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Generally rattlecan paint chips easily, even the acrylic stuff. There's not a lot you can do about it other than use decent primer. I still rattlecan stuff (I've gone back to uni so I had to leave my compressor and whatnot in my girlfriend's garage) and I've found that Hycote Double Acrylic is my personal favourite, and their primers are good too. It still does chip easily, but not nearly as bad as Carplan or Halfords watery crap.
My mate painted his forks with Plastikote enamel - it's at least as tough as Hycote stuff and a bit cheaper too, but the range of colours is really limited.