So I pulled the engine and rebuilt (well sort of) it and now all I need is a nice pretty frame to put it in. What will I do? Oh, I know... sand blasting! Lets take a look at the frame before... Enjoy
So I found a sand blaster guy that was only 20 miles away
. anyway... He only charged me $70 bucks to blast everything that I gave him, frame, swing arm, center stand, side stand, battery box ... yeah, that's all. Once it was blasted i had a beautiful clean steel surface to prime. I used a nice rattle can duplicolor primer. It worked pretty well... so far. I thought about power coating but they didn't have a gold color... at all. they had yellow in a bunch of different shades and they had a bronze that was nice... but nothing even close to gold. So I went with a duplicolor that I picked out from Pepboys... yeah that's right Pepboys. Don't knock it till you've tried it. It took me 4 small cans and 2 large cans of clear coat ... but this is what it came out like. Put your sunglasses on.
I really like the way the frame came out... It looks clean and BRIGHT. Now that the frame is done I need to work on the triple tree and all the other stuff. So I spent about a zillion hours sanding and polishing the top tree and forks. Seriously ... it takes FOREVER. 125, 220, 400, 1500 grit wet sand paper then followed up by mothers polish. this is what that looks like...
I put the cafe bars on after I polished it just to see what it would look like.
The bottom tree is steel so I just painted that black. It looked great too.
Here is the top and bottom trees on the bike with my new KZ1000 tank .So far so good.
Tomorrow I'll post up the pictures of the new shocks and all the gory details of relacing the rims
.... Yeah that's right... I put new spokes on my rims... and they said I couldn't do it... WRONG.
Until tomorrow....
Matt-