Intro To Vintage Bicycles : Vintage Bicycles: Restore or Recondition

The best way to ruin the value of a vintage bicycle is to over restore it. Learn about assessing a bike for restoration or reconditioning it from a bicycle expert in this free video.

Expert: Vin Vullo
Contact: www.oldroads.com
Bio: Vin Vullo has been buying and selling vintage bicycles since the 1960s.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• vintage
• bikes
• bicycles
• vintage bikes
• vintage bicycles
• Schwinn
• restore
• recondition
• head badges
• chain guards
• yard sales
• flea markets

[Welshkiteflyer]

lets see a before and after with this bike

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

He said not to repaint a bike “unless it’s something this” and then he said “this bike, even in this condition, should not be repainted”…? Good videos though man.

Don’t paint old bikes!

[missionrepublic]

What if the previous owner did a poor paint job already?

Should I attempt for a better paint job or leave it?

[antmandan0]

I'd agree that if the bike has original pin striping or hand painted decals that repainting could be a very bad idea. However if the frame is plain or in poor condition (flakey paint, rust, incomplete detailing, etc.) why not repaint? I'm not talking a cheap automobile paint booth job but a proper frame builder. That said depending on your intentions I think you should be careful to use paints that are not in keeping with colours available at the time. Over-restoration no, sympathetic resto yes!