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

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 

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

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.

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

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. 

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


I know, I know...  I'll be patient.

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

Sounds like a personal problem to me!  

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. 

   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..... .  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 . 

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

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!?

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

Ewwww....cut it out...I just ate! 

Ever seen the yellow power ranger, like that just. 

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

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