All Done (pics)

[The Buddha]

Oh OK ... looked like D&D ... but ...
The wrap ... ha ha I did somehting equally stupid ... painted the exhaust silver ... Why ... either that or white ... only colors of high heat they had at that auto parts store ... Looks like shetie ... Runs and crap in black get covered up and less visible easily ... this just has 12 shaded of silver pointing to the blemish in concentric pattern ... POS. My favorite has to be that ashy black I have seen ... covers blemishes so well ...
Now painting the frame ... I knew of one that was painted like 2-3 times He said he wrapped news paper on the motor and hand sanded and sprayed it with lacquer based paint with a spray gun ... Minimal overspray on some parts ... but he said the first time it took him a day to wrap and sand and spray, the second time he did it in 3 hours ... hence the sloppier job. I was really a stand out finish and he said it was over a year old at the point I saw it.
Cool.
Srinath.

[bucks1605]

So really, there is no point to this post other than to be a whore and tell you how awesome I think my bike is.... I bought it last winter as a non-running, wrecked, fixxer upper, and I think I finally have it where I want it just in time for summer. Anyway, I guess a big thanks is in order for everyone on this board, no telling how much $$ I've saved being able to get parts cheap and do work myself.    I just got her painted by a local friend, color isn't what I was expecting, but I think it turned out pretty well. Anyway, that's pretty much it. Enjoy my wasted bandwidth.

Here's where it all started...(I had the tank and sides, but they were off for some reason.. think ugly, faded, scratched, purple paint...):



And here it is today:

















trey

Pics don't work, please fix. I'd like to see how this looks.

[Alphamazing]

Pics don't work, please fix. I'd like to see how this looks.

Maybe because you just revived a 2 year old thread...

[bucks1605]

Pics don't work, please fix. I'd like to see how this looks.

Maybe because you just revived a 2 year old thread...

Probably, but we can let it die again because I found another thread that had pictures in it.

[annguyen1981]

So WTF is wrong with THIS thread???  Just because the pics don't work, doesn't mean you can abandon something YOU dragged out of the grave...

[Alphamazing]

So WTF is wrong with THIS thread???  Just because the pics don't work, doesn't mean you can abandon something YOU dragged out of the grave...

Yeah, you made this zombie thread come back, now YOU have to deal with it!

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

BRAAAAAAAAAAIIINSSSSSSS.... BRAAAAAAAINSSSSSSSSS

[treybrad]

Well, I'm not going to figure out exactly which pics I posted originally. But I know it's annoying when and old thread gets brought up and the links are dead.. I'm actually surprised my email notification works 2 years later...

Anyway, when I first bought it:



There were lots of posts of "in progress" pics, but here was the final result more or less...









And about a week after I sold it to some guy, I got pictures of it like this: (I have no idea how he snapped Srinath's bars like that..)





And here's my new toy:





You can see my roomate's GS project in the background of this one...



enjoy this 2 year old thread.

trey

[GeeP]

Woah!  It's alive!  IT'S ALIVE!  IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!

[treybrad]

Oh yeah, I recently saw it for sale on Craigslist in Austin for dirt cheap. I think he was asking $900. Looked like the forks and pretty much everything but the tank had been replaced.

Did someone on here buy it? Still had the exhaust wrap and everything...

trey

[NiceGuysFinishLast]

It looked great.. painful to see it after d00d wrecked it.. the SV looks nice too. The picture near the beach made me laugh, cuz I JUST saw a picture on SVRider of a blue SV with tailbags laying on its side in the sand.. I had to do a double take and make sure it wasn't yours.

[weaselnoze]

ewwwwwwww remember ppl used to put those stupid F1s on? gross haha