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Performance and CustomizingShare your tips and tricks on customizing your sportbike. From windscreens, footpegs, undertails, flushmounts, paint, exhausts, and tires.
Okay, I got this F3 in may....the black and purple and yellow scheme. I laid it down in august when my back tire broke loose in a parking lot. The plastics on the left side were pretty much effed, so they came off and what could be repaired got it and what couldn't got replaced.
I also took off the crappy grips, bar ends, and screen that were on there and got some better junk on there. Progrip superbike grips, LP aluminum bar ends, and a zero gravity double bubble. Along with a bright arctic white paint job.
Everything got sanded, them primed with 2-3 coats, then painted with 2-3 coats. Nothing got cleared, so I'll have to be reaaallllllllly careful with the gas tank, but since we painted it at home just mixing the paint and then spraying it even if it does need repainted at this point most of the difficult stuff is done anyway.
it does still need decals, but right now I'm trying to decide between silver decals for the honda wing and stuff, or black. photoshops anyone?
i was thinking of doing the best of the black and silver worlds and getting decals that had the background shadow type thing.....still debating on that.
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now that's a hell of an idea. i think a nice copper or bronze would look cool, I wonder how much powder coating would run.......
this is going to be getting expensive methinks. everytime I think it's done I find a couple hundred more to get into it.
I had one a coulple of friends clean the wheels with brillow pads real good then paint the wheels with spray cans from auto zone they came out clean ill try to get some pics this weekend. just a good cheap way to go instead of powder coating wheels.
I had one a coulple of friends clean the wheels with brillow pads real good then paint the wheels with spray cans from auto zone they came out clean ill try to get some pics this weekend. just a good cheap way to go instead of powder coating wheels.
the lips of the rims are smooth, but the actual spokes are pebbly, so I don't know how well I could get all that cleaned off to paint, which is really the only reason I can see to hold back.
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