What I did was I went out and bought 4 cans of rustoleum metalic blue painted it using 3 1/2 cans, that way if it chips u have something to cover up the mark but before u paint it sand it then wet sand sand it after the paint is dry go back over it with rustoleum clear enamel going over the places where contact is the most extra times like around ur feet the whole bottom of the frame and where ur knees are mines held up for over a month now