Looks great Ian:fact but I hate to say it but it's begging for a touch of yellow back there. Maybe a stripe down the center.:dunno

 

I know I'll get lots of opinions but I've lived with it for a while now and it's growing on me as is. Not that I don't value peoples input because I'm not 100% sure it's finished, depends what I hear :fact

 

Looks awesome Ian. Aren't you concerned it will slow your bike down though (replacing yellow pieces with black)? :lol

 

Thanks :thumbup but it's OK I can't ride it to it's full anyway :lol

 

is Bogie your photographer?

 

No :lol

 

looks badass!!! and that swingarm is amazing :fact:

 

Thanks Toe.

 

Can you please post a 'before' picture at the bottom of the new pics mate? I'm on my phone and it's a bit slow to navigate etc.

 

:thumbup

 

looks very nice.

 

Thanks man.

Nicley done! And your swingarm?

Thanks they are both done by the same guy :thumbup

Awesome Ian. It's exactly what the bike needed to make it a bit more unique. It also compliments how seriously racey the front end now is. There's something about nickel Brembo's and a solo seat cowl that just done jive. I've never liked the silly rubber block on the oem cowls anyway.

I think it's perfectly balanced color wise. The plane on which the black falls into place is deadly even. Love it.

My only suggestion would be to get something going on the flat section behind the seat. A cleanly cut foam pad, a signature sticker, or even the tuning forks logo in white would add some great contrast. Nice work.

So who wants to start taking bets? I say she's all black by 2012.

Thanks Seth, I'm looking into something for the flat section :thumbup

And that's all the black you get now :fact :lol

Ian I really like it bit I agree with B'eater. It needs a stripe of yellow. Personally I likes the scheme before. I say paint it the same way.

Appreciate the comments and I can see where you are coming from but, like I say, I've lived with it a bit now and imagined it for over a year.
There's no way it will go back to yellow back there :fact

 

Nicley done! And your swingarm?

 

Awesome Ian. It's exactly what the bike needed to make it a bit more unique. It also compliments how seriously racey the front end now is. There's something about nickel Brembo's and a solo seat cowl that just done jive. I've never liked the silly rubber block on the oem cowls anyway.

I think it's perfectly balanced color wise. The plane on which the black falls into place is deadly even. Love it.

My only suggestion would be to get something going on the flat section behind the seat. A cleanly cut foam pad, a signature sticker, or even the tuning forks logo in white would add some great contrast. Nice work.

So who wants to start taking bets? I say she's all black by 2012.

 

My only suggestion would be to get something going on the flat section behind the seat. A cleanly cut foam pad, a signature sticker, or even the tuning forks logo in white would add some great contrast. Nice work.

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Where have I heard this before. :dunno :sing: :sing:

 

Ian I really like it bit I agree with B'eater. It needs a stripe of yellow. Personally I likes the scheme before. I say paint it the same way.

 

Great job Ian, very nice, even the yellow bits. :lol

 

:lol Thanks a lot Don you have no idea how hard it was to admit it needed to be black back there

 

Looks about as good as a yellow bike can.


Probably because it's mostly black now.



Nice work, looks very clean. Is the tail work/bonding fiberglass? or Bondo? Or?

 

:lol :2bitchsla There's still more yellow bodywork.

It's been done with a whole combination of bonding agents depending what was being put together. There is some metal bonded in there to fill the old lock hole and fenders mounting holes and that was bonded with a different compound than what was used to join the tail to the Targa cowl. The finishing was done with glass and bondo.

 

Is very cool in design but beaters right, needs something yellow or it's just not finished. You said that. I know Targa probably gave you a stick on pad but as its still a street bike consider a pad made from your OEM seat. Easily done with no cost and custom designed by you. Just talking about this on the 6 forum. This was Targa and OEM.

 

OEM pad does NOT belong on a Targa cowl. :shake

 

Yellow stripes are for paved roads and Nascars!

 

I like it just the way it is. Looks great man!

 

If it needs anything its some BST wheels to go with all that carbon!

 

the quality of the tail looks good, but i'm agreeing with everyone else, you could do white or yellow back there and it would look a lot better. just need to get creative with it.

 

Looks great man. as long as you like it thats all that matters

Sean

 

I think it looks fantastic Ian, very racy and unique. :bow
I'm obviously going to disagree with everyone else, I like it black, it makes the colours of the front half pop out even more. I can see the line that runs from the bottom tip of the lowers, and up along the underside of the tank/seat. Everyone else must be blind...EVERYONE!:crash
Are you going to drill holes and put the tail tidy back in the OEM spot, or do something US ?
I've been thinking about putting a race subframe on mine, and bonding the solo cowl to the seat unit too!

 

Mate, looks fantastic! :fact..........the chicken strips........not so much:no :hammer: :vanish

 

i see the darkside is starting to take over.

the tail doesn't need shit but a couple clean white decals. something OEM.

 

We all have a little darkside in us but that's as far as mine goes :lol

Thanks Roc the more you look at it the more right it looks :fact Not saying there may be a little something else but right now the white Yamaha on the top is enough for me.

Looks great! I really like it.

Thanks a lot man.

 

Looks great! I really like it.

 

That looks outstanding! I may just have to look into that!

 

Thanks Zombie but be warned it isn't cheap, there is a lot of labor involved :sneaky

Thanks for the work Steve :thumbup I am looking into something for behind the seat but there is no yellow going back on the tail :fact

 

oh wow chris, i wouldn't even have though of that, but i really like that idea with the tank.

 

 

That's what I'm talking about.:fact

 

that looks freaking amazing what petrol did, why don't you want yellow back on the tail ian?

 

Because the lines of color on the bike don't flow to the tail :no

Small white number plates on each side would look good IMO. :thumbup

This is the only sort of thing I might consider, goes with the race image of the tail and doesn't upset the color lines :fact
I will not be doing anything for a while though, I lived with the yellow for a number of years before changing that, so I'll live with the black for a while.