[ogden]

Life is waaaay too short for that kind of stuff. Besides, while going overboard on bodywork makes some sense for a car, where that's pretty much all that's visible, on a bike it's a small fraction of the exposed surface and arguably the easiest bit to clean. And the paint on bikes is usually crap, as your brother discovered, which really limits what you can do with it.

Now if he fancies spending an afternoon being my dogsbody with a pack of toothbrushes and a can of WD40, I'm all ears...