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We offer a variety of Paint options to work with your needs and budget paint refinishing

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paint & refinishing options

We offer a variety of Paint options to work with your needs & budget:

  • no paint or clear coat over repair options for the (fastest, cheapest)
  • modified paint to work around design and cost limitations
  • factory finish restoration of paint and graphics (where possible) full custom resprays

No Paint or Clear Coat or Matte / Gloss Black Over Repair

Our cheapest and quickest option repairs the broken Carbon Fibre and leaves the bike with a cool carbon fibre finish. Matte / Gloss clear coat or matte / gloss black will be smoother and give a little more protection.

Modified Finish – Simplified Paint & Graphics Over Repair

A re-interpretation of colours / graphics and makes your bike extra special while keeping costs down. This is best discussed in person.

Factory Finish – Replicate Existing Paint & Graphics Over Repair

The premium level is Factory Finish, which replicates your existing paint and graphics – most expensive and time-consuming. Not always possible.

Full Custom Respray

Let your bike be a blank canvas. Our full custom resprays sit at a bespoke concours level for only the most top end bikes. We are limited by capacity and will only take the best work. The process starts with a phone call, then a face to face meeting to confirm.

Paint processes

Prepping the Carbon Fibre

  • Carbon repair ready to be sanded smooth and to shape
  • We then apply undercoat or clear coat as the base
  • No body fillers are ever used.

Paint Process

  • With the undercoat and sanded smooth and fair.

Add base colour or graphics colour (job dependent)

Apply graphics masking

Apply main colour

Removing graphics masking

  • Remove graphics masking
  • Repeat process for multiple colours or graphics

Apply clear coat over final finish colour and graphics

Clear coat applied.

Polish frame to class A finish – no orange peel

Class A finish

TECH TALK – PAINT PROCESSES

General

Relative Costs of Repair & Painting.
Paint processes are often more expensive than the carbon repair, due to the number of processes involved, along with the need to allow for drying times between processes. Surface preparation (ie sanding), producing logo files/ cutting graphics and masking is a precise and time-consuming activity.

Special Effects

Paints such as chrome finish are extremely expensive. The cost of the paint and the number of processes involved contributes significantly to the cost.

Fluorescent Finishes.

The colour of these finishes rapidly deteriorates in sunlight (UV) and because of this fact, Carbon Bike Doctor does not use these finishes. The fluoro finishes are not colour fast/ or durable. It is for this reason we choose not to spray them, as we want our work to last.

Issues to be Addressed before Paint Process commences

Is the frame finished in matte paint?

Unlike gloss finishes, matte paint does not allow a small local area to be re-sprayed. There will be a ‘blend line’ between new and old paint, that cannot be polished out. Steps can be taken to minimise the visual effects. Often face to face discussions result in a workable solution that can avoid the re-spraying of the complete frame which results in a reduction of the overall repair cost. We can offer a seamless paint repair with matte and satin, though it requires spraying the whole frame and often the fork, so everything matches perfectly.

Is it possible to reproduce the graphics in paint?

Yes, most of the time. Any small print / fine detailed graphics may not be possible to paint. The machine that cuts out the masking graphics for the paint/ graphics process has limitations of how small it can cut. Discussions at the time of bike drop-off will determine if a loss of these graphics can be lived with, or not. Printing of graphics on a sticker printer is not a feasible option. Access to the special screen printing machines that the factories use for the bike brands, is simply not available locally.

Does the Frame utilise Heat or Water Transfers?

Latest graphics are now likely to be applied by heat transfers or water transfers, rather than graphics painted on. In the event that a carbon repair encroaches these graphics, we do not have a satisfactory way of restoring these graphics. Replacement graphic transfers are not available on the open market, nor do they seem to be available direct from the distributors of the bikes. The only option is total removal and replacement with painted graphics of the Customer’s choosing.