Painting the Double-Take Part 1

I decided to go with the Wheely Cool colors of white, blue and orange to give this bike lots of flair. Rust-O-leum has a new deluxe paint that looks promising.

I set the frame up on my bike stand (covered in newspaper) sitting on the seat post, ,upside down. With the seat post in the seat tube upside down, it allowed a good, balanced stand for the frame while allowing me to rotate the whole frame around to change angles for spraying. Although the only flaw with this method is the upside-down position made it hard to paint the top of the bike, which is what most people will see. So I had to crouch down and shoot the can upwards, getting lots of overspray in my face. Goggles helped, but a full face shield would have helped more.

While spraying the white primer, the can seemed to be defective and spewed lots of paint right out the sides of the valve, getting paint just about all over the can and my hand. Never seen anything like this, and I'm glad I draped the whole area. A smart person would have stopped and bought a new can of primer, but I'm on a schedule here, so I had to press on.

After one coat of white, it's looking pretty nice already, but we're not done yet. The white is a base for the real design... up next!