O an this might be ghetto but is there anyway to just paint em myself at the house?

 

Baxsom, your bike looks great withthe black swing arm. I have the silver 06 and I painted all of my fairing bolts black.... it just makes it look a little different.

 

many people have just painted them
you have to take pretty much every thing you can off the tail end and degrease it very well
then paint it with very thin coats of quality tough paint.
look at 1000rr.net there are quite a few guys there that did it and had good results

to powdercoat it has to be taken apart though and the bearings have to come out.

getting them out is easy, get a socket the same size as the bearing and beat it out from the other side

getting them back in takes a press which i dont have otherwise i would have done that myself too

i did a how to on swingarm removal and reinstall on 1000rr.net's maintenance section

 

im talkin bout the forks. Ive already done the swing arm.

 

Both your bikes look great. What levers are you both using. bboi its hard to tell from the pic, but they look factory w/
powder coating.

 

they are just factory with powder coat.

 

is it fairly easy to remove the swingarm, considering I do alot of work on my car and truck but dont really know anything about this bike. Yalls bikes look amazing and i want my swingarm powdercoated as well, I'm going for all black and white

 

it really isnt hard. i posted a write up on how to do it on 1000rr.net. the site is down right now but under the maintenance section i put a pretty detailed write up on it.

you need a few special tools but Brad from www.superbikesupply.com rents the tools you need out dirt cheap

 

Looks good. thinking of doing that to mine now. thanx for the idea.

 

Doesn't powder coating them add weight????

My 95 FZR1000 had its upside down front fork legs annodized to a red color by previous owner. They looked good.