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Just an update. It's not pretty, kind of rough really, but I'm working with what I've got haha. After taking off the body panels, I discovered what I assumed was wrong with them, it must've been laid down at some point and the body panels were damaged pretty good. Then they tried to repair it with I don't even know what, and then covered it in fake carbon fiber vinyl wrap. The wrap itself didn't look bad but the manner in which is applied was terrible.
So because I believe the vinyl wrap is what's holding parts of the panels together, I went a different direction and painted over it with truck bed liner, suggested by my father in law. It came out better then I expected. Since I eventually want to buy new body panels to clean it up, I left the tank gloss black since the bed liner spray would be awful to sand down.
After that I painted the previously green frame flat black, replaced all of the turn signals, replaced the fuel cock. They must've lost all of the fairing bolts because they're were all regular hardware store bolts with most missing so I replaced all of those, also bought a ton of other bolts that were just missing. To improve visibility for people behind me, I installed 2 red LED strips along the rear frame.
Next is to replace the front tire which is slowly leaking, and recover the seat with black to completely get rid of the green that was on this bike. This was a long explanation, thanks to whomever reads this far but every time I go to work on this bike I ask the question, "What the hell did the last owner do to this thing?" So I feel like I have to vent, haha.
Just an update. It's not pretty, kind of rough really, but I'm working with what I've got haha. After taking off the body panels, I discovered what I assumed was wrong with them, it must've been laid down at some point and the body panels were damaged pretty good. Then they tried to repair it with I don't even know what, and then covered it in fake carbon fiber vinyl wrap. The wrap itself didn't look bad but the manner in which is applied was terrible.
So because I believe the vinyl wrap is what's holding parts of the panels together, I went a different direction and painted over it with truck bed liner, suggested by my father in law. It came out better then I expected. Since I eventually want to buy new body panels to clean it up, I left the tank gloss black since the bed liner spray would be awful to sand down.
After that I painted the previously green frame flat black, replaced all of the turn signals, replaced the fuel cock. They must've lost all of the fairing bolts because they're were all regular hardware store bolts with most missing so I replaced all of those, also bought a ton of other bolts that were just missing. To improve visibility for people behind me, I installed 2 red LED strips along the rear frame.
Next is to replace the front tire which is slowly leaking, and recover the seat with black to completely get rid of the green that was on this bike. This was a long explanation, thanks to whomever reads this far but every time I go to work on this bike I ask the question, "What the hell did the last owner do to this thing?" So I feel like I have to vent, haha.
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