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Old 04-13-21, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by C9H13N
My 2 cents - don’t do anything permanent unless you’re going to spring for a full repaint/powder job. IMO most paint touch ups look like crap and are worse than leaving as is.

Strip it down to the bare frame and fork, wash, lightly polish (previously mentioned Scratch-X works well). Give it a couple coats of automotive paste wax. Reapply wax occasionally to maintain. It’s lasted this long with less care than that.
Agreed. In any case, the existing paint looks good--definitely at the light end of the patina scale, by my standards, at least.
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