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[G-Pro29]

Hi all just bought my first v-twin and well wow what a bike, it's a 99 model with high mileage but service history and every mot and stacks of paper work with it, cost me £1100 it's a little tatty on the fairings but it's off for respray next week but so glad I bought it.

Forum looks great

Gav

[AMCQ46]

Welcome to the club, great bikes for the price.....assume you're having it painted a good colour















Yes yellow
Anything else would just dissapoint you

[lloydie]

Hellos and welcomes
High mileage really ! What's it got ?
Mines at 67000 miles and is still strong :-) well it is black :-) lol

[Kev L]

Welcome to the club Gav. What colour scheme are you gonig with?

[VTRDark]

Welcome to this very colourful forum. Enjoy the fun and games and prepare to be enlightened to the world of Firestorms.



(:-})

[agentpineapple]

welcome aboard gav, whereabouts do you live, don't forget to post some pictures of your freshly painted bike.
i like the honda legends paintjob. you'd need powerbronze lowers to help with that look tho......

[seb421]

Agree a TT legends firestorm would look the dogs danglers mate gotta have the powerbronze to go with it defo!

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[G-Pro29]

Hi guys thanks for your kind messages, unfortunately I'm on a budget and a mate of mine has a repair centre so he's only charging me the cost of the materials, the bikes currently silver with orange wheels but I'm going a high gloss black all over, my mate recommended the wheels the same but I'm unsure on these ? I will of course add a few subtle stickers, I'm a massive Valentino Rossi fan and I love the flourecent yellow that he's well known for so it may well end up high gloss black with a few subtle fluorescent yellow touches here and there, It won't be everyone's liking but I guess as long as I'm happy

As for mileage it's got 58k on it but looking at some of the others on the forum I'm far from alone and they all seem to be going strong still.

I'll post up before and after pics when she's all finished

Cheers Gav

[tony.mon]

Leg ends? That's feet, isn't it?

So a sort of pink colour, dirtier underneath?


I suppose it would grow on you.


Unless you meant the other end of the leg.





(In which case it would be a sort of pink colour, dirtier underneath).

[seb421]

Hi guys thanks for your kind messages, unfortunately I'm on a budget and a mate of mine has a repair centre so he's only charging me the cost of the materials, the bikes currently silver with orange wheels but I'm going a high gloss black all over, my mate recommended the wheels the same but I'm unsure on these ? I will of course add a few subtle stickers, I'm a massive Valentino Rossi fan and I love the flourecent yellow that he's well known for so it may well end up high gloss black with a few subtle fluorescent yellow touches here and there, It won't be everyone's liking but I guess as long as I'm happy

As for mileage it's got 58k on it but looking at some of the others on the forum I'm far from alone and they all seem to be going strong still.

I'll post up before and after pics when she's all finished

Cheers Gav

White is the new black

[G-Pro29]

I did strongly think about white, but decided on black in the end.

[lumpyv]

welcome gav. hope you like your new bike, they are great

it might have been better if you had,nt mentioned anything about the colour though.

[simo]

Welcome to the Forum M8. Great bikes aren't they. Just tell folk on here you've painted it Red and that'll be the end of it.

[G-Pro29]

Lol I take it there's lots of banter on the best colour then, tbh I've not seen a storm in a bad colour they are all pretty nice it's just black was my preference haha

[lloydie]

Yep black always wins my vote .