2. Booking into the queue
Customize your own Bicycle Frame
We fully custom-paint your own bicycle frame in the highest quality possible. On our website you can find a wide range of bicycle frame designs customizable in 3D. Choose your favorite, order it online and get in touch with us via mail. We will align on the shippment of your own bicycle frame to our facilities in Frankfurt, Germany. You can be sure we will realize a unique piece for you.
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Frame Paintwork Grunge
Stand out from the crowd with you custom Grunge Frame. Simply choose your favorites from our multiple color options and shine with your new frame on the track.
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We custom-paint your own bicycle frame no matter if it’s a race, MTB or any type of frame. Our team of specialized custom painters will make sure we’ll apply your dream design to your own bicycle frame and paint it in the highest quality possible. Custom painting a bicycle frame requires unique skills and the strive for perfection which you can hardly find anywhere else. Through years of partnerships with bicycle manufactures we are able to deliver a best-in-class experience. Painting a bicycle frame is our passion and we would love to bring to life your very own piece of art. A stylish custom-painted bicycle frame will let you stand-out on the streets of this planet.
First contact
People often reach out to us with an idea, but don’t really know how to get started, how much their idea might cost, or how the process works. The best way to start is by sending us an e-mail. We often have 60 or more projects on the go at any given time so e-mail is our favourite way of discussing paint work – it makes it really easy to keep track of the details, ideas and images of each customer throughout the life of the project.
Whenever we begin a conversation, we always start by asking customers for photos of their current bicycle and a general idea of what they want done.
Why do we want images of your current bike? We gather a lot of information from photos, including details our customers may not realize affect the cost of the job. For example, some carbon bikes have a lot of paint transitions and graphics which may increase the prep time. Pictures help us clock other details that may affect the scope of work too — like areas with heavy rust, chrome to be masked, or cable guides that could affect the graphic placement.
For local drop offs, we want to know whether the frame is coming to us disassembled, or if we are providing mechanical services to disassemble before paint and to rebuild after we’re finished.
All of these details affect the process and cost of the project.
Using the customer’s photos and initial design ideas, we create an estimate based on our understanding of the project’s parameters and details. This is a great starting point to see if we’re within a comfortable budget range. Details can add up quickly! From here we can either move forward or look for ways to meet the customers budgetary concerns. If the cost is more than expected, we can identify how best to simplify the design to both meet the budget and capture the essence of these initial design ideas.
We believe that a good designer’s job is to be creative, and that includes working within a budget!
That being said, some things take the time that they take and there’s no way around that. We will be honest with customers on what is possible. We don’t start to put together any official designs at this point.
At the end of this conversation, we both have a sense of the general design, the work to be done, and a comfortable price range.
Booking into the Queue
The next step is to book a spot in our paint queue.
Our lead time for full paint jobs is 10-12 weeks on average, but our peak painting season (winter, when folks stop riding outdoors) can be upwards of 15-18 weeks. The queue booking gets customers a spot in line and acts as a deposit that goes towards the final price. The booking will also include a questionnaire form where you can provide us with some helpful information — like the rear-end spacing on a steel-frame.
We will provide customers who have booked into the queue with a timeline and key dates for their project (like when we will start the design conversation, when we need the frame by, and the expected paint start date) within a week of their booking.
Design Time
It’s about six weeks out from the paint date. The time has come to start the design conversation.
We like to have three things prior to starting the design:
1. Inspiration!
Bike references are fine, but all kinds of visual inspiration are great! We encourage customers to send us pictures of other things they like – anything from your favourite sunset, wrist watch, painting… you get the point. We can take inspiration from pretty much anything and love seeing all of the different references we get. Sometimes we hear ”just do whatever you think will be awesome”. We can do that too, but we still want some colour references to use as a guide – because hot pink super sparkle is very different from an ocean blue fade.
2. What parts are getting painted.
Most jobs consist of the frame and fork, but we frequently paint the stem, handlebars, and seat post to match. In fact, we sometimes recommend these additions to visually tie the colours and parts together. Then there are a lot of other parts we can paint — frame pumps, carbon cranks, shift levers, head set spacers — we can and have done it all. Whatever you want painted, we need to know so we can incorporate it into your design. We often create and hand-cut custom head badges to accompany our paint — but that’s a whole other blog post.
3. Budget.
We like to double-check the budget range with you before we dive into creating the design. We can paint anything, it just comes down to the time it will take. There’s no sense in us designing a paint scheme that won’t fit your cost expectations. For customers who are unsure of their budget going in, we can take an initial design and offer three versions representing a range of budgets for you to choose from.
Once we have these three key elements — inspiration, the parts to be painted, and your desired budget — Suzanne puts it all together with a dash of design magic to create an initial design mock up.
A gallery starting with design inspiration from the customer and finishing with a final design iteration.
Narrowing down the initial design is a conversation.
The initial design is a way for Suzanne and the customer to get on the same page. You tell us what you like and don’t like about what you see, and based on your feedback, we create two to three alterations. Together, we start to fine tune the small details, aiming to have the majority of the design details sorted in a final design about two weeks out from the paint date. You can check out our previous blog post “Jonathan’s Custom OPEN UPPER” to get a sense of how that conversation can go. Again, we like e-mail for this back and forth so that we can reference what you said you liked (or didn’t like) as the design evolves.
(A note on colour: Because they’re very difficult to communicate through an e-mailed drawing, we don’t render metallics, pearls, or candies in our design mock-ups. Instead, we use images of paint on cars or bikes to closely approximate the shade, hue and feel of a colour. But more on colour later.)
