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Every design below is a real job, photographed in our shop or the day it left. Each one has a short note on how the look was built, because what a design costs and how long it takes come down to how much of it is masked, sprayed or painted by hand.
If something here is close to what you want, we can paint it on your frame. Start with custom bicycle painting to see how the process works.
Fades, panels and single custom colors. These are the designs that take the least hand work, which makes them the ones people usually land on first.
Trek aero road frame
A fade is the cheapest custom paint design to ask for and the hardest to spray well, because there is no masking line to hide behind. This one runs matte black at the head tube into gloss white at the seat tube, with the Trek wordmark left in white over the dark end.
Specialized SL6 road frame
White frame, burnt orange top tube, and a blue and purple flip where the seat stays meet. The design is four masked panels rather than any freehand work, which is why this kind of custom bicycle paint design stays on the affordable end.
Specialized SL7 road frame
Candy is a transparent color sprayed over a metallic base, so the base keeps reading through and the frame changes depth as you walk around it. The shamrock is a soft-edged shadow under the clear rather than a decal on top of it.
Canyon Aeroad road bike
One color, mixed to match Alfa Romeo Verde Montreal, over the whole frame and fork. A single custom-mixed color is the simplest road bike art there is, and it still looks nothing like a stock frame.
Read how this one was painted
Trek Discovery Channel road frame
Not every custom job is a new idea. This is a Discovery Channel team frame put back to the original blue, black and white scheme, with the TREK wordmarks and arrow graphics resprayed rather than replaced with stickers.
Artwork, textures and patterns that only exist on one frame. Everything below was designed for the rider who asked for it.
BH road frame
A Piet Mondrian composition mapped onto a frame that curves in every direction, which is the hard part: the black grid lines have to stay straight to the eye as the tube turns away. Each red, blue and yellow block was masked and sprayed on its own.
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Specialized S-Works road frame
Crackle paint splits as it dries, so the texture underneath is real rather than printed. Here it runs candy green at the top tube into candy magenta at the seat tube, with hand-lettering on the head tube and a splattered fork.
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Specialized Chisel frame
The dragon is painted by hand, not stencilled and not a decal. It goes straight onto the black metallic base and then gets buried under clear coat, so you can run a hand over the tube and feel nothing.
Wilier Triestina road frame
Every hexagon is a masked cell, sprayed gold over a deep black base and repeated across the frame, fork and seatpost so the pattern lines up across the joints. The bars were faded blue to white separately.
Scott aero road bike
A marbled finish where no two panels repeat, carried across the frame, fork, bars, seatpost and even the cable covers. Matching a random pattern across separate components is the part that takes the time.
Gravel frame with ENVE components
The marbled carbon here is the frame itself, left bare under clear instead of being painted over. The gold is sprayed only on the lug areas, so the finish reads as two materials rather than one paint job.
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Nukeproof Forbes enduro frame
Teal, purple, magenta, yellow and red laid over each other in shapes that never repeat, carried around the rocker link and down into the chainstays. A design like this has no straight line to mask against, so the frame gets broken into sections and sprayed in sequence.
Guerciotti steel road frame
Carbon is not a requirement. This is a steel Guerciotti faded blue to white to red, with the yellow script and the rainbow bands sprayed back on and the Paolo Guerciotti signature returned to the top tube.
The simple designs on this page are the ones people most often try at home, and a fade or a single custom color is a reasonable first project. Read how a carbon frame gets painted first, particularly the part about the 8 to 20 hours of stripping, then decide.
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