I'm about an hour to hour and a half. That was the track I was talking about. Lol.

And yeah, we got a lot of snow this year compared to last year. However I did ride up until Thanksgiving which is pretty unusual.

 

This weekend afforded me a couple of very nice days (74º Sat./65º Sun.) with low humidity, so I cleaned the tank with grease/wax remover, hit it with tack-cloth, and shot the gloss black - it went on very nicely.
I shot 3 or 4 coats total, then the next day, lightly wet sanded with 1000 grit, and applied the Honda wing decals.



I haven't finished it up with the clear, so bear in mind that this is NOT the finished product!

On the street bike, I installed the larger main jets, and turned out the pilot screws an additional 1/2 turn... spot-ON! This eliminated the popping on decel, and it runs like a scalded dog now, hitting redline very quickly, and giving me my favorite problem while riding a sportbike: keeping the front wheel on the ground!

 

I'm a sucker for matte black.Lol.And I can't wait to be comfortable to have that problem. Lol.

 

Looks like I'm not the only one making some progress. Can't wait to see how the tank turns out.

 

Brainerd track is alot of fun I'm about an hr and a half from there I'm just a bit north of minneapolis near maple grove.

 

Ha. Good to hear of another fellow Minnesotan! Are you riding yet? Ha. Stupid weather.

 

I had a mishap with the application of the clear, I'm not sure if I got a "dud" can, which happens sometimes, or if I miscalculated on the time waiting for the base coat to be ready for the clear, but in just a couple of spots, the clear kind of bubbled in sort of a "spidery" pattern - since these defects are very symmetrical, I suspect it was in places where the black coats were a little thicker, and were not yet ready for the clear.
It just makes sense, but it infuriates me that I may have caused my own problem!

Tonight after work, it will have been plenty of time for the clear that's on, to have fully dried, so I'm going to attempt to carefully wet sand the affected areas - hopefully I can get those areas fixed, otherwise, I'll have to strip it all, get new wind decals and start over.

Other than those spots, it looks really sweet!

 

Im assuming by the way youve spoken about this you've sprayed with rattle cans? if so how many cans have you used? just out of interest more than anything.

 

Honestly, it's hard for me to say, since the first stinkin' can of gloss black, turned out to be a dud, after I'd begun to spray - it was splattering a little, after just a short bit of use, even after shaking like mad for a couple of minutes before, and periodically while using, and yes, I do spray away from the work, just after shaking each time, to get the nozzle "purged".
Thankfully, it was on the underside of the tank! After that, I started getting paranoid of each can, as usually when I encounter this, it happens with more than one can in the group that I've bought, so I began to discard them much sooner than I usually would.

Basically, if you think you need 3 cans to finish the coats you want on a particular area of work, then buy 6! The last thing you want, is to end up running out during an application of a coat.

 

Ya a few days once last week. We are supposed to have rain Saturday night for a week or so off and on. Crazy "spring" weather this year ready for summer. We should ride sometime pm me