Outdoor Bike Rack

Step 9 Optional paint job

I've decided to paint the bike rack.

First i used some sandpaper to smooth out all the poles, cracks & corners.
Then i used a can of Glossy White Rust-Oleum spray paint.

I ended up using the entire can. Now she'll never rust! Ani't she pretty in white?!

Comments

[Hycro]

It looks nice, though I'm partial to painting things black...my bike was a grey/black two tone when I bought it, then once the store's return warranty (30 days, since it was what I call a "Walmart Bike", one of those $100 jobs, though it's fared quite well, though the fork I put in it not long after I got it was a bit wore out from the previous owner, and the alloy rims that came with it were garbage...the first flat I got with it, involved me changing the back rim too, and that was pushing it only about a kilometre (a little more than half a mile) to where I was staying the night...and under the bike's own weight it totalled the rim, there was no way I could get a tire bead to stay in the grooves it was so mangled...and I think the tube caught onto the freewheel while I was pushing it and stopped the whole thing dead, grinding a big flat spot in the rim...after that, I went to my trusty steel rims, the fact that they're heavier gave it more vertical stability at high speeds (centrifugal forces at work:P) But now that I'm rebuilding it, I've decided to put half decent aluminum alloy rims on it, see if I can boost my over all speed by shaving a few pounds off it, changing my pedal arms to aluminum as well, and my stem, and the fork I'm using now is threadless, so I can't use my one-piece bar/stem combo that has a triangular space on it that I had my air horn's pressure gauge mounted into...)