How To Restore Paint On A Retro Steel Bike | Trash To Treasure

[@gcntech]

What do you think of Ollie's new paint job? 👀 Would you like to see more DIY and bike painting videos? This version is now available in 1080p Premium! Relax and enjoy this viewing experience! 🎥

[@DetroitJohnny]

Could someone drop a link to where the decals came from? Please.

[@feedbackzaloop]

Now that is quality allows to see all the details, must point out you put one set of decals upside down and got a Cube logo on the seattube

[@scottf3456]

Yeah I think this is cool. Ollie is lucky he gets to do stuff like this for work.

[@1afterthep]

A question or video idea for gcn tech: How does full internal cable routing (cockpit too) work for mechanical group sets. I've seen it and was baffled because I thought it wasn't possible.

[@Still_Dracco]

@@DetroitJohnny Ollie probably got them from H Lloyd, a Britsh company that supplies decals for a very wide range of bikes. Not much help if you're in Detroit, though. The go-to supplier in the US used to be Velocals, but they closed down a couple of years ago.

[@skipwalker1954]

Watching the look on Ollie's face during this process is similar to watching a little kid wake up Christmas morning. Priceless! Great job!

[@Seppster58]

Wow!! That revision to HD from 480p sure makes that frame shine even better. Thanks GCN for this.

[@ronitb372]

This is one of my favorite videos on GCN. Feels like a real labour of love.

[@bicyclist2]

I love these old Italian steel bikes. They ride so smooth. Thanks so much for reviving this one. Please keep up the good work. Thank you.

[@01FozzyS]

Beautiful work as always,Ali and Becs!

[@reddevil211287]

I got goosebumps when the clear coat came on. Magical stuff Ollie!

[@wirtualnepiaseczno8086]

Hope to see in the future, more restorings of old bikes 🚲💨

[@lucafwn]

What I love is that you repainted it from scratch, but you went the whole extra kilometer(*) to make it as close to the original as possible. Great choice! I've seen too many videos of old bikes repainted in absurd colours just for the sake of it. -- (*) It's an Italian bike after all...

[@chrisofthecog]

This is a wonderful project, I would love to see more of this kind of thing. Very enjoyable.

[@interceptor7905]

Old Showel YT channel does these restorations as well

[@cra_55]

HD remaster. You love to see it.

[@raysmith4078]

Thank you. This video helped me decide on how I'm going to restore my next bike.

[@nicmorton280]

Interesting video, great results so far, thanks 🏁

[@JensDueOhlsen]

Love the video. Thanks for all your work.

[@DanielFrench]

The blue and yellow SWORKS in the background (01:59) is my frame which I collected from them just this week…. Ali and Becs did an absolutely incredible job (my frame had over 2000 stencils (09:05)), their attention to detail, communication and enthusiasm are second to none. If you are thinking of getting your frame repainted, these are the guys to use. I’ll put a video of the completed bike on my channel in the next few days.

[@jamesfortune243]

Brilliant!

[@paolopetrozzi2213]

Very interesting, thanks.

[@steveherring8494]

Hi Ollie, I’m so excited for your project. I’m pretty much doing same as you but I’m going to powder coat the first color. My bike is a 1965 schwinn continental. I’m going to be putting campagnolo veloce 10. Ive got a few more things to track down. I’m sure yours is going to be pretty nice.

[@endcensorship874]

I see that the idea of “mailing it in around Christmas” has made it to the UK

[@toddbagley1775]

Great video, it is inspiring.

[@TheRokko66]

I would have preserved the patina of this frame, it is telling a history. Reminds me of my younger years because I am way older than this frame☺😉

[@dgillies5420]

If are lucky you might find a red color that's a close match, then you can just sand, prime, and respray the top-tube. Unfortunately the lugs aren't lined as this can help to hid the respray (you must redo the lug-lining but the lining tends to disguise any change in color from the top tube to the head lugs.)

[@ReportReport-fz2pn]

One tip when using a flit can, immerse the can in hot water for five or ten minutes, shake, re-immerse for five minutes in fresh hot water, shake, repeat a couple more times. Dry the can so water doesn't drip off. Helps paint to spray more finely, and flow out better on the primer.

[@martinwarne]

Eh? Didn't I watch this yesterday?

[@risesir]

Nah, that was a different vintage Italian steel frame that just happens to look exactly the same. Weird, right?

[@Se7enFive]

You are in Matrix

[@matt_acton-varian]

The original version was uploaded in 480p standard definition, but they have re-uploaded it in HD 1080p

[@reinholdachleitner2069]

​@@risesir😂

[@doctorscoot]

Am I trapped, like you, in video repeats? Send help?!

[@Millicente]

Wow this second (third?) paint job has so much more definition!

