There’s no worse feeling than finding a chip or scratch in your bike’s paint work. Seeing your pride and joy looking less than perfect can be really disheartening, and you might want to get it repaired! In this video, Manon visits Fat Creations to learn how professional frame painters repair damaged paint work and gets a few pro tips that you can try at home!
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Does your bike have any scratches or chips? Do you want to try to repair them yourself? Let us know in the comments below!
This seems easy enough
Manon needs her own show, she's so pleasent to see and hear
Did he fix the the scratch and chip on his head? 😂
Incredible precision on the stripes he had to mask off. the matte finish before the clear coat also looked dope!
Getting ready to re-paint my carbon road and these vids with Manon have been a godsend. All the best
Cervelo charges enough for their rides, you would think the paint would be as astonishing as this gentleman's.
It always a pleasure to watch a craftsman at work!!!
Wish this was more of a real "how to…". It covered the broad strokes but few of the specifics. I doubt a person not already experienced with the process could attempt this at home after watching this video. But thanks for sharing, gets me closer than I was.
Too much prep effort and work for small chips.
Thanks for going over it in detail.
9:51 still visible dent
Do shimano components next please 😀
The coincidence Manon is wearing the same t-shirt color as the bike
Great channel very informative your great on camera, cheers baz.
This dude is a master.
How much was the repair on the Cervelo?
How come its always the top of the frame? even on mine.. the top doesnt even come in contatc with any component
are you using 1K acrylic paint?
These shops exist in the USA?
And this is why I stick to pre-dented and pre-scratched bikes, I don't ever need to worry about this nonsense again 😀
What are the thick, white, foam strips you used for feathering your mask?
This video was titled "How to Repair Chips and Scratches on Your Bike" which Google and everyone obviously takes to mean how YOU repair them because it keeps coming up when I run a search. But the video is "How the Professionals Repair Chips……" The equipment and technique he uses is waaaaaay outside the profile of a normal person. While this is interesting, and the video is quite fascinating and admirable it is ultimately misleading and deceptive. This video is like watching a how-to-descend video about mountain biking by watching a Red Bull competition.
How do you match the colours?
Are manufacturers willing to share their source/paint supply? E.g. What about the weird Pinnacle Arkose 2 'blue' ?
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Fantastic workmanship and handy touch up tip. Advice to anyone with a laquer finish to be very careful when sanding the raised area of nail polish down. You may get a bit of a dull haze on surrounding paint. To finish off add some wax/polish to protect and blend this haze in. Did mine happy 😁
We’re is that shop at I wanna send my bike there
Ha ha ha have a bike means Graffiare, starla, and broke it .. who cry for a scratch is not a rider.
I got my bike serviced at a LBS and got it back last night. At home I noticed a chip on the down tube that had been camouflaged. I’m completely devastated 😢. I rang the shop, took the bike back so they could see for themselves but apparently it’s nobody…
I’m just hoping that the nail varnish trick will work because even though it’s a small chip, it’s all I can see now when I look at it 😭
I have a set of car touch-up paint for each of my bikes with a colour that comes very close. I have painted my 2021 Trek Domane AL Disc many times, the paint is extremely thin and susceptible to damage and I had to paint the whole head tube… Thank goodness the colour Purple Abyss matches really close with Volkswagen's LA4X Ultra Violet Metallic.
There is not a single tube on this bike that has at least three or more chips on it.
Yeah especially black like mine just look at it can scratch. I thought i was the only one who cared about stuff like that don't tell anyone ok
But I wax my bike bout every six months i know i know and I'll deny it if you tell anyone. Lol
Keepemcoming
"a small chip"… I'd like to introduce you to my two bikes: scratched all to hell and her sister halfway to hell
is this waterproof in rain?
How did you match the paint to the factory colour? I refurbish old frames from the 80s and 90s and I always have chips like this. I get the filling, sanding, and priming, but I seldom get a decent match.
What is the white masking material used?
I appreciate the craftmanship but I'll happily rock the small chips.
Should've gotten better and more close-ups of what he was doing.
What’s the masking material around the scratch before painting? Is it plasticine?
Thanks for this but my view is for mountain bike dont bother! Its meant to have hard life but then they are stronger made and also aluminum means no rust issues
Its hard for me cause my bike that got scratches on is the carrera vengeance ( green version) so the texture type of it is like galaxy type of green and not plain color. Any thoughts to solve this problem? if so please comment down below
with all that work would hate to think how much the frame cost orginally
Good video and I'm amazed how professional craftworker is, not common nowadays.
Amazing!
Yeah I have a few scratches and chips. I actually want to get my bike repainted. Because I wasn't crazy about the paint job to start with. It's a 13' Supersix. So it's due for a new color. What's a good place to have it done?