Spray.Bike colored our opinion of self painted bikes with their amazingly advanced spray paint, which is formulated to dry almost instantly as it turns into powder just inches from the nozzle. But what if you wanted to go metallic? Paint your bike gold, bronze or silver? Those proved awfully elusive for Spray.Bike founder Gareth Jones, so he went back to the lab…
Their standard colors are an acrylic base plus propellant and color. The metallic ones share the acrylic base and propellant, but use finely ground zinc powder that’s then anodized to one of four hues. Choose from Pewter Silver, Brass Gold, Bronze Gold and Copper. In the U.S., they’re available through Squid Bikes for about $17.99 per can. Gareth says you can probably coat one frame per can.
Squid Bikes makes the most of Spray.Bike’s paint, selling bare frames so you can paint them yourself. Sometimes, they get a little carried away…
Between the spray paint and paint pens, they get pretty creative.
