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Help dress Jennifer's fairing.

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Orange colour in place of the black tape stripe on the cooley's lower stripe. Yellow following the cooley's upper black tape stripe. Need an accent colour where the blue is on the cooley but I don't have the gimp loaded on my workstation.
 
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Doc, I played around with changing he blue to the red and orange, was a bit over powering, I think the black needs to dominate, but just needs to be broken, I like the idea of replacing the two black stripes with the two colours, maybe instead of keeping them as 1/8th stripes, open them up to an inch to get more colour in, then do both the blue and white in black.
I will play with it, I like the idea.
 
Stan, just change the black stripe tape to the two stripe colours. The upper (8mm?) stripe being the yellow and the lower being the orange. If there is a blue stripe on the bodywork as well, spray the sky blue section on the 'cooley" fairing the same colour and keep the lower fairings colour black.

Comprende?
 
wedoo2 said:
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This, but with a lot less orange on the front of the bike. Maybe just a thin stripe on the fender and another on the fairing.

OK how about a 3/4" orange stripe down the center of the fender and another along the white stripe on the fairing, with more black on the other side. Let all of the fairing be black except for the stripe, inside the headlight hole and above it all black too.
 
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Starting to look a might Harleyish with a fairing painted with all that orange I think. maybe best in black with thin accent stripes where the white one is on that rendering.
 
Switch the orange with black, and put the stripes where the white is?
 
I think if that were my bike, I would have the fairing stripes follow the natural body lines of the fairing like on an S model. Those are prominent lines. I would do three stripes. The 2 shades of orange about 1/2" wide each, with a thin gold 1/8" pin stripe to frame them in. You go too crazy and it takes away from the beauty of the simplicity of it.
 
Rob S, I think Flyboy is looking to get some ideas on how make his 'Cooley' fairing to best match the stripes that that were on the bike when new.

Here's his blank canvas.

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nvr2old said:
I think if that were my bike, I would have the fairing stripes follow the natural body lines of the fairing like on an S model. Those are prominent lines. I would do three stripes. The 2 shades of orange about 1/2" wide each, with a thin gold 1/8" pin stripe to frame them in. You go too crazy and it takes away from the beauty of the simplicity of it.
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The Master has spoketh :idea:
 
The fairing on my bike was on it in the show room when I purchased the bike in '81.

Probably fitted by Suzuki Australia - the Australian importers.

 
Jeeeez, thanks for all the input and ideas guys, now I have even more to ponder, what to do, what to do???
larry, I agree that following the original lines of the fairing will accent it nicely, but it will be out of style with the rest of the striping which for all intents and purposes is straight, I think the "S" can get away wih it because it has curves elsewhere as well, like the color split and black following around the fuel cap on top of the tank, which the G does not have.
Johno, trust the Ausies to put an S fairing on a G from the dealer...hahaha.
I can't see too well, have they duplicated the two colours top and bottom, in other words orange above red, then a gap then red above orange?
Or is it the orange and red then just a wide band of orange at the bottom?
I do like it a lot ad it does flow with the rest of the bikes styling.
 
Johno said:
The fairing on my bike was on it in the show room when I purchased the bike in '81.

Probably fitted by Suzuki Australia - the Australian importers.

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This looks like a winner pattern. On black, it would be amazing and yet not HD mistaken.
 
Flyboy said:
Johno, trust the Ausies to put an S fairing on a G from the dealer...hahaha.
I can't see too well, have they duplicated the two colours top and bottom, in other words orange above red, then a gap then red above orange?
Or is it the orange and red then just a wide band of orange at the bottom?
I do like it a lot ad it does flow with the rest of the bikes styling.
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Here are some closer shots.





I have a spare tank and tail and have been thinking about a black bike with blue and gold striping as well.
 
Thanks Johno
The way the light catches the fairing in the first pic, it looked like another orange band lower down just beolw the cut out for the indicator, now I see there is only one band of colour.
 
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