[@gcntech]

🧐

[@jimlamberton2435]

Love what you did, please tell us who you got the decals from?

[@ajridez002]

So nothing that was shown was done with something that most people have at home. It would be nice to see the results from using for example spray paint in a can. Still it’s fun to watch how it’s done professionally.

[@thomasclougher2281]

They've done that video first, quite a while ago. There's quite a few videos they've done spraying with rattle cans and home prep methods with sandpaper.

[@thecsabel]

My thoughts exactly

[@JohnsVintageRoadBikeGarage]

I wish I had the patience and skill to paint bikes myself. Save myself some doh!!

[@jimlamberton2435]

I respect the views of the posters who feel doing this restoration erased the story of this individual bike. However, the factory back in the day built many, many copies of this bike. If you want a patina bike, they can be found. If this was a truly rare bike, I would agree with the preservationists.

[@sleepintheheat]

You appear to have painted over the dropout adjusters, were they seized in?

[@mshowers5246]

Are you going to share where you bought the decals from? I would love to have a supplier for these - as I'm certain MANY other viewers would too. Thanks.

[@dgillies5420]

See the main base message for a list of the 3 largest decal sellers.

[@Verkehrskegel.87]

Re-upload... But why day 14 not ep. 2? Did I miss 13 days of uploads? Looks awesome though

[@InitialP_Photography]

Original video was only 480p

[@gcntech]

@@InitialP_Photography bingo! for some reason it didn't process in HD!

[@kikong80]

hollyy.... Nooooo the dropouts screws painted !!! 14:46

[@AMehta-ok5pf]

Looks amazing! I know a lot of older Italian bikes were fully chromed under the paint. Can you still bead blast those?

[@brian.d.mobley]

Not to be a know it all, but one small tip I can add to the painting process is to start with the hard to reach areas first.

[@gutzboy1]

So Ollie touched with bare hands the primered frame when feeling for bumps, and when wet sanding, and when applying the decals. Did he clean the frame each time before applying new coats of paint to get rid of any oily residue?

[@Savetime101]

I think this has been reposted due to the poor video quality of the first version. Thanks for rectifying GCN

[@gcntech]

no worries!

[@emmabird9745]

Ollie, lovely finish but what are you going to do inside the tubes, so it doesn't rust from the inside out?

[@peterhadfield873]

de ja vous all over again :-)

[@bikepackingadventure7913]

Something someone can do at home Let’s chuck it in the blast cabinet Yes - we all have a blast cabinet at home :-/

[@feedbackzaloop]

Reupload in the name of repaint? Supernice! 🔔🔔🔔

[@gcntech]

👨‍🎨

[@SteveFullerBikes]

"I want to teach you how you can do this at home, yourselves", then proceeds use a spray gun instead of the cans ;) Great video despite that. :) Link to the decal supplier?

[@MrPinolatino]

14:48 man you have did a good job but don't overestimate your self!

[@dgillies5420]

Note: When repainting a bike, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO CHANGE THE COLOR. It doesnt have to be red after it's repainted !!! :-) :-)

[@steveschmidt2690]

Where are decals from. I've tried to find in US. Not much luck.

[@steveschmidt2690]

Looking for old Schwinn

[@pedro_8240]

Is this a re-upload of the same video? But this time at 1080p instead of 480p?

[@davidhellyer5353]

must be Groundhog Day repeat

[@Se7enFive]

Just make a T-Shirt with the title 480p and give it to Ollie in a Christmas 😂😂😂

[@yosacfc]

Sandblasting has destroyed the crome plating below the paint. You should keep some parts with crome plating exposed

[@tc4724]

please advise sizes of your paint gun tips

[@matteo.ceriotti]

You can tell Alex about sandblasting, after his last video spending many hours sandpapering the cranks 😂

[@happyharry7331]

Is there a price mentioned ?

[@GilbertTang]

The old version had a certain old-timey BBC quality to it though.

[@dgillies5420]

I noticed you skipped the step of sanding the red layer smooth. This should not be skipped. The paint - even if applied very thinly - will still tend to have a mottled or orange-peel look if you don't do light wet-sands after each color layer. To get that show car finish, a wet sand after every final color layer is required. Wet-sanding after the clearcoat is too late.

[@Handletaken4]

You'll never ride a stiff carbon tennis racket again.

[@savagepro9060]

Wait! Wait! Isn't that a repost?

[@gcntech]

nope. This one is in HD!

