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So...  A Stealer has one of the bikes I want, but it's friggen Purple...  I'm sure I could get it painted for under $1K, but it seems stupid to buy a $7000 bike (with a perfectly good, ugly paint job) just to paint it.

I can't do a good paint job myself...  So, I could either do a really shitty paint job or pay someone else to paint it....


What do you guys think?

2003 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Mean Streak (http://www.rentonmotorcycles.com/new_vehicle_detail.asp?sid=09858209X5K15K2007J2I59I28JPMQ2397R0&veh=5710&pov=423830)

option #2... too many bikes out there...

I think it's perfect exactly the way it is, but....

Quote from: Stephen072774 on May 15, 2007, 01:10:50 PM
option #2... too many bikes out there...

+1  :laugh:

Edit: I'd have voted for option 2 if you hadn't given me my own category.  :kiss3:

Yes ... just like I wont pay some Idiot to swap tires on a bike that has 50% tread left. heck  I'd buy a bike with completely wore tires if he'd give the cost of the tires off.
I'd rather have that much money off ... but of course you are talking about a stock paint job right ...
Clowns painting over a perfectly good paint job, swapping out perfectly good everything in the name of Bling bling ... sheesh ... Bling is great, but after the other crap is all used up. I wont powdercoat a wheel if its bearings are good. Every tire change I'll be checking it and do it only when the bearings are going. Cheap to a whole new level.
Cool.
Srinath.

Quote from: seshadri_srinath on May 15, 2007, 01:15:36 PM
Yes ... just like I wont pay some Idiot to swap tires on a bike that has 50% tread left. heck  I'd buy a bike with completely wore tires if he'd give the cost of the tires off.
I'd rather have that much money off ... but of course you are talking about a stock paint job right ...
Clowns painting over a perfectly good paint job, swapping out perfectly good everything in the name of Bling bling ... sheesh ... Bling is great, but after the other crap is all used up. I wont powdercoat a wheel if its bearings are good. Every tire change I'll be checking it and do it only when the bearings are going. Cheap to a whole new level. Cool. Srinath.

Translation: That's dumb, find a bike you like.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

My smarter half agrees with everyone so far...  I'm just impatient...   :icon_confused:

I want a cruiser with Shaft-Drive, EFI, Dual-Disc front, Inverted Forks, Tach, and I want it to be bigger than 800cc...  And a hydraulic clutch is just a bonus.

But...  A Fuel Injected Shafty over 800cc would be fine even without all the other goodies.

Get over it, and just be patient.  :cookoo: :flipoff: :laugh:

But...  I just sold my Exploder, so now I have only my leaky GS...   :cry:


I know, I know...  I'll be patient. :cry:

Quote from: RVertigo on May 15, 2007, 01:26:14 PM
now I have only my leaky GS...   :cry:

Sounds like a personal problem to me! ???  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I really don't think that the paint makes that bike ugly.  That bike is just plain ugly.  That is like. . .wtf?  If you buy that bike, nobody is going to care if it is black, purple or brown.   Ugly is ugly.   Too bad for you that bike is fugly. 

 :o  You damn Chicken-Head lover!

That's like the third best looking cruiser out there....  Except, not in purple and without that windscreen.

Go in and flash some cash.  Tell them you'll pay $7k out the door if they paint it a different color.  If not, $6200 out the door because it'll cost you that much to get a decent job done.  If they want to sell the bike they'll play your game...but they may be willing to sit on the bike until Pandy comes along so who knows.

They wouldn't cut a deal on a bike that needed new tires...  There's NO WAY they'll cut a deal on paint.

I would wait untill you found one that is right.  Repainting is nerve racking and makes your apt smell like paint for weeks, My wife hates this..... :laugh:.  And I don't want to spent the money it would take to get a good paint job from a shop, I like my cushion :laugh: :laugh:. 

 :o  I gotta wonder what this orange one would look like with my yellow gear...   :laugh:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/mcy/331113704.html

Oh man, that's sweeeeeeet!

got pics of your gear?

