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randomsquid · #16 Post by **randomsquid** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:40 pm

If I had a shiny framed one to paint it would end up Triumph Wedgewood blue.
Probably look crap next to CF though.

How about that obnoxiously day glow orange that I've seen on bits of RSVs.

#17 Post by **mangocrazy** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:46 pm

blinkey501 wrote:
D-Rider wrote:You could go for a Thunderbirds inspired theme .............................

To match pete's hat???

Did somebody mention hats?

MartDude · #18 Post by **MartDude** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:40 pm

Leave the carbon fibre - getting a bit common these days, like Burberry

fatboy · #19 Post by **fatboy** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:14 pm

Speak to someone that sprays candy and pearl, out of the regular box colours !
Metallic flip flop black ?

blinkey501 · #20 Post by **blinkey501** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:35 pm

fatboy wrote:Speak to someone that sprays candy and pearl, out of the regular box colours !
Metallic flip flop black ?

The white bike was pearl mate. I am looking at something easier.

D-Rider · #21 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:37 pm

Dyno-rod Orange

.... and if you want to see what it might look like, here's an SV done in that very shade (yes, really - genuine Dyno-rod colour)

Might need some contrasting black or silver to set it off.

#22 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:51 pm

The camera has a real problem with that colour...! And from memory the colour on Dyno-Rod vans goes off really quickly. I once got a bike painted fluorescent pink and purple, and that also degraded really quickly.

Just as well - forced me to paint it black...

Aladinsaneuk · #23 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:20 pm

pink and purple

did your boyfriend like it???

#24 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:37 pm

Ha.

The whole sorry saga was actually recounted in Superbike magazine in the early 90s. I built a 'kit bike' based on a Hejira chassis , with a YPVS350 engine for my then girlfriend, who was only 5 ft 2 in tall. The colours were her idea... By the time it was finished we'd split up, so it promptly got re-painted black.

Here's a Superbike mag that had part 2 of the article:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPERBIKE-mag ... 0341865836

And here's what the bike looked like shortly before I sold it.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ultimatelc ... 0page.html

I really regret getting rid of it now...

D-Rider · #25 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:49 pm

Interesting read and the bike looks great.

No pics of the former girlfriend then ?

We could have introduced her to Tim - he likes them a bit taller than himself

HisNibbs · #26 Post by **HisNibbs** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:58 pm

mangocrazy wrote:I really regret getting rid of it now...

I should think so!

#27 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:00 pm

If I knew then what I know now, I'd have not bothered with the stinkwheel engine, but put a Rotax 640 single in it. I do like two-strokes, but low maintenance they are not. It handled like a race bike (not really surprising, I suppose). Changed direction through power of thought alone. And a six pot caliper and 320mm disc, even if there was only one, meant that it stopped like buggery as well...

blinkey501 · #28 Post by **blinkey501** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:10 am

D-Rider wrote:Dyno-rod Orange

.... and if you want to see what it might look like, here's an SV done in that very shade (yes, really - genuine Dyno-rod colour)

Might need some contrasting black or silver to set it off.

Fuck that

fatboy · #29 Post by **fatboy** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:17 pm

The white bike was pearl mate. I am looking at something easier.

Hammerite ?

Ok,ok, some fool had to say it