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    Brompton Folding Bicycle

    Any suggestions to fix this nicely?

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    1. relativelyunique1 on

      I’d live with it, unfortunately. If you paint it, it’ll look awful.

      I would get a hard cutting compound polish on it and see how much you can ‘dull’ the appearance of the scratches. Something like Scratch X, followed by Super Resin Polish.

    2. swedish_max on

      If you are careful with some touchup paint then it’ll look better. Go lightly, small brush.

    3. bpov2012 on

      Get some touch up paint, either the pre-matched ones from Condor Cycles or from a custom mixer using the RAL code for your paint color (unsure if Brompton still publishes this). It will never be a perfect match to the original powder coat, but if properly done it should look fine from 3+ feet away. Depending on how much you care, you may want to sand/apply/sand like with car touch up paint, but I’ve never done this so I couldn’t advise if it leads to a better final result.

      I’m sure there will be a few other comments here about how “it’s just a bike,” but I get wanting to show pride in having a clean-looking bike and keep it corrosion-free for as long as possible.

      Good luck!

    4. coffeesipper5000 on

      I feel your pain, same thing happened to me. Should have upgraded those crappy default trolley wheels sooner, I regret that mistake so much.

    5. Adventurous_Disk_828 on

      If you’d like to prevent similar things from happening in the future, I think some helicopter tape/bike frame protection tape could help 🙂

    6. hgc81 on

      You could wrap it with a think vinyl 200gm. It would need to be a different colour. You would need 1/2m and heat gun or any car wrapping could do it in 10 mins for you.

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