Hey..who else voted that they're pandy!? :flipoff: :laugh:

Quote from: RVertigo on May 16, 2007, 05:42:16 PM
:o  I gotta wonder what this orange one would look like with my yellow gear...   :laugh:

Ewwww....cut it out...I just ate!  :o :cookoo:

Ever seen the yellow power ranger, like that just.  :cookoo:

Quote from: bubba zanetti on May 16, 2007, 09:49:02 PM
Ever seen the yellow power ranger, like that just.  :cookoo:

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(http://www.helmetoutletusa.com/product_images/thumbnails/400wh_yellow.jpg)
(http://www.buymoto.com/photos/iconretrojacket-2T.jpg)
(http://www.indysuperbike.com/image.php?productid=120033)

Stop insulting the poor power rangers!  :laugh:

Special Terry is the pink power ranger & mach1 is the wanna be power ranger.  :laugh:

You're smoking rocks for buying a used bike from a dealership anyway, so who cares.  Seriously though, there's no sense in painting a perfectly good motorcycle unless it has been damaged (scratched/dropped/got brake fluid all over it/small fire/etc.).  Get something in the color you want... like a Star Warrior Midnight Onyx...

(http://www.ferracci.com/imgUpload/uploaded/bike_192_f_11411422451.jpeg)

There will be no painting and no dealers...

I bought a 2002 Mean Streak...  It looks just like the one at the top of the page, here:

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/31aug01kawasaki2002meanstreak.html


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Congrats man!  Leave the paint, it probably looks black at night anyway and most people don't care what color it is when you look that badass.   :thumb:

Orange still looks orange at night.    :icon_mrgreen: :icon_mrgreen:

Wild colors get the most attention from YWBs   ;)      :cheers:

(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f247/SmartDrug/CopyofIMG_3134.jpg)

Quote from: RVertigo on May 18, 2007, 04:37:04 PM
There will be no painting and no dealers...
I bought a 2002 Mean Streak...  It looks just like the one at the top of the page, here:
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Congrats!  :cheers: :thumb: Even if it *is* orange! ???  :cookoo: :laugh: :kiss3:

YEAH IM THE PINK ONE.................. :flipoff: :flipoff: :flipoff: only problem is my helmet is gray and all the rest of my gear is black (like my bike)  I'm getting a black helmet soon  :icon_twisted: :icon_twisted:

thats a nice bike.  Curious as to how you are liking it, I am tossing around the idea of getting a cruiser for a second bike once the GS is payed off. 

I'm really liking it so far...  But, it's also given me even more respect for the GS. :icon_mrgreen:  It's super comfortable and faster than the GS, but it's also heavier and slower to corner.

It takes some getting used to putting your feet forward and not having monkey-butt after an hour of riding...  It felt wierd, 'cause I didn't feel like I'd been riding...  I felt kinda like I just woke up from a nice afternoon nap.   :laugh:

If you haven't ridden a cruiser, do it...  It's pretty different.  I don't feel the need to zip around traffic and go as fast as I can (well, as much anyway).

It is an entirely different mentality.  I'm not sure if I'm sold on it yet.  I put 250 miles on my buddy's Suzuki Savage 650 and hated it.  I didn't fit on it (way too tall) and it topped out at about 75 mph.  Then I rode a VTX1300 and it was night and day.  I didn't find it as enjoyable as a sportbike, but it was much more comfortable.  My wrists weren't aching, my back felt fine and the pace was much less intense.  I found the cruiser to be much closer in comparison to driving a car.  Your inputs don't have the same dramatic effect on the direction the bike goes and you can relax a lot more; whether or not that is actually a good thing is a subject of some debate, you really can't afford to not be paying 100% attention to the road when riding in my opinion.  But I suppose on a long highway trip with no one around, it would be nice to shut down the mind for a minute.  As RV said, check it out, very different, you might like it.

Yeah...  The Savage650/S40 is a damn small bike.  I rode my sisters and my body started to hurt faster than when I rode the GS...  After an hour I wanted off and after two hours I HAD to get off.......  But, it was still fun to putt around.