Paint my bike!

[crofty1984]

All being well, I'll be picking up a zzr600 later today. It's been resprayed in black, quite badly if I'm honest. Ok, it's ste. Anyway, I thought I'd get some rattle cans have a bit of fun with it. Current ideas are:
Get some white, mask bits off, go zebra style.
Put a big skull and crossbones on the side. Not sure what I'd do with the rest of the bike.
Go NATO green and put army stencils on (a bit cliche?)

I'll put a photo up later.

[moto_traxport]

How about like those rubbish urban camo bikie trousers?

Always thought it might look good on a whole bike. Pain in the bum to mask up though.

[sc0tt]

Yeah defo camouflage your bike.

Fantastic idea

[skahigh]

Go the other way...

[s3fella]

sc0tt said:

Yeah defo camouflage your bike.

Fantastic idea

I "saw" a guy with a snow cammo r6 and snow camo gar including lid stopped by the side of the road against a stone wall last year, (NSL area). I saw him about 15m away, it was ridiculous. Scared the st out of me as he was just invisible until right upon him.

[crofty1984]

Thanks for the suggestions 😊 I'm thinking about doing all the front Kawasaki green, then flames into black. Or maybe Focus st orange with black stripes. And also fixing the fuel gauge.

[sjtscott]

crofty1984 said:

Thanks for the suggestions ?? I'm thinking about doing all the front Kawasaki green, then flames into black. Or maybe Focus st orange with black stripes. And also fixing the fuel gauge.

How about current Kwak H2 clone paint triubute? Thinking the original 2015 ones with the met green frame Doesn't have to match exactly (that mirror paint isn't going to be a spray can job) but I think would be great.

[SteellFJ]

Don't paint it, you can buy small sheets of Vinyl wrap in anything you fancy for pennies on Ebay, Amazon Etc. Could even get a custom one made up.....

But suggestions wise a Digital Red/Blue Camo or Tiger/Zebra Stripes would be my choice, i also like the Sticker Bomb stuff which i'm thinking of doing to some dodgy patches on the OH's car.

[crofty1984]

SteellFJ said:

Don't paint it, you can buy small sheets of Vinyl wrap in anything you fancy for pennies on Ebay, Amazon Etc. Could even get a custom one made up.....

But suggestions wise a Digital Red/Blue Camo or Tiger/Zebra Stripes would be my choice, i also like the Sticker Bomb stuff which i'm thinking of doing to some dodgy patches on the OH's car.

Ooh, wrapping. Now there's a thought...

[SteveSteveson]

Chrome wrap and paint your exhaust and any visible engine parts matte black. Like a Harley in negative.

Pink and orange stripes.

Rust pattern vinyl wrap.

Thats me out of odd ideas for now...

Edited by SteveSteveson on Thursday 5th May 13:47

[crofty1984]

I'm genuinely considering blue chrome wrap and maybe something like a cartoon skulls stickerbomb wrap for the tank. Though I do like the black engine idea.

[SteellFJ]

Glad i opened your eyes to Vinyl

i'll just leave this here: http://www.street-efx.com/bikes.html (P.s i know its an R1)

This one may be a bit OTT though.

[crofty1984]

Right, blue chrome wrap ordered. Because if there's one thing a 55,000 mile '95 Kawasaki needs it's blue chrome wrap. I'll put up progress on here.

[SteellFJ]

Looking forward too seeing this now

[SteellFJ]

Updates?

[crofty1984]

Massive anticlimax I'm afraid. I did buy it, but made a proper mangle of getting it on the bike. I just couldn't get it to mould properly to the shape (apparently the shiny ones are bad for this).
I'm going to just go metallic blue paint for the top half and silver for the bottom half, with black engine cases.
But to prove I DID try:





And Jesus, that bike's been apart more times than a we's ankles. Cracked and snapped mountings, mismatched bolts, rubber grommets missing...
Mind you, as soon as the new brake disc's on, she's back on the road!
Also, the Bonnie was on fire a little bit.