That's how much I hated those pink flames on the last paint job. haha Anything has to be better than that. Down to the final days, he keeps extending on me, but sounds like he's almost done with paint. Hoping this coming weekend I'll be putting my bike back together. As far as teardown, it's a lot easier than you think. The only part that's kind of a pain is the wiring, but if you label everything it's pretty easy to piece back together. The way I do it, is one system at a time. Start with a zip lock baggie and a sharpie, label the bag, then take something off the bike and put all the bolts and hardware that go with it in the baggie. Do that with everything on the bike and you'll have it apart in no time. I think teardown was around 8 hours total on mine, then probably over 100 hours degreasing, cleaning, polishing everything I took off lol It's been about 10 years since I've had the bike stripped down to the frame, and it's had several oil leaks and busted lines since then, quite a bit of crud build up where I couldn't get to it without removing the motor from the frame.

 

Painter asked for more time this weekend but sent me a pic of my wife's helmet, much less nervous after seeing this quality

 

Picked up my paint today lots of flake and looks pretty good, starting reassembly tomorrow evening

 

couple more pics




close up of the pattern





Hard to catch all the flake in the paint

 

Looking really great! Working on a repaint myself. Can't wait to see it all together.

 

looks good I'll be waiting to see the rebuild...

 

Looks great, congratulations

 

made some progress this afternoon, it's going back together pretty well, just asking my time so I don't miss anything.




engine back in

 

Electrical and triple trees and cabling

 

oh man what a trip! can't wait to see it all together.