You should be proud, that bike looks awesome, love the colour

Aussie Johnno

 

Thank you all.

Great suggestion on painting the bike seat. I didn't know you could paint vinyl, but there is a flat black paint and I agree, that would make the bike look better.

As for stickers, they are coming. I'll be adding one more:
This will go on the back and top of the tank so my magnetic tank bag doesn't scratch it.

As for the bike, it is an 87 CBR1000F Hurricane with 77000+ km. Still runs great.

By the way, this forum has been a tremendous source of information. Diagnosing problems and fixes have been a lot easier because of all the post.

Cheers,
Kenan
London, Ont

 

You CAN paint vynil, but I'd just have it recovered - look much nicer.
Thanks for your kind words- much appreciated.

 

I did this one my self in two hours

 

Rookie:Its stunning, looks incredible! great job. How much time did it take you? Did you take all the plastics off and spray them?

Shadow: Looks awesome too! You wanna come do mine? haha

 

Hey Rookie , what a stunner mate!!! Anyone would be proud to take her out for a ride

You know what? I'm not entirely sure she even needs stickers on her , just love that flat black and bronze/gold look!

 

thanks guys.

As for how long it took: the tank, front fender, lower cowl, and the two small plastic pieces, that was very quick. It took a total of about 2 hours. The paint covers very well and flash time is about 10 minutes, so by the time I'd finish last piece, it was time to paint the first one again. Four coats total.

The bike was completely stripped down.

To plastic weld the cracks and there were lots of them, took a fair bit of time. Then came manual sanding and that was time consuming.

The entire bike was primed as every piece needed some plastic welding.

The fairings I tried painting in my shed (with a HVLP gun) and even though it looked ok, it certainly wasn't the best. My wife teaches at a high school, so auto shop tech teacher offered me the use of their paint booth. WOW! What a difference. Perfect light, pressurized booth, basically, state of the art booth, and I got to use it for free.

I put on two coats of this mustardy yellow base, and then finished it off with 4+ coats of paint because the paint was almost transparent. To paint all this took almost 4 hours as the paint took a long time to flash.

Start to finish, including rims, was about two weeks. I used a charcoal primmer and to be honest with you, looked awesome on the bike.

 

All credit to you, I have done a lot of spraying and with doing a bike like yours the real art is choosing the right colours, and you have, it looks great. Well done.