vinyl wrap

jpower

Greetings, I have a carbon fibre frame, paintwork is mostly black but there lots of red striping and finally have got fed up of the red. I don't want to spend a fortune on doing so, don't want to wreck the paintwork either, been advised that I would void my warranty too, however if I wrap it, then no issues.

Anyone done this, maybe there other mad people like me out there Any advise, just looking to go Matt Black, which is most of the bike anyway.

rickypj

Hi I've worked with vinyl wrap before covering some vehicle parts. I imagine to wrap a frame would be Hard work/Impossible as you would end up with lots of joins and tricky edges to try to make neat.

I would recommend using a product called plasti Dip, Its a rubberised paint in an aerosol can you can get it an a variety of colours including Matt Black that is pretty robust but does peel off if you decided to go back to the original colour. I've used it on my cycle helmet with good results. Check it out on youtube.

jpower

That dip stuff seems pretty good may have to consider that. Just wondering I know it comes off pretty easy if you don't have it on too long, is it still ok to come off a couple of years down the line?

By the way i wasn't planning on wrapping the whole bike, just the parts with red strips, got some on order last night, so might try a piece and so how it works out.

jpower

Returned the wrap, going for the spray option, bought some http://www.halfords.com/motoring/paints ... pray-black

Now need some time to clean the bikes, going to try out on my crosstrail bike first.

cougie

Interesting first post and just six months later too.

daniel_b

This is my effort with wrap and pinstripe - originally looked like this:


Now looks like this:


Granted it also has different wheels, stem, handlebar and saddle, but you get the idea.

I made sure the frame was clean, using medical wipes, and heated the frame a bit first, and put the wrap on whilst continuing to heat it with the hairdryer - was pretty easy actually - I put the joins underneath, or on the inside so they are not very visible, and no one that sees it guesses it is not painted that way.

I just picked a random ebay seller, can dig out the details if anyone wants it, was stupidly cheap for the amount I needed.

Personally paint seems a bit to permanent to me, and I would be too worried I would balls it up - with wrap if you do that, you just go again.

pilot_pete

And you think that is an improvement? Sorry but it looks like it has fallen into a post-it note pile!

PP

imposter2.0

As above - not even sure if that's a serious post or not. You could have achieved the same effect with some yellow electrical tape. Looks really awful, sorry.