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Old 04-15-2007, 12:03 AM
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Just wanted to share some pictures of a mod I did last weekend.

I wanted to change the colors of my 061kRR from black/silver to black/red. I took off the seat cowl and the rear plastics and used a Dremel to grind off the rivets and then painted the mesh with some spray paint and then clear coated it. I used a rivet gun to reattach the mesh to the plastic and then decided to install some 3 light LED strips behind the rear plastic mesh.

It's nothing too exciting but it was my first mod to this bike and I had a lot of fun doing it.

Enjoy!

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Dang I think it looks great. I love custom mods like that, its the little things that set you apart.
 
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yep it looks pretty sweet. thanks for sharing
 
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Who sells that cowl? Thanks
 
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Old 04-15-2007, 05:32 PM
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hwells,

Not sure who sells it; it was the one non-stock part on the bike when I got it a few weeks ago. I've seen ones like it on eBay though.

If you do decide to get one and do what I did make sure when you take the rivets off you don't get the plastic too hot so that it melts around the rivets, I almost had a big problem!
 
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Looks pretty good, and I like the seat cowl. For future reference, the best way to remove rivets is by drilling them out.
 
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why drill out the rivets? wouldnt it be just as easy to tape off the area around the mesh the spray it?
 
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Old 04-16-2007, 11:21 PM
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I thought about doing that but it would have painted the black plastic behind the mesh as well and I did not want that.
 
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looks sweet, ill probably be doing something like that in the near future.
 
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thats awesome, job well done
 


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