Hi everyone! I recently purchased my first home and thank god it has a nice garage. I love working on bikes and some of my buddies want me to polish there bikes up like mine (pics below). They said they would pay me for my time, which is cool I didnt ask, but it got me thinking. This could be a way for me to be around bikes more and maybe make some extra cash!

So the question is:
If you WANTED your bike polished, and DIDN'T want to do it yourself, how much would you pay to get your frame & subframe done? How about your wheels? I have no idea how much to charge or to charge by the hour because it is VERY time consuming.

All your opinions would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks a lot guys/girls!!

 

My friend used to do this for 100 bucks per bike, you dont get rich off it at all but if you enjoy the work thats why your doing it and it's a little extra cash too.

 

I paid $400 to have my frame polished (929 frame only). I just dropped my bike off with all the fairings off and picked it up a week later.

 

not my thing so I dunno lol, I do know it takes alot of time to do it from my VW days tho.

 

$100 seems pretty low to me, especially once you factor in all the required materials. Then again, I'm no expert. $100 would def drum up some business I bet..

 

he only did it for friends I think he did maybe 5 bikes, but yeah it takes a long time