u/ElStellino

Paint suggestion

Paint suggestion

I want to repaint my bicycle. I was thinking of gloss red or yellow, one color, but if you have any cool livery suggestions, please share!

Something that goes with my tan sidewalls, pls. No problem for saddle or bar tape.

Anyway, here's the question. Where can I buy here in Europe (Amazon) or locally (Spain) good paints to use for my steel frame?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: this bike isn't factory painted. It was originally pink and the previous owner spray painted it in black to sell it faster. While photogenic, it isn't of a great finishing. And perhaps, after so many people getting tricked, I will replicate those white bands with rainbow stripes over a different, brighter color, hopefully applied better than this 🙂
It isn’t an expensive exotic either: its make is AJAR, made in Portugal, and I reckon it is a mid-tier bike. Routed back brake cable, Gipiemme dropouts, rear ones with wheel adjustment, slender tubing but not butted. The components aren’t that expensive, although of good quality.
Sulky CLB caliper brakes, Sulky drilled levers - both unknown to me, but work very well and I like them.
It had a Simplex trasnmission of which both delrin derailleurs exploded: the front one to the previous owner, the rear one to me, so it now has a Shimano no model front derailleur and a Campagnolo Centaur 10 speed rear derailleur (and Simplex shifters to be swapped with Campagnolo Record ones once I paint the frame).
Shimano MF-TZ500-6 freewheel cogs (but I want to put a 7 speed period correct Sunrace with the same 14-28 range I found second hand - still to buy it)
Gurpil hubs, Rigida alloy wheels, stainless steel spokes.
A cheap Aliexpress saddle, a French made handlebar.
It is already a frame with which I can experiment, and the idea with this bicycle is to "dress it up" until one day I will find a nicer unmolested and unpainted frame where transferring everything on.

u/ElStellino — 17 hours ago
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Are these 5€ lost?

Hello, I found this frame for 5€, and decided to get it because I recently got interested (again) in BMX at my "tender" age.

I would like to get it because it's a L, I'm 190cm tall and I know I would struggle to find a frame for me. Although I don't like the rear stays open in that way, I thought I could build it up and use it until when I find a better frame, and then I will transfer everything there.

Is it a sound plan, or are they 5€ thrown away?

https://preview.redd.it/ilmzkuswu60h1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9e4641397616da6edfa6eb44f784e4d0a195cbd

https://preview.redd.it/jwvr2vswu60h1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4e0f4d5bae2399eb094f3b1ba5f4b8664c28664

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u/ElStellino — 5 days ago

I did the flash mod, thanks to u/The_cooler_ArcSmith who posted about it 6 years ago in this sub!

I used a small dot of solder with the soldering iron at 520°C, the hottest possible to be as fast as I could. It worked out well. Link and other photos below

u/ElStellino — 10 days ago