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love it...!.....note to self................must paint downpipes

looks good for the money .
the exhaust will polish up well , takes some elbow grease but the do clean up good
not much you can do about the yellow except paint it green or black

i like the yellow ones....your one in the avatar looks good in green though............

when the pearl yellow is polished up and in the sun they do look good

but the green looks way better

i was quoted £40 to have the exhaust shot blasted, then buy a can of eastwood satin black vht satin black paint, good for 1200 degree's...............job done

yeah i think im going to go down the painted route for the down pipes....also needs a bellypan, i dont see the point in that dinky little one, looks a bit of an after-thought by honda tbh ......may mod one up off another bike...........

i had spare 2-1 sand blasted for free
then autosol to polish it back up
i have a belly pan that i might put up for sale soon need painted tho

but now in black

looks like a bargain but go easy on the tyre oil lol

not cheap but well worth it, quality stuff....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280869704424? ... 1497.l2649

lloydiecbr wrote:i had spare 2-1 sand blasted for free
then autosol to polish it back up
i have a belly pan that i might put up for sale soon need painted tho

but now in black

first dibs on the bellypan if/when it goes up for sale...

Nice bike Jim. Always think its the next best colour to Red, Snot Green would be well down the list.

i dont see the point in that dinky little one, looks a bit of an after-thought by honda tbh

I know what you mean. They just look so wrong without a proper fairing lower.

(:-})

cybercarl wrote:

i dont see the point in that dinky little one, looks a bit of an after-thought by honda tbh

I know what you mean. They just look so wrong without a proper fairing lower.

(:-})

strongly agree

The only other belly pan that looks right on the vtr is the moriwaki the rest all look like after thoughts

IMHO it's personal choice on what you like when it comes to aftermarket lower fairings or bellypans. I did have (as my avatar shows) a Power Bronze lower fairing on my bike. I didn't like the quality of it so I sold it. If it had been a better quality I probably would have kept it. At the moment I have done the same as Lloydie has done to his standard nose cone oil filter protector, painted it black. Personally I think it gets lost somewhat with the engine/gearbox lump when it's black, rather than standing out much more when left in it's original colour silver.

I do wonder though why we (well some of us ) including me in the past want to make our Firestorms look like every other race rep, by trying to make the 3/4 length fairing (which is fairly unique on it's own) look like a full fairing

Chris.