I just finished afew mods on my bike and figured I'd post some pics.

before:



after





I just finished making the brackets for the headlight fairing, and the wheels and tires were finished last night along with the new race suspension in the front. For those that don't know; I painted the wheels myself using tremclad brush on gloss black paint. The new tires are Pirelli sport demons and the little headlight fairing is from some Buell.

looks good 

I like the wheels the best.

it would look cool if you painted the headlight housing and bracket black to match the windscreen.

the wind screen is actually carbon fiber but the plan is to black out the entire bike. balck frame, bodywork, lower fork legs, etc. now that I've goten it to this stage I'm starting to have second thoughts about blacking it all out. its starting to look good with the red body work and silver frame.

question for everyone.
What do you think? keep the red and black, or contiue with my plans and black everthing out?

looks good!

Contrasting and complimentary colors will always win out over solid black. Have you ever seen a professionally done solid black bike?

Quote from: ambisinister on April 14, 2006, 03:55:08 PM
Contrasting and complimentary colors will always win out over solid black. Have you ever seen a professionally done solid black bike?

yes. it was a mix of flat balck and gloss black. slight accents of red, witch is waht I was going to do. why? what do you have in mind?

all balck;



black with one other colour body work;



black with accents of red R6;

The bike would look awesome with a black frame, even if you didn't paint the tank & tail black. Why don't you try that black first (if you like it how it is now, black & red would probably look even cooler) and then decide if you want to go all black after you have black frame & red paint 

Quote from: mike_mike on April 14, 2006, 04:23:44 PM
The bike would look awesome with a black frame, even if you didn't paint the tank & tail black. Why don't you try that black first (if you like it how it is now, black & red would probably look even cooler) and then decide if you want to go all black after you have black frame & red paint 

I think thats my next step. I'm going to go with a satin or cemi-gloss paint for the frame to create a little contrast. then I'll go about putting on the new exhaust and painting the pipes flat black and polishing the aluminum can. from there I'll decide if I want to paint the body work balck or not. maybe some combination of red and black?

The yellow one looked real good, just my opinion, but I think solid colors are fine but the difference between hack work and excellence is in the details, You know, the little stuff

Quote from: ambisinister on April 14, 2006, 11:32:14 PM
The yellow one looked real good, just my opinion, but I think solid colors are fine but the difference between hack work and excellence is in the details, You know, the little stuff

so... what are you saying? all black? or black and red?

all black!

that yellow one looks really clean becuase of that nice tail someone build/modded onto it.

it has one of those cool veypor computers too.

I could be prejudiced beacause mine came stock black and red. Really though, YOU will be the one doing it and YOU will be the one riding it. As long as you're happy with result anybody else can go jump off a bridge

It is amazing what a little paint (and naval jelly, and JB Weld, and Bondo, and a 4.5" rear wheel, and Michelin radials, and a fresh Works Performance shock, and stiffer fork springs and revalved damper rods, and a 4 piston Nissin brake caliper, and a freshly rebuilt GSXR1100 steering damper, and a valve adjustment, and rejetting, and cleaning all the wiring harness connectors, and a spiffy new windscreen) can do...

Quote from: patrick on April 15, 2006, 10:12:38 PM
It is amazing what a little paint (and naval jelly, and JB Weld, and Bondo, and a 4.5" rear wheel, and Michelin radials, and a fresh Works Performance shock, and stiffer fork springs and revalved damper rods, and a 4 piston Nissin brake caliper, and a freshly rebuilt GSXR1100 steering damper, and a valve adjustment, and rejetting, and cleaning all the wiring harness connectors, and a spiffy new windscreen) can do...

And yet you still kept that huge rear fender! 

Quote from: AlphaFire X5 on April 15, 2006, 10:28:41 PM
And yet you still kept that huge rear fender! 

Brian, Brian, Brian. When you cut off the rear fender, you lose 3 horsepower, the handling goes to hell, and girls laugh at you.

I think its the other way, that all happens if you don't cut it down

Quote from: patrick on April 15, 2006, 10:35:27 PM
Brian, Brian, Brian. When you cut off the rear fender, you lose 3 horsepower, the handling goes to hell, and girls laugh at you.

patrick:

What did you do to the damper rods? Some have suggested welding the stock damping holes closed, but I'd like some specifics about what was done to yours to improve them... Who did the work? Do you have photos? Is this written up somewhere? Thanks...

Your bike has inspired me. imagine your bike, with a flat/cemi gloss black frame, swing arm and lower fork legs. seeing that picture really makes me want to go all black again. thanks man  

BSD, I'm really interested in seeing how your fork legs turn out. I'm thinking that might be a definite improvement on most of the bikes on here. With my black frame... mmm... I might have to bust out Photoshop to see