Can you really paint an old bicycle ??

ThreeLeggedDog

wrote in part:

Provide the paint
and you'd be surprised how little an auto paint shop will charge you
for the project (Don't use auto paint, it chips).

Let them supply the paint and you do as much prep work as possible. "Auto
paint" covers a wide range of products, some chip resistant and some not. Imron
(tm) for example is often used to paint the frames and floor pans of custom
cars- street rods, muscle cars, etc- that are actually driven on the street and
it is remarkably chip resistant even in that extreme application.

Regards,
Bob Hunt