V2 90º DOHC tail graphic

[Wicky]

After over 10 years of sunshine and rain, the paint or rather it seems the lacquer in parts has gone a cataract opaque white causing the bike to go a nice faded shade of pink - So armed with with wet n dry, etch a prime, a can of R157 and some fresh laquer. But before that I'd asked a local vinyl graphics firm ( http://instantimagesigns.co.uk/ ) the job of recreating the original tail V2 90º DOHC graphic.

From photos I traced the design as a vector in Adobe Illustrator - fun bit was duplicating the dotted half-tone gradient. With that done they were able to make a chrome and black vinyl sticker (the original is a screen-printed transfer) which took a bit of trial and error as the chrome vinyl couldn't be printed on, so they had to make it in two parts - transparent printed with black overlaying the chrome.

Today I put it all back together inc tail seat cover and mudguard and am happily chuffed at the sparkling spring clean.

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[sirch345]

That looks good to me Wicky Well done

Chris.

[Wicky]

Now going to do an alternative tail logo based on Mario Nava image

http://web.tiscalinet.it/mario_nava/vtr1000_e.html

[sirch345]

Keep up the good work Wicky

Chris.

[Rollingthunder]

image works at ilkeston (they google) have the original patterns for these.....