I have a Cervelo Dual (red w/ white paint scheme) and I want to paint it all white. Any ideas on how to go about it? I’ve seen some bikes on here (especially a couple of Cervelo’s that have been re-painted) and I was hoping someone could give me the rundown on how to do it properly.
I repainted my Cervelo Dual to all black. What I did was got it blasted for $40.00 down to raw aluminum then gave it too a friend to have it painted at the Rocky Mountain Bicycle Factory for a good price. I actually had the Dual painted as well as my Aluminum Giant TCR for the normal price of painting one bike.
If you live in a good area, there should be a company that can spray the bike for you. Just talk to the LBS and see who they suggest. I am lucky as Dekerf is local as well and does custom paint jobs. It was not that much to get done actually and it looks a lot better now than that ugly white and red paint scheme.
Noaces
I just had a frame repainted by a local guy here in Denver. He did an amazing job - I will be posting pictures later this week of the final build. He can do ANYTHING you want on the frame - just white would be no problem. He strips it and then totally repaints the entire frame.
Very reasonable as well.
His name is Tim Smith, and he also restores high-end cars.
PM me if you want his phone number
DB
I painted one frame myself. If you do, I recommend not stripping the old paint for a couple of reasons, but the biggest being that the new paint will stick better to the factory job than if you tried to prime it yourself. Degreasing properly is extremely important. Also an appropriate primer if you are going to use urethane based paint. I used House of Kolor and an airbrush to paint mine.
Oh…it is a hell of a lot cheaper if you pay someone to do it. I did mine because I wanted to, not to save money.
If I had to, I’d paint it myself but I’d rather let a professional handle it. Anybody know of someone who can re-paint this in the San Deigo area? I know there are a ton of my “neighbors” here…
I LOVE my repainted Cervelo!!! My LBS has a guy they use and all I did was drop the bike off with sketches of what my idea was and that was it. Well, there were multiple phone calls later to discuss the paint scheme, but it turned out fabulous.
Forget liquid paint get it Powdercoated- the stuff is like iron plate. Here is my P3 which was powder coated.
how much more will that run me?
Isn’t that “e” on the non drive side tilted the wrong way?
Not trying to hijack the thread but what about a carbon bike?
I like the Cervelo for now…not quite ready to drop that much coin. I figure I’ve got about a year left before making the jump. With my Hed3’s on it’s comfortable enough to get me through IMAZ and then I’ll start looking. I just hate the red & white scheme…
I had mine done by www.spectrumpowderworks.com they pretty much specialize in powder coating bikes. so they are careful to cover up threads and careful how the media blast so they don’t burn through thin walled AL like our bikes have. i stripped my bike down myself and rebuilt and paid to have it shipped to Colorado springs which was about $25 via UPS. I paid spectrum $400 to strip, PC and ship back. I would say a plain color like just white will be a ton less. But if you want to dress it up you can, below are few from their web page- there is some crazy stuff on it. I found a few white ones for you, but I love the glitter look of the last one in Red and blue.
This site has a list of shops that do custom painting: http://www.bikeschool.com/links/links.cgi
I believe this shop is in SD: http://www.cyclart.com/
A Portland shop that’s not listed, but does phenomenal work is Acme Paint.
scott
Sorry man…should have been more specific. I meant what about re-painting a carbon bike.
Also, could help you resolve that white/red scheme you dont like.
Here is the Dual that was repainted. I have since switched out a few parts so when I have some time to finish it off, I will take some new pictures. I have since added the Easton Attach TT bars, Bontrager Aero Carbon levers, Cervelo Single position carbon post, Nokon shifter and brake housings, Arundel Carbon Chrono Cage and Bottle and inner and outer carbon cage with Ti spring for the rear derailleur.
I got a blue and white P2K a few years ago. I wanted it to be red.
I took it to the best local and extremely well respected specialist bike painter (also an awesome triahtlete and coach!!) I told him what I wanted it to look like and he made it better than I could have ever imagined. Walter Thorburn here paints lotsa bikes and does all the national teams bikes. Everything I’ve ever seen from him has blown me away. From simple one colour jobs to all singing all dancing wild paint jobs. He makes them all look truly fantastic. Almost too good to ride!
After 4 years of pretty regular use and in and out of my car many many times, it has a few dings and to my wanking pedantic eye, needs to be refreshed, but that’s just me.
Get a pro to do it and you can’t go wrong.
Wow - I had no idea such things could be done with powdercoat…
Freakin awesome huh- After seeing that I wish I had waited to get mine done. Dupont and all the other power manufacturers are coming out with stuff all the time. Soon PC will over take liquid. I am actually working with a guy to PC sheet steel in coil- Think cars, planes, appliances, anything big …it’s huge.
I’m curious about repainting a carbon frame as well.
KC
I’m curious about repainting a carbon frame as well.
KC
The only company I know that will repaint any brand carbon bike is Calfee. They’ll charge you for it, but it’ll look stellar.
Otherwise fire off an e-mail to the company through their customer support e-mail addy. I know Trek will repaint your bike for a fee – as long as it’s a Trek.
Don’t expect carbon repainting to be cheap anywhere, though. You can’t blast it off, and there are very few chemical strippers that can be used without damaging the structural resin. All in all, it’s a very time intensive process.