A small amount of regular care and attention is the key to maintaining the long lasting beauty of your painted frame. We recommend the following care:

• Avoid keeping your painted frame in full sunlight—over time concentrated UV rays may fade the color.
• Immediately wipe off any corrosive or acidic substances such as sap, juice, sunscreen, tar, chemicals, or animal droppings.
• Never use acetone on painted surfaces.
• Wipe off dirt with a soft cloth using soap and water or any paint-safe cleaning product.
• If your chainstays are painted, consider a chainstay protector to avoid chain-slap chipping.

Touch-up Paint

This may sound strange, but the best touch-up paint is nail polish that you visually color match. It is ideal because nail lacquer is significantly more durable than the industrial colors that Seven works with. Our paint colors are designed as a multistage process. Unfortunately, out of a bottle, that multistep process can't occur, so the paint doesn't work well at all; the color doesn't have proper adhesion, doesn't have any surface durability, and doesn't have the appropriate glossy sheen.

Our industrial protective clear coat that accomplishes some of these requirements includes an activator with no shelf life, so we can't bottle it as viable touch-up paint. Nail lacquer is an excellent all-in-one solution that addresses these requirements.

Why don't we paint bikes with nail polish, you ask? Because in large quantities, it's not good for the environment, and it's not sprayable.