Ugly bike paint?

I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Thanks!

On Feb 4, 10:32*pm, Ronko wrote:
I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Thanks!

Spiral tape it with electrical tape.

On Feb 4, 11:32*pm, Ronko wrote:
I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Thanks!

Barf on it after you lock it up.

On Feb 5, 4:32*am, Ronko wrote:
I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Thanks!

A few months ago I was standing on a pavement in North Main Street,
Cork, looking at some bikes chained to seats that someone had taken
several spray cans to. A guy stopped next to me, also looking at the
bikes.

'Terrible thing to do to a nice bike,' I said.

He looked at me pityingly. 'They do it to deter thieves,' he said.

'Well, in that case,' I said, 'they want to choose colours with two
per cent or more of black in them and spray them wet on wet to make
some dull, unattractive mixes, not those bright pastels in thin coats
with drying time in between. Those bikes as they are painted now look
like works of art, and the three together all in the same semi-random
colour scheme reinforce the argument.'

Once I understood it was supposed an anti-theft device, it was also
easy to see how counterproductively it had been done -- if it was done
seriously, which of course it was not. It was instead an urban-chic
statement.

*****

You'd do well to paint the bike in primer, enough layers to start
looking incompetent, then a layer of maybe some red or dark green,
then a layer of black, all this without rubbing any coat, and then
when it is dry rub it hard enough with emery cloth to rub through the
thin top but not the primer so that the bike is mainly primer, which
will soon look dirty in any city, plus some irregular splotches of
your other colours. The advantage is that, when you're want to return
the bike to decent society, you can just rub down the primer a couple
of layers. This isn't a wash-off job but at least your prep will have
been protected all along under the dirt.

Andre Jute
The rest is magic hidden in the hub.
For rare hub gear bikes, visit Jute on Bicycles at
http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/fiultra/...20CYCLING.html

Ronko wrote:

I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Shelf paper looks pretty cruddy when used as frame wrap. Electrical
tape works too, but in my opinion it's almost to the point of becoming
code for "undercover decent bike".

Don't forget to use an unspeakable saddle panty-- nobody wants to be
seen with that:
http://www.aerotechdesigns.com/seatc...lycraseatcover

Chalo

On 02/05/2010 05:32 AM, Ronko wrote:
I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

http://www.hammerite.com/uk/products/exterior.html

The paint of youfs all over the world.

Chalo Colina wrote:
Ronko wrote:
I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Shelf paper looks pretty cruddy when used as frame wrap. Electrical
tape works too, but in my opinion it's almost to the point of becoming
code for "undercover decent bike".

Don't forget to use an unspeakable saddle panty-- nobody wants to be
seen with that:
http://www.aerotechdesigns.com/seatc...lycraseatcover

No covers with fake "skid marks"?

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007

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On Feb 5, 4:32*am, Ronko wrote:
I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut
down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like
that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Thanks!

A few months ago I was standing on a pavement in North Main Street,
Cork, looking at some bikes chained to seats that someone had taken
several spray cans to. A guy stopped next to me, also looking at the
bikes.

'Terrible thing to do to a nice bike,' I said.

He looked at me pityingly. 'They do it to deter thieves,' he said.

'Well, in that case,' I said, 'they want to choose colours with two
per cent or more of black in them and spray them wet on wet to make
some dull, unattractive mixes, not those bright pastels in thin coats
with drying time in between. Those bikes as they are painted now look
like works of art, and the three together all in the same semi-random
colour scheme reinforce the argument.'

Once I understood it was supposed an anti-theft device, it was also
easy to see how counterproductively it had been done -- if it was done
seriously, which of course it was not. It was instead an urban-chic
statement.

*****

You'd do well to paint the bike in primer, enough layers to start
looking incompetent, then a layer of maybe some red or dark green,
then a layer of black, all this without rubbing any coat, and then
when it is dry rub it hard enough with emery cloth to rub through the
thin top but not the primer so that the bike is mainly primer, which
will soon look dirty in any city, plus some irregular splotches of
your other colours. The advantage is that, when you're want to return
the bike to decent society, you can just rub down the primer a couple
of layers. This isn't a wash-off job but at least your prep will have
been protected all along under the dirt.

Andre Jute
The rest is magic hidden in the hub.
For rare hub gear bikes, visit Jute on Bicycles at
http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/fiultra/BICYCLE%20%26%
20CYCLING.html

I believe you are on to something here, or even just primer will like
pretty crappy. The layers of dried vomit might be a little much that
someone else suggested but who knows?

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Ronko wrote:

I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut
down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like
that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Shelf paper looks pretty cruddy when used as frame wrap. Electrical
tape works too, but in my opinion it's almost to the point of becoming
code for "undercover decent bike".

Don't forget to use an unspeakable saddle panty-- nobody wants to be
seen with that:
http://www.aerotechdesigns.com/seatc...lycraseatcover

Chalo
Yes, good! The paisley or green look particularly bad.

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Chalo Colina wrote:
Ronko wrote:
I'm setting up a commuter bike and I want it to look ugly to cut down
on theft potential. Basic frame is a good one for people who know:
'73 Raleigh Professional. So what type of paint can be splashed on
that will later wash off? A latex exterior paint or something like that?
What else can be done to really make the bike look like a piece of
sh*t? Yes, I will lock it well but I have to leave it for a few hours at
night in a less than desireable area.

Shelf paper looks pretty cruddy when used as frame wrap. Electrical
tape works too, but in my opinion it's almost to the point of becoming
code for "undercover decent bike".

Don't forget to use an unspeakable saddle panty-- nobody wants to be
seen with that:
http://www.aerotechdesigns.com/seatc...lycraseatcover

No covers with fake "skid marks"?

--
Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007

Hey, wait, those marks aren't fake.....