The metal parts on the bike, mainly steel parts were kinda rusty and looked a bit shabby. So of they came, i removed the exhaust headers, top triple tree clamp, clip ons and H frame. With a bit of sanding with a wire wheel and some sanding pads they went from rusty to kinda silvery-ish again.
Parts sanded ready for paint!
I also cleaned inside the headers and ohh my should of seen how much carbon came out. i knew the bike was running rich but now i know how rich.
Yes i did it, i had to, i got the die grinder out and got rid of those nasty welds on the inside, they looked pretty restrictive especially before i cleaned them when it was full or carbon.
Clutch lever mount thingy of and ready for paint
I used a wonderful product call Killrust. ohh my god this thing is amazing, its and epoxy paint and once dried looks like powdercoat, no jokes. Due to the cold weather i got a little help from an old oven to bake the paint on. It was about 11 degrees ambient temp in the shed so roughly 200 degrees oven temp was used due to the door being open.
More painted parts, clip ons, H frame and tripple clamp done!
New levers fitted to lever mount clutch side, pic dont do it justice, the paint on the mount actually looks really good in person. I just have bad camera skills.
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