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Anyone care to vote on a paint scheme for my bike?

  • Thread starter Thread starter wirelessguy
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Anyone care to vote on a paint scheme for my bike?

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Just going to give this thread one more BUMP. Poll closes tomorrow afternoon, so check out the first post and get your votes in. :-)

On the good news front, I got in my POR15 today and the tank and fender are totally stripped down. I'm going ot give some thought to paint removal on the plastic pieces (since paint stripper seems to melt those parts). I'm considering tryign the Easy Off thing and seeing if it's any better than hours of manual sanding. I also have the soda blaster but I'm not convinced it will do all that much (worth a try I suppose).
 
remember its your bike were not going to be riding it, so it comes down to what you want
 
cyclefvr2 said:
remember its your bike were not going to be riding it, so it comes down to what you want
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I'll partially agree. :-)

The real premise in starting this thread is to understand what kind of paint jobs would add the most value to my bike. What makes others stop in their tracks and say, "What the heck is that thing? I don't think it's new but it's shiny!"

I'm feeling like the paint job needs to be a show stopper, in a classic way. I like both the Cafe and classic black styles but I also realize that it's not easy getting the right shade of black (so as not to look like any car out there on the road.)

I do have some concepts that I'm mulling over and have some images of what I'd consider a cafe hybrid (or the best I've seen given the lines of my tank). I'll try to post them up here soon, for more comments. I just hope my painting abilities are as good as my photoshop skills. :-)
 
tkent02 said:
Well done stripes always trump one solid color, the trick is the well done part. I have been looking at hundreds of pictures of cafe racers, choppers, and other custom painted bikes to come up with ideas for mine. I have saved a heck of a lot of pictures in a paint job file. It's kind of fun.
Edit, a few of my favorites. Not that I would copy any one of these, just use some of the basic ideas:

Great tank...
SRKZ004.jpg

I love everything but the white and the red frame...
guz1.jpg

I like the stripes, but it needs to be black red and silver or something...
2009_10.jpg

Again, sweet except for the white...
02-2007.jpg

This one just rocks...
001.jpg
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The Kawi is beautiful. So simple, yet elegant.

As for the Norton, it's a work of art.
 
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