How To/ Where To for painting bikes

[PolishPete]

Hey guys...so I have that SV, an it's all black.  I bought a compressor and paint gun but now I need to learn to paint.  I want to add some hot orange or hot green/yellow (Rossi Type Colors) to the black, and I have some old spare fairings from an F2 I can practice on...any tutorials online where I can learn to paint, or see the steps??  Where can I buy the paint??  Thanks in advance for any help!!

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

Wellfirst you need to make sure you have an area that you can spray paint thats over 60deg, ventilated and that you can paint in. Some cities have paint booths that you can rent out, just bring your gun, paint and items to paint.

You need to find out what kind of paint the black is. If its spray paint, spraying auto paint (urethane, laquer oe epoxy Some paints will lift and ruin the job if they arent compatible or th eoriginal paint isnt sealed correctly. Prep work is the biggest thing.

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Use tape graphics if you must.  My suggestion would be to leave the bike as-is.  Black is the best color for a racebike, because it is easily touched up with a spray can after a crash.  Sooner or soo...um, later, that pretty SV will be bouncing down the track like a very expensive and fragile basketball.  Beautiful paint is just a heartbreak waiting to happen.  
There are some really neat graphics packages available to go over that pretty black paint job you have now.  You almost surely won't be happy with the results of your first-ever paintjob, so save it for when you need to repaint your first-ever major reconstruction job.  That's my 2 cents, from a been there, done that point of view.
Try this link.  http://www.tapeworks.com/

[Super Dave]

Chris has that right.

I use http://blastgraphicsllc.com/ to do my vinyl work.  I paint one base color, and then do everything from number plates to a second color in vinyl.  

Black hides brake dust.

If you're gonna paint, preparation before spraying is going to give you the best results.  And remember that you're just gonna toss it down the road.  Getting too elaborate can be expensive.

I'd think that you could google for a step by step tutorial on prep and painting.  You can make a spray can job look good too.