Bead Blasting or similar

[tuftywhite]

Have PM'd you with stuff

[DanielS]

Well I started the strip down on Sunday, I only had a few hours but it's a start.

It started off like this:




I started off by draining the engine oil and removing the old filter, nice hey?



Then just worked my way around, stripped the rear rack, all the panels, the tank, bits of the air filter, the ECU and finally the front wheel. When I get some time I'll be taking the exhaust off next...

[DanielS]

While sitting at work I've been googling and have found some photos, some photoshops and made some of my own. Anyone like any of these, I'm tempted to build the bike up slightly differently, but we'll see, it's just ideas for now.

[Hugh]

Greetings Daniel,

I quite like the first, second and last but not the others, sorry

TTFN

Hugh.

[DanielS]

Hey Hugh. Well that's good to hear as the second and the last are easy peasy, just a colour change The First could be a bit more difficult as it needs the subframe chipping and stuff.

[Craig-SM]

First one too. More difficult but you wouldn’t want it to be too easy

[DanielS]

Where's the angle grinder?

[Tonibe63]

Forget the knobblies, they