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ok, so i have a murray monterey, mens and womens. i think with the womans bike im going to do a powder blue with white accents and do kinda a 50's hotrod theme. i have the chain guard painted nice deep, metal flake dark blue, and i think that ill put that on something else since its got 9 coats...

ok, so i got my first long bike and its been a b*tch with a few geometrical mistakes...but whatever, ill make it work! the issue im having is the fork is sooo raked its .... near close to horizontal, and when i ride the front wheel will flop to either the left or right no matter how hard i...

Ive started Charleston Bike Rescue & Rehab, and most of the bikes Ive got and sold Ive just repainted flat black. Ive done other colours,but I need ideas. Pics appreciated I am hoping to do some bikes to appeal to the college crowd, and all I have access to is walmart and auto places for rattle...

ok, im working on this bike and had it completely painted and all was well, but the finish was slightly rough in some spots. i wet sanded the bike 100% with 2000 grit, let it dry then repainted. now several spots keep wrinkling up and just coming off like a .... blister while others are orange...

im new to the site, a friend turned me onto this place. since i started lurking here, ive started charleston bike rescue and rehab, taking old beat up bikes people dont want anymore because its cheaper to buy a walmart bike now and fixing them to useable and selling to broke college kids and...

just wondering, i just started to get into old bikes, im used to getting about 10 murray montereys a week, lol. i picked up an orange hollywood in need of a few spokes, but in otherwise good condition. it was stored on its side under a house, so the left white grip is brown. anyway to clean...

okie, so ive been redoing several bikes. ive never had the best results in keeping the paint on after i get it all pretty on the bike. i use krylon and rustoleum cans. heres what i do: sand whole bike with 400 grit primer with self etching, several light coats till uniform colour sand down...

ill post pics as soon as i can figure out how. i found, for a whopping $10 what was thought to be a 60's touring bike. 3 speed shimmano on the bar, knuckle grips, tan leather seat and it looked brown. after i cleaned it up (that took a while...) i found its purple. dark, metallic purple...

ok, so i decided to pick up a few bikes for cheap, paint em henry ford style (you can have any colour you want as long as its flat black) and sell them. ive bought and sold a few bikes, but im venturing out onto craigslist to drum up some more revenue. my questions are thus: after ive painted...