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Is there a current 'go to'?
Thinking of having my Kenevo painted while it's currently stripped down - would need the full prep and paint. Not decided on a colour yet.
And how do aftermarket paint jobs hold up compared to factory paint - not sure I can be bothered getting it invisiframed again?
JMJ designs have done amazing work for me, always invisiframed so can’t speak for how durable it is.
Very nice!
How much if you don't mind me asking?
Pivot was around £400 I think, helmet £200, deviate (frame and fork, stripping back to raw carbon, loads of masking and finishing work to get the effects) about £1200.
I think a flat colour and contrasting logos is around £250-300
£1200 to paint a frame 🥴
£1200 to paint a frame 🥴
Have you looked at what had been done, and tried to work out the hours involved? It's a lot.
It's not the 70s anymore, painting a large, relatively simple car panel to a decent standard doesn't typically cost 200 quid. Extrapolate that out to the fiddly shapes involved in a bike frame, and then add in a complicated masking/airbrushing/hand painting job on top, and it's not hard to see why it's that much.
I got a rough quote for a powder coat of a full suss frame the other day and they said about £80 without seeing it, that was for metallic.
That was in Castleford, and I reckon you'd have to drop it off.
10 years ago I paid a local powdercoater £50 for a single colour on a steel frame. Expect that'd be significantly more now. I'd not trust him to do an aluminium or carbon (or any FSer) though - I heard of more than one frame failure afterwards following powercoating alu at the same place.
With any new paintjob I'd definitely be adding invisiframe or similar. I'd cry if I as much as dropped any of Tom's bikes above.
I’d cry if I as much as dropped any of Tom’s bikes above.
One does have a "battle-damaged" paintjob anyway though, TBF
I know Coal Bikes use http://blackcatcustompaint.co.uk/ who are well regarded
We have had a few frames, Specialized, Santa Cruz and Giant, powdercoated at LSN in Castleford over the years.
All have been top quality.
Was up there last week with my daughter picking up a lot of parts that have been done for her MX5 restoration and the work is still first class
£1200 to paint a frame
No, read my post again, took him about a month remove all the bearings and seals, then to sand the frame and fork back to bare carbon/metal, then he had to design all the masking/stickers in order to do all the (four) layers of paint, then had to do all the detailing to make it look like raw metal, then refit everything so all I needed to do was bolt shiny bits to it.
Not cheap but good value, IMO.
The Powdercoater that did my Rå, whilst did a good job, took three goes and 2 frames to get it right.