Wow! Excellent work. Looking forward to seeing the finished bike!

 

Nice work..... looks real good. You should polish the forks like i did and stick the DUAL CBS sticker on them. They look great.

 

Looking great.

 

Ok, one last post for a little while. I'm heading out to denver this weeked for a week and won't get to work on her till I get back. Here are some of the pics of the silver. Very simple two tone paint job as you can see.

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As always there are more pics for your enjoyment here

MDFF

 

This is looking real good, Silver and black are a great comination and yours is working well. Post some more pics soon. What do you think of the job. Getting some satisfaction out of doing it in house.



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Thanks, it really like the colors, even though they are Raiders colors, but oh well. I still have a lot of color sanding to do before I clear it but I am really happy with the way it turned out so far. Its not as easy as it looks and having the right equipments helps. This would have been impossible without an HVLP paint gun. I know I could have done it with spray paint but I firmly beleive it wouldn't have looked anywhere near as good as it does. Its really nice to be able to do it yourself, but you also have to put things in prespective and tell yourself that its not going to be as good as if you pay someone to do it. But the satisfaction of knowing you did it is amazing. I know it won't win any shows but its nice to be able to tell someone you did it yourself. I can't wait to put the decals on the tank and shoot the clear, then all kinds of glamor shots, then I get to ride her (finally!). The hardest part has been not riding, but it really makes me glad that I know everything that was wrong is now fixed.

MDFF

 

Glad that things are coming together. The pics so far look really good and like you said, when you put her on the road everything would have been sorted out. I'm looking forward to the final pics.



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FINALLY I got all of the color sanding done and the clear coat down. Ran into a few problems with the temp in the garage (booth ). Here are some prelim pics of the parts with clear on them. Everything needs to harden for the next week and then I will be able to reassemble.











I'm really happy with the way it came out. It could have gone a bit better, but thats the breaks of doing it at home.

MDFF

 

Looking great..... I can't wait to see how the finished bike will look.... like the colour scheme.

you shoul have taken of the fuel tank cover/cap..... and mask the inner hole that way it will give you a better finish

cheers

BTW trailing 5 places in the February ROTM... damn... gonna be another RR that wins.... not fair