprayed on - albeit a light misting coat - is the next stage so that the Montana Gold gold chrome I'm planning will actually adhere to the frame and not just slide off, like so .

    Vinyl is incoming, so I did some practice on an old frame and it doesn't look half bad. It's a lot less forgiving than the spray.bike stuff; a bummer they don't do metallics yet. I wonder if I might be worth sticking a coat of primer on then spraying the gold over..

    Trick is to go verrrry easy with the coats; first one should be no more than a wee tickle of paint over the top, let dry for 5 mins or so. I have a feeling my environment was maybe a bit too warm, circa 21deg.


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  • Vinyl mock-ups, broadly to scale in terms of how they'll be sized on the frame.


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  • Headtube mockup.


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  • Forks inner and outer.


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  • TT topographic graphic.


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  • Good effort and informative too.

    Keep it up!

  • This is going to be bloody awesome.

  • Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss get it done already. Going to be rad

  • Looks great so far! Look forward to seeing it finished

  • This looks great. Did you decide for or against glitter for the decals? I concur that the spray.bike stuff is quite forgiving as I've since made a mess of my glitter project.

  • Think I'm gonna skip the glitter; planning on a coat of primer plus two coats of Montana Gold so glitter might be overkill. Any pics of your glitter calamity?

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