Frame protection

bikeit65
bikeit65 Posts: 999
in Road buying advice

What product do you guys use to protect your new glossy frame?

https://www.instagram.com/seanmcgrathphotography/
Trek Domane SL7 GEN4
Planet X RT58
Cannondale CAAD 10 2012.
Pain.. Is weakness leaving the body.

HATING LIFE-CYCLES FROM 2011

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,319
    edited May 5

    None. Currently 16 years old with some touch up paint and "patina".

    Oh! And a respray after 15 years. 🤣

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  • oxoman
    oxoman Posts: 414

    Never used to bother, however having wrecked the top tube finish on my best bike I now use clear 3m protection / helicopter tape. I only use it anywhere that something can or will rub on it.

    Too many bikes according to Mrs O.
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,973
    edited May 6

    Two of my bikes I've had professionally clear wrapped, and the bianchi road bike I have bought for my now 10 year old daughter, I have wrapped the top tube to protect it from her feet, and also down tube, front forks, and rear stays to try and save the immaculate paint from when she is inevitably careless.


    I've bought my stuff off of ebay iirc.

    Felt F70 05 (Turbo)
    Marin Palisades Trail 91 and 06
    Scott CR1 SL 12
    Cannondale Synapse Adventure 15 & 16 Di2
    Scott Foil 18
  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 678

    Never bothered myself. Quite like a bike that looks like it's lived a bit.

  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120

    Helicopter tape off Ebay

    It's just a hill. Get over it.

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