Further
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I got the bike back from Underground Colors here in San Francisco nearly a month ago, but hadn't taken a decent photo yet to publish until this weekend, when I was up in Napa Valley.
Pete the Painter at Underground did a great job. I've always liked the bold stripe stuff that BMW was using on some bikes like their Rockster and K1200RS, so I borrowed that. I mocked up a PhotoShop image for Pete and he just nailed it exactly, right down to the fade on the trailing edge and the bottom (which you can't really see in this shot very well).
I would have done the whole front of the bike including the upper cowling, but I wanted to keep it less expensive, and save myself the enormous work of pulling off that upper cowling. I'm happy with the compromise. It's kinda like getting a 2-tone for the price of a single-tone. To emphasize the "cheap" part, I painted the silver plastic strip on the bottom of the tank myself. Not bad for government work.
Hope y'all like it, and that it gives some other people an idea about how to do a little custom look on the cheap.
Chris
Pete the Painter at Underground did a great job. I've always liked the bold stripe stuff that BMW was using on some bikes like their Rockster and K1200RS, so I borrowed that. I mocked up a PhotoShop image for Pete and he just nailed it exactly, right down to the fade on the trailing edge and the bottom (which you can't really see in this shot very well).
I would have done the whole front of the bike including the upper cowling, but I wanted to keep it less expensive, and save myself the enormous work of pulling off that upper cowling. I'm happy with the compromise. It's kinda like getting a 2-tone for the price of a single-tone. To emphasize the "cheap" part, I painted the silver plastic strip on the bottom of the tank myself. Not bad for government work.
Hope y'all like it, and that it gives some other people an idea about how to do a little custom look on the cheap.
Chris
