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[utgunslinger13]

  I'm just curious as to what your plans are for that part cause you obviously have a handle on everything else and the fab work has been amazing!  So I'm just waiting to be impressed here! 

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looking good so far dude

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[Fry]

I made some good progress tonight on redoing the side panels, no pics as of yet. I do know that with the Frame and Sub Frame being some shade of Dull Aluminum, I will paint these side panels Flat Black, same as the Tank.

Even though I got the Side Panel fitments pretty tight at the moment, I plan on taking some appropriate sized flexible black rubber house, cutting it down the middle leaving one flat side and one half round side of tubing. Once everything is painted I will super glue the tubing flat side down against the Side Panel and around the perimeter of the side panels (Which are inset half the distance of the width of the frame tubing) and the frame rails where they meet. This way it will hide any gaps or un-evenness in the Side Panel to Frame seam, plus I think it will add a finished touch.

Onto my latest Idea. Many of my friends and GF have commented that with the new Dual Headlights the bike kind-a looks like "Wall-E" the Robot in the new Pixar movie, the similarities are striking.





So with that in mind I have a somewhat Korny Idea and I want to know what the masses think. The bikes paint theme overall will be that of mostly Flat shades, with the Tanks being Flat Black, perhaps the same as the engine, but definitely some variant of flat black. The chassis will be Dull/Flat aluminum, sticking with the Flat theme. So I'm thinking, I'd like a "Little Bit" of color to the bike, but what?

I haven't really fully accepted Wall-E as a flattering term for what I'm trying to make but it is funny and oddly enough the bike is a gs 500 "E", Wall-E also has a prominent "E" in his name as well, Hum??? So imagine the picture below with a flat black tank rather than the purple, what do you all think?



I will find a Sticker or have one made of that Red Circle with White E thats about double the size of my pathetic Microsoft Paint illustration. I will place, rotate the position of the sticker so that the "Legs" of the E are slanted upwards kinda on the same plane as the indentation of the tank/knee pocket area.

By doing this I will be officially naming her, secondly it will bring a splash of color and a bit of mystery. Some in the know will say Oh thats a "E" model, other sly individuals may or may not know the model letter but will make the coralation between the headlights and Pixar's Wall-E, some will get the double meaning, most will probably call it ghey?

Ah who knows.

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*I* think it would look good, the flat black tank would flow into the seat visually, and the red E would pop and be fun, I don't think it would be ghey. If you were doing like flat yellow and a pink circle, then maybe. 

I gotta know where to get that stainless honeycomb look sheet, I need to do inserts for my chin spoiler and also want to do side panels as well. I can't find diddley that I like..  a clue please??   

[Fry]

My brother use to work at a industrial speaker company and took something like 20 sheets of it for me, it's pretty thick and unruly at about a 1/8th thick. When trimming and cutting it to shape, your often left with rows with half holes and jagged lines, hence the reason for covering the Side Panel to Frame Seam with some sort of tubing or weather stripping.

As to where to buy something like it, I have no idea?, maybe here http://www.onlinemetals.com/index.cfm