What are some of your Guy's secret tips and tricks to miscellaneous bicycle maintenance?
One of mine...
After applying stripper to forks/ cranks /frame take a piece of nylon rope (of desired length) and wrap it around the tube twice (2times seems to be the best amount as it generates more surface area and friction than once, but doesn't bind as much as three x). Take the two ends of the rope and pull on one side at a time while simultaneously moving it towards areas with paint. This method (I call it the "Indian burn") strips frames with minimal effort in minimal time and is extremely simple. HOWEVER when using paint stripper of any kind you should wear gloves a long speed shirt and eyewear especially because indianburning seems to fling deathly paint goo everywhere.
Oh and I forgot that unlike sanding it leaves the heat marks from the weld areas!
Pics of my freshly stripped, but soon to be painted 5aday thanks to my Foley! Pics up in 5
cell phone shitty pic.... It looks shinier and less fucked up in person!
And whole frame took 15 minutes. + a little for some tricky weld areas.
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