Invisiframe

Best £70 I’ve spent, getting someone else to do it.

My wife did get someone else to do it 🙄

I should probably charge her.

It's a doddle .I find it therapeutic

I really enjoy fitting it. Patience is key

What trouble are you having?

I've got a dark purple matt paint job on my Commencal - I just know it needs Invisiframe, but can you imagine how much every tiny bubble will show up??? I don't dare start it 😳
Anyone who says it's easy can go squirt ipa down their japs eye. And I don't mean the beer.

What trouble are you having?

no real trouble, just tedious and not enjoying it is all.

Finished now. I give myself 7/10, overall not too bad.

I should have turned the frame upside down for the down tube, it’s got a few bubbles.

on a totally new box fresh bike i thought it was nice. Although i wouldn't even attempt it on anything else.

agree though best money spent on a carbon bike

RANT:
I had a dark matt brown with orange tint Specialized Diverge done. Before the Invisi was fitted I removed the new frame from the box & was not impressed. It looked matt black & marked everywhere like chalk marks.
Had a matt invisiframe fitted & it looks a million dollars - a mate described the colour as 'Coca Cola'.

But FFS who decided MATT was a good finish for a bike frame??

Found it a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.

Learned i should not drink more than two beers during the job, some very shonky work towards the end on my part.

agree though best money spent on a carbon bike

Definitely - my Rocky Mountain looks a right state cos I didn't invisiframe it and my son's carbon Remedy still looks great (when the thing is clean!) with a combo of gloss and matt protection. Although the Trek does have a plastic downtube cover built in. Not sure why all carbon bikes aren't like this. Maybe they are now, mine is well old.

Rocky Mountain looks a right state cos I didn’t invisiframe it and my son’s carbon Remedy still looks great

But you'll still have idiots telling you it's a waste of money, "as it's a mtb and meant to get scratched"
I'm more than happy to have all my bikes invisiframed and am happy to pay a mechanic to do it for me.

Deffo not a waste of money, but I do wish it wasn't 100quid a go! 🙂

My wallet is grateful that it serves to severely limit the number of new bikes I will buy.

Fitted 2 kits now (one gloss and one matt), and found the finish on a gloss one better, i.e. less obvious it had been invisiframed. Not my favourite part of the build, but rather do it myself than pay someone else to do a less than perfect job. I can tolerate a small number of tiny bubbles knowing that I've saved myself £70 or so.

Ah-ha , found it!
I knew I’d mentioned being worried about doing my matt purply bike somewhere… needn’t have been. Spent yesterday doing the specific Ride Wrap kit on it.
Matt version, and it was ok! The skinny seatstays weren’t fun to get stuck, but once they were done everything else was fine. Minimal bubblage and it looks great.
I think you get slightly more with the Ride Wrap kit - detailed pictorial instructions, squeegy, absorbent cloth, ipa wipes and soap type mix for putting in the water. Good product.

I dun a ridewrap kit. first new complete bike I think I've bought in 25 years. carbon, nice paint job, fair bit of top tube acreage to look at, so thought it was worth £90 (?) keeping it nice. but not £170. It's the kind of job i don't mind doing, so was happy to give it a go. did a decent enough job. the finish is good like an extra thick gloss coat, paint's not being rubbed on chainstays seat stays. little scratches are probably being warded off. Ridewrap claims microscratches in the film self-heal in the sun.

But the idea is to avoid scratches to the paint, but there are plenty of panels, 20 odd on a ful sus frame? and, at every join, there are a 2 visible edges to each panel. That look a lot like... scratches?

Yeah, I got a Ride Wrap kit for my brand new (first ever new/full suspension bike) Airdrop Edit in March 2022.

It wasn't 'fun' to fit but I was rather pleased with the finished job and I love the fact that my new bike is better protected.

I had a few bubbles immediately after I had finished but most of them have disappeared over the months since I did it.

But the idea is to avoid scratches to the paint, but there are plenty of panels, 20 odd on a ful sus frame? and, at every join, there are a 2 visible edges to each panel. That look a lot like… scratches?

Yeah I do wonder if when you remove the kit there’s a load of scratched outlines around where each panel is. Probably polish out easily enough if you’re too worried.

The last time I did it I concluded:
Never buy a Matt finished bike again
Never buy a new bike again so I don't have to worry about paint chips!