[@reinholdachleitner2069]

It was perfectly watchable in the lower resolution.🤷‍♂️

[@isaacrosenberg3795]

Guys, you're just super talented into ruining good steel bikes, its incredible. You had a full chrome plated frame - its is very expensive to make now, its almost make this bike to be corrosion resistant (almost like stainless). And you ruined it, no words were spoken about considering to save it! You ruined one of the main features of this frame. So "better than it was before" is just a joke here. Mirror shine at places where paint peel of its a feature, its something unique. Now if you get a scratch it will bleed with rust. No words about how you can use chrome - cromevelato effect, no words about why this surface is nice to have, that its protect frame from rust. Nothing. No words about "if you chose bright color and making it outside - be aware of insects that will want to sit on a fresh brite paint". I don't know how, but every video about steel bikes you're so disappointing me, just team of just speaking heads that have no passion for bikes, who are not really young, but so narrow-minded about modern bikes so don't have any knowledge about good old things that you sometimes decide to touch.

[@tedwingate]

Blasting the chrome was painful to watch. Exposed chrome on the lugs and stays would have been a sharp look too.

[@jeremynorth]

I don't understand why he said you have to degrease before you remove the paint. Media blasting removes everything

[@sandwichbar8226]

Re-upload?

[@gcntech]

yeah, for some reason the first one didn't process into HD! We like things done properly!

[@newhorizons.english]

Way better now. 👍

[@gcntech]

phew!

[@vanwilder1101]

Made the frame too heavy - don't need that much paint, ridiculous

[@patrickpointer8380]

Slightly confused Did i not watch this episode yesterday?

[@MarlonBonelli]

hahaha the reupload after they realised they only uploaded in 480p

[@tw7518]

"I want you to restore this in a way that someone at home can do" . "Not a problem, im just going to degrease this and put it in the BLAST CABINET" !!!!! Who has a blast cabinet at home ??

[@gcntech]

Ollie

[@Se7enFive]

@@gcntech right answer: Ollie 480p

[@matthewbaynham6286]

It's a shame you didn't just put clear coat on there so that people could admire the look of the shiny metal.

[@Historyrevenge777]

What a load of utter con as per usual from GCN makes out you can do the whole thing from a rattle can then gets someone to do it for him for free whilst doing staged bits himself don't be fooled by this nonsense if you had to pay for a sand blast and paint job you are looking at £500 at least

[@tomkunich9401]

Steel frames can get water inside the frame and rust from the inside out. So blasting can poke holes into what appeared to be a perfect frame. Very careful tapping on the frame and fork can find the weak areas before trying to refinish the frameset. Rather than paint, powder coating makes a very durable finish.

[@dgillies5420]

I am 100% against powder coating because it's almost impossible to ever remove and moreover its very thick and obscures the fine details of well-brazed lugs.

[@stuartjones7491]

I have exactly the frame they restored here ( Bottecchia 989, bought in the early 90s, brand new, for £90 - they were considered near worthless at the time) and I had it restored. The first magical thing that happened is I used paint-stripper on the forks, only to find that they were perfectly and fully chromed under the paint. I was delighted. I thien took it it a finisher who persuaded me to powder coat the frame. When I collected it I immediately handed it back to them and asked them to bed blast off the powder coating and stove enamel it. The powder coating was vile. It was so tick it (as the post below said) removed all the fine detail and had a terrible orange-peel finish. I then collected it stove enamelled in gloss black and had the Bottecchia decals done as per the Saronni Bottecchia of the 80s. I Would never powder coat anything I wanted a detail finish on. It's ok for car suspension parts etc, but not for something you want to cast a fine eye over. ps I got the decals from cyclomondo.net (though they weren't 989 decals)

[@vanwilder1101]

Learn how to pronounce Italian names

[@Groggycyclist]

I’m not watching GCN anymore after seeing that 🤦‍♂️ paint doesn’t stick to chromed stainless steel it will peal off like a sunburn

[@paulstelling3099]

Not exactly something you can do at home. 😂

[@trevejenkyn9888]

Removing the paint I feel removed the 'sole' of the bike, you might as well have brought a new frame an old bike should have reminders of its history not look new, really sorry but I found it very sad to watch the paint being removed, as all the bikes history has been lost, there is nothing of its history left

[@isaacrosenberg3795]

They also made a so smart decision to remove chrome plating (steel should rust huh?) with no words about pros of saving it, I don't know how they can be so consistent in ruining old bikes.

[@Nub.CS-2]

First

[@gcntech]

@Nub.CS-2 🥇🫶

[@Se7enFive]

You are clearly not

[@jameslee-pevenhull5087]

Too expensive. Powder coat every day.

[@stuartjones7491]

yes, powder coat if you want not to spend much and have a cheap gloopy finish.

[@windbagfusspot6155]

That's not restoring, it's destroying a beautiful original finish that could have been revived and shown it's interesting life history and provenance. People do the same re polishing antique furniture only to find it's now lost 80% of its market value. Lost forever.