My 1150 clean up/rebuild

[jwhelan65]

Nice work!

[trevor]

Cleaning up some little things tonight...Back-to-Black works great!

[trevor]

Little bit of sanding and painting tonight...this is the inside of the fairing, it was really rough. It's better now but not perfect. My goal here is to get it back together so it is decent to see if I have a good runner or not then this winter, if I'm happy with the bike I will have it professionally painted.
Here is some before and after..

[7981GS]

Making some quick progress on it for sure.

Eric

[trevor]

Question guys, I think I will get my seat recovered. Right now each seat is a different shade of blue. I'm not sure what the stock colour was for my bike. I inquired at an upholstery shop and they thought I should match the royal/purpely blue in the tank. I was thinking about just going black as I don't want it looking hokey and also wondering if the black would look better because of the black rubber strips on the tank. Here are some pics of what I have. Thanks for any advice or pics you guys can share.

[big block]

I believe the seat colour should match the vinyl straps on the tank.

Sheldon

[7981GS]

I think that basic black would look the best also and match the paint scheme too.
They would compliment each other rather than clash like a blue seat would. Yuk!

Eric

[GateKeeper]

I was going to say go bold and get it done in some Carbon FX.......

but since it's mostly stock, I am rethinking, probably not....

[Charlie G]

Just found your thread Trevor. It's making me want to get going again on my 1100g. Polishing things on a buffing wheel can be addicting! I love getting a cheap bike and making it run and shine. Cheers.

cg

[cableguy]

Little bit of sanding and painting tonight...this is the inside of the fairing, it was really rough. It's better now but not perfect. My goal here is to get it back together so it is decent to see if I have a good runner or not then this winter, if I'm happy with the bike I will have it professionally painted.
Here is some before and after..

What kind of paint did you use for this?

[GateKeeper]

going to guess but probably what he used on the fenders as well ???

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showpost.php?p=1675946&postcount=39

but maybe not....only guessing at this point

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[posplayr]

nice work, I would also go some form of black on the seat.

Your paint is nice enough , have you considered some touchup and a good coat of clear. It will make it look "almost new" and be much cheaper (1/3 the cost) than a full paint job.

[trevor]

Yep you guys are right gonna go with black for the seat. As for what paint I used on the plastic bits, I used dupi-colour bumper paint (can on the right). Here is a pic of a mirror I did last night. I'm also going to use it on the tail peice I bought from a guy in Alberta for 50 bucks! Ouch!




I also have used the Dupli-coluor trim paint with good results.

[OLDENUFF]

Painted my liner with Stippletone because I couldn't get smooth paint to look uniform. I think the PO used a lot of Armorall on it.

[trevor]

Painted my liner with Stippletone because I couldn't get smooth paint to look uniform. I think the PO used a lot of Armorall on it.

Hey that looks pretty good. Good idea. I'm having trouble getting mine to look uniform too. I just might do the same thing. Thanks