painting bars

[Alexi]

anyone ever paint their drops?

[Fixed]

bro i know a cat that has a lil shop he paints the tri cats bars cos on all the salt water they get everywhere under the tape
cheers

[11.4]

There are a couple shops that will powdercoat or enamel bars. If it floats your boat, that's great. If you're putting brake levers on, don't paint under the brake levers -- it makes them slip. And either paint or powdercoat is quite slippery in the wet. Lastly, enamel does wear through and then looks rather funky (not like a nice old black enamel Leica that is considered to develop "patina" instead). If you powdercoat, don't let them powdercoat the clamp area for the stem -- that requires special masking since the powdercoat likes to go everywhere.

[FATBOY]

Lynskey seems to be pretty big on it lately. In fact, they seem to be keen an painting just about anything stems, posts, carbon rims.....

[Grant McLean]

JP Weigle paints the stems and the center part of the bars silver on his bikes.


-g