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Old Apr 4, 2014 | 12:01 PM
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When I bought my bike last year I liked everything about it except for the accent colors in the paint job. Last night I picked up $6 worth of black pin striping and covered the blue and purple paint.



It made such a huge difference!!
 
Old Apr 4, 2014 | 12:08 PM
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Yes, looks allot better with the black...
 
Old Apr 4, 2014 | 12:11 PM
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Looks good, but it will peel since it is on top of the paint. You could probably get a pinstriper to paint those lines black like you have it so it is more permanent.
 
Old Apr 4, 2014 | 12:15 PM
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Looks good, but it will peel since it is on top of the paint. You could probably get a pinstriper to paint those lines black like you have it so it is more permanent.
Yeah I wanted to see how it would look first. I'll have to have a painter look at it, I'm not sure if it can be striped then cleared or if he would have sand down the clear first.
 
Old Apr 4, 2014 | 12:23 PM
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That looks really nice. Not over the top flashy!
 
Old Apr 4, 2014 | 12:32 PM
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Been thinking about the same thing for the Road Glide striping.
 

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Old Apr 4, 2014 | 04:59 PM
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Huge improvement, it makes the detail inside the pinstriping stand out instead of detracting from it. Nice bike (or will be once you finish the pinstriping).
 
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All done with the pin striping. I'll probably look into having it painted black next winter.


 
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Old Apr 4, 2014 | 06:01 PM
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Do the pinstripping yourself? Looks like a pretty decent job.
 
Old Apr 4, 2014 | 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Olsen185
All done with the pin striping. I'll probably look into having it painted black next winter.


Good call, that looks great in black. It's a huge improvement. The standard procedure on painting the black on would be to sand all the clear, then paint the black pin stripes & re-clear everything. In do so, nobody would ever know the paint job was modified.
 



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