Month: April 2023

This weekend I was funded my resources to paint the bike, so my dad and I went to Canadian Tire and bought a drop sheet a rough sander brush thingy to rough up the bike surface and of course some spray paint. I got white and a gloss coat spray bottles. To be safe I started with the fork. I roughed up the surface then painted I think 3 coats might be 4. see below.

After it dried I search the entire house trying to find a chain tool to remove the chain from the frame to prepare for painting. And I also but masking tape over the parts on the bike that can’t be painted.

It was quite the process but I removed the cranks and then the brake (which isn’t connected yet) and removed the handle bars so now its only the frame.

This week I removed all the stickers on the bike frame and prepared it for sanding. I removed the wheels and am going to remove the handle bars. I set myself a deadline for the paint job, I hope to finish by may. I plan to paint the frame a soft white (spun cotton if possible). Here is a photo of me trying to remove the stickers. I would use a hair dryer to heat the stickers and then would peel them off.

It was not possible to work on my genius hour project over the break as I was 6 hours away in Fernie skiing. Now this would have been good if this was last genius hour, I had lots of fun skiing (this time no backflips). I have seen some videos on how to paint a bike in my youtube feed, I will use these as instructions once I have bought my spray paint. I have an extra chain lying in my garage and Im going to use that on my the project bike I just have to find my chain tool.