Well, after about 9 months of trying to convince myself to start modifying my bike it has started.
Firstly i met with the guy who was going to respray my fairings, the son of the guy who owns said garage, who fortunately is a good friend from back in my school days.
We went through colour ideas (I was origionally thinking red and blue) but eventually decided on Orange (my favourite colour) and black.
Cool…colours decided, hard part over…I thought!
We move to the design stage and take a pen to my bike as it was (as below) and mark out where the different colours will go.
A couple of hours pass and we all have different ideas on what will look best and I can’t make my mind up but eventually we have a plan marked out.
So i leave him to do his thing.
A week later i return to find the rear fairings well under way:
Rear Hugger
its more of a pearscelent orange, it changes shade in different lighting but my phones camera isnt the best, and a sparkly glossy black.
From here i decided it would be best to out the PigSpotter 2 mirrors as I've out grown them, fill the holes so the front fairing is all flush and i bought a CRG Arrow bar end mirror. This also gives me more space to put a racing number or any decals i decide on...
Since the beginning of this project, i have bought some belly pan sponsor decals, a new set of honda wings stickers, accent lights from Joe Florida, a rear seat cowel, personal number plate (S16K RR), black aluminium mesh (to cover holes in fairings), an alarm with remote start (I know ill get slated for the remote start but its not about practicality or I wouldnt be doing this build) and new pair of Bridgestone Battlax BT-016 Pro (spent ageesss on the Bast*@#s with the white tyre pen but worth it in my opinion)
I believe the front fairing has been started now and im going to check up again on Friday and will update the thread next week.
Will also need to find some time to install the alarm, the LED accent lights and the mesh.
I was thinking about getting angel eyes too and was looking at BKmoto (i know hes a user on here) but i cant justify the price. Maybe on my next bike though...
Will update this post as and when. Hopefully she'll be ready for a couple of the big bike runs first being April 1st.
Hope you enjoy
Pierce
Firstly i met with the guy who was going to respray my fairings, the son of the guy who owns said garage, who fortunately is a good friend from back in my school days.
We went through colour ideas (I was origionally thinking red and blue) but eventually decided on Orange (my favourite colour) and black.
Cool…colours decided, hard part over…I thought!
We move to the design stage and take a pen to my bike as it was (as below) and mark out where the different colours will go.
A couple of hours pass and we all have different ideas on what will look best and I can’t make my mind up but eventually we have a plan marked out.
So i leave him to do his thing.
A week later i return to find the rear fairings well under way:
Rear Hugger
its more of a pearscelent orange, it changes shade in different lighting but my phones camera isnt the best, and a sparkly glossy black.
From here i decided it would be best to out the PigSpotter 2 mirrors as I've out grown them, fill the holes so the front fairing is all flush and i bought a CRG Arrow bar end mirror. This also gives me more space to put a racing number or any decals i decide on...
Since the beginning of this project, i have bought some belly pan sponsor decals, a new set of honda wings stickers, accent lights from Joe Florida, a rear seat cowel, personal number plate (S16K RR), black aluminium mesh (to cover holes in fairings), an alarm with remote start (I know ill get slated for the remote start but its not about practicality or I wouldnt be doing this build) and new pair of Bridgestone Battlax BT-016 Pro (spent ageesss on the Bast*@#s with the white tyre pen but worth it in my opinion)
I believe the front fairing has been started now and im going to check up again on Friday and will update the thread next week.
Will also need to find some time to install the alarm, the LED accent lights and the mesh.
I was thinking about getting angel eyes too and was looking at BKmoto (i know hes a user on here) but i cant justify the price. Maybe on my next bike though...
Will update this post as and when. Hopefully she'll be ready for a couple of the big bike runs first being April 1st.
Hope you enjoy
Pierce