Spray painting me bike

[plowsie]

Seen all these threads about how peeps are painting bits on their bikes, I really fancy doing the whole lot on mine. If I peel all the stickers off it is all white, what is the process once I have removed all the stickers?

How many cans would I need and what would I need?

Been quoted ?300ish quid for a full repaint...

[fizzwheel]

Unless I knew why, I'd never buy a bike that wasnt standard paint scheme.

its OK if you're going to keep it, then fine, if you want to sell it leave it standard, or buy a 2nd hand set of plastics and paint those and keep the original ones...

[jumjum_0214]

Plowsie,

I personally would pay the ?300 and have a perfect finish.... I wouldnt be able to trust myself :-)

[plowsie]

Thats what i thought aswell if i do do it. But have seen Badsv650's finish on his, he's done it really well.

[SoulKiss]

Thats what i thought aswell if i do do it. But have seen Badsv650's finish on his, he's done it really well.

It will EASILY approach ?300 to do it yourself and want a good finish.

Think about how much time it will take, even at mimimum wage levels its still a lot, then the paint, then the extra time to sand out any mistakes and then more paint.

Get my drift?

If you want to paint your bike for the experience/learning how to do it/fun, then go for it.

If you are DIYing to save money - you wont save THAT much in the end.

I worked out it would have been cheaper to replace the broken rear seat fairing with a colour matched part than it was to repair and repaint it myself.

[rictus01]

It will EASILY approach ?300 to do it yourself and want a good finish.

Think about how much time it will take, even at mimimum wage levels its still a lot, then the paint, then the extra time to sand out any mistakes and then more paint.

Get my drift?

If you want to paint your bike for the experience/learning how to do it/fun, then go for it.

If you are DIYing to save money - you wont save THAT much in the end.

I worked out it would have been cheaper to replace the broken rear seat fairing with a colour matched part than it was to repair and repaint it myself.

speak for yourself :cool:

[SoulKiss]

speak for yourself :cool:

Ok, so I was speaking for myself as a fairly amateur type person.

You of course have had years to master the craft, and thankfully had the time to give me pointers :)

[blueto]

be interesting to see it plowsie once its done..

Hope it goes well./.....Try asking a local spray shop for tips to see if they can help/?

[timwilky]

You will never get a good finish from rattle cans.

So assuming you are able to use 2 pack, ie access to compressor, decent gun and air fed mask. then DA sanders, polishers etc.

Litre primer £12
2Litre paint £40
2 1/2 Litre Hardner, £20
plastic addative, £10
5 Litre thinners £15
Tak Rags £4
Wet&dry £4.

Labour to prepare assume at least 5 hours, then 2 hours to paint.


£300 starts to sound a good deal when you are going to get a professional finsh first time

[Zombie Jesus]

Thinking about doing this to the track fairings for my gsxr the plan is only to repaint the white fairing sections to back. Some of the parts are already broken and need welding and I was just starting to look into doing it cheap say 50 quid or so chances are it will go down again sooner or later.

[ricky]

i will be painting mine soon, only reason is due to it being droped

i have orded some replacment panels some from here, and got on delivered from egay this morning

you could so badly tell it had been done with a can the orange peal was all over.

i will be using 2pac with mine but they i have half the gear already, ie spray gun compressor and got loads of filler, primer, laquar, thinners, hardner, even white and silver paint, all from when my mates have asked stuff to be painted

the only thing i will need is the original blue colour paint and some sand paper and plastic adative

[timwilky]

i will be painting mine soon, only reason is due to it being droped

i have orded some replacment panels some from here, and got on delivered from egay this morning

you could so badly tell it had been done with a can the orange peal was all over.

i will be using 2pac with mine but they i have half the gear already, ie spray gun compressor and got loads of filler, primer, laquar, thinners, hardner, even white and silver paint, all from when my mates have asked stuff to be painted

the only thing i will need is the original blue colour paint and some sand paper and plastic adative

Please ensure your half the gear also includes a good mask. Otherwise it may be a trip down to the mortuary.

[SoulKiss]

i will be using 2pac with mine

Isn't he dead????

[ricky]

Please ensure your half the gear also includes a good mask. Otherwise it may be a trip down to the mortuary.
when painting i always use a mask.

[northwind]

You will never get a good finish from rattle cans.


You can, with decent paints and a good approach. Mainly down to not running cans dry, and starting and finishing each stroke off the panel. Wastes tons of paint though.

The main problem with rattlecans is that the finish is so soft- the cellulose clearcoat you get in most places marks if you look at it, and bubbles if you get petrol on it. One of my fairing panels is rattlecanned- just a quick job to replace a damaged fairing, couldn't be bothered to gun it- and no joke, bees leave impact damage :mrgreen:

Even singlepack laquers are too soft for purpose, that's my biggest frustration with mine- I polished it up to a reasonable shine, and a few months later it was covered in scratches and faded patches, not to mention swirls. So I polished it back up, and the same thing happened. 've just stopped bothering, I'd polish through clearcoat otherwise, which is why mine is more or less satin instead of gloss :rolleyes: So, I won't ever use that again.

It depends a bit on how often you plan to respray, and how much work you want to put in- if you're like Rictus and respray every 15 minutes it doesn't matter that the laquer only lasts half an hour :smt023

2-pack's a bit tricky, because of the whole cyanide issue. Having said that, you would probably be fine in a reasonably ventilated space with a cartridge filter mask, if doing only one bike, or so say many people who handle the stuff. Cyanide isn't biocumulative if memory serves. But still, scary stuff to be breathing, I decided not to. And a pressure mask isn't really realistic for the DIYer.