what have you done to your "bike" today

[Kev L]

[agentpineapple]

continued the repair/bodge up of the pineapple express, tidied up the c/f engine protector, rubbed down and refilled the bodywork, painted a mirror and then promptly dropped it on the floor...
started to clean the two brothers exhaust, but it was killing my wrist, so that'll have to wait.

[lloydie]

You dropped the bike again or the mirror ?

I walked pass mine today (it's a bird and don't need any tinker time :-()

[lumpyv]

yearly trip to

http://www.chrisselfmotorcycles.com/

for my mot. passed with the normal advisory for exhausts and also showing a small problem with the front disk but not enough to fail the test. it was the same last year? he said to monitor front brake juddering.

then went for a quick 40 mile spin round Suffolk

[agentpineapple]

You dropped the bike again or the mirror ?

I walked pass mine today (it's a bird and don't need any tinker time :-()

I just dropped the freshly painted mirror on the floor, so i'll have to rub it down and respray it again.....doh!
you tinkering with miss piggy then?

[lloydie]

You silly sod .
Not touched it for a week now ,
Should get time to tomorrow as I need a fix !

[bigtwinthing]

I would imagine this kind of thing has been posted numerous times but since I'm new here still, I'm gonna jump in on this thread too.
When i bought the storm it had this (in my opinion) horrible purple screen.

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But today mr postie delivered a nice new light smoke one for me.



I think it looks much better.

The black adjustable levers i put on a little while ago but heres a pic anyway!!



Just need my new chain n sprockets to hurry up and get here so i can get back on the road.

and by a bloody bigger camera

[agentpineapple]

You silly sod .
Not touched it for a week now ,
Should get time to tomorrow as I need a fix !

get stuck in mate.
I've done a bit today, but my wrist was bloody sore when I finished.
filled and rubbed down the filler again, keyed the paint and removed the firestorm decal, before priming. just got to get some 2000 grit wet n dry, and wait for the paint to arrive, bloody tricky doing every thing left handed tho, I even managed to tart up my damaged c/f engine cover.
from this....

to this.....

to this.....

then this.....


just got to wait for the paint to turn up now.

[lloydie]

Why did you paint all that ?
You only needed to do the bare plastic and key the rest

[agentpineapple]

the plastic had deep gravel rash, and I don't do anything by halves lloydie....lol

oh and the engine cover went from this

to this

[lloydie]

Did a good job on the cover [THUMBS UP SIGN]

[lloydie]

Your coolant bottle is open Marty

[agentpineapple]

Your coolant bottle is open Marty

yeah I checked the level, the top is back on now mate, just waiting for a brake pedal to turn up, and some paint, I've got a spare indicator and mirror, so it's all good, a new firestorm sticker will cost a fair bit tho...

[TheGingerBeardMan]

I even managed to tart up my damaged c/f engine cover.

I'll second what others have said - that looks like a bloody fine job on the Carbonardi cover - I have the same one, and don't know how the heck you've managed to sort it.

Has it been re covered in carbon Hydro-dip? Or, did you buy a sheet of carbon effect sticky and cut a circle out? Or did you sit for ages with a tiny paintbrush, and paint grey and black squares on it?

[agentpineapple]

I even managed to tart up my damaged c/f engine cover.

I'll second what others have said - that looks like a bloody fine job on the Carbonardi cover - I have the same one, and don't know how the heck you've managed to sort it.

Has it been re covered in carbon Hydro-dip? Or, did you buy a sheet of carbon effect sticky and cut a circle out? Or did you sit for ages with a tiny paintbrush, and paint grey and black squares on it?

it's rough as arseholes mate, the camera made the repair look better than what it is, I gave the affected area a little spray of satin black paint, then used clear lacquer poured from a touch up pen, into a spray can lid and painted the clear lacquer on with a small paint brush, trust me ain't that good, but it'll do for now.