Chipped paint

[adrian]

This morning I noticed that a bit of paint has chipped off my top tube What to do? Do bike shops have touch-up sticks or the like?

[Snoop Doug]

Is your frame red? If it is you can come round and chip the right sized shape off my frame. I have about a zillion chips already so another won' make any difference.

Snoop

[huw williams]

It was that bloody gravel after Merstham

Training group went through Merstham at 30mph hit the roadworks and it was like someone fired a scatter gun at us - that brought the speed down fast enough I can tell you

Titanium bikes are impervious of course

[George]

[quote]that brought the speed down fast enough I can tell you

[huw williams]

The speed was comfortable enough - it was the ice-rink surface that was the problem - I could see all these stones flying around The Shadow's nice clean Ridley and thought "don't crash, don't crash"

On the way back a guy in a black ferrari convertible was going through there at 5mph with all these stones pinging off his bodywork - he had a face longer than a milkman's round - hillarious

Hey George - what say I photoshop a pic of you into the 100+ picture - tragic that you weren't there

[George]

[quote]Hey George - what say I photoshop a pic of you into the 100+ picture

[Andrew G]

You could try a bodyshop as they can colour match and would be ale to give you a little pot to take away to touch up any future ones as well. I know it works with cars, but never tried with bikes. You could ask them of speak to a frame resprayers as they may be able to do the same.

If the chip is near the seat tube depending on the position you may be able to cover it with a small name sticker?

[adrian]

Cheers, chaps. Maybe I could also go to OYB first to see if Cannondale do touch-up pots in their bike colours.

[huw williams]

Friday is madman day on CW.

Its the day when all the "enthusiastic" old school riders phone up with "great advice" for about 4 hours on a variety of unimportant cycling issues

Anyone one guy recently phoned up, I was unlucky enough to pick up the phone and the conversation went like this

Huw: "Hello, can I help?"

Punter: "Nail Varnish."

H: "I beg your pardon?"

P: "Nail Varnish."

H: That's what I thought you said. What about it?"

P: "Chipped the paintwork on my frame, took it to the shop. 'Hundred quid to respray it' said the man. Went to the chemist, bought some bright red nail-varnish. Good as new for a couple of quid. Bet your reader's don't know about that eh?"

H: "I'm sure I haven't seen many Colnagos repaired in that fashion your right."

P: "Well now you know. Want to know something else? If your carbon seat post gets stuck, get one of those gas bottles from a camping shop and..."

At this point I put the phone down before my frame as well as my ear started getting bent

So there you go Adrian "Nail Varnish"

[adrian]

[quote]Where is it exactly?

[huw williams]

Make sure you get a shade which matches that bandana

[Elliot M]

don't know about metallic blue but i have fixed small chips in black and white bikes with touch up sticks for cars from halfords. a bit like a lipstick but much harder wax type stuff. also have used coloured turtle wax car polish to keep overall colour sharp...

[Kasper]

[/quote][quote]If the chip is near the seat tube depending on the position you may be able to cover it with a small name sticker?

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote]bought some bright red nail-varnish.

[adrian]

Well, I never did.

Turns out Cannondale do touch-up pots, with applicator to boot. Eight quid a pot.

Huge relief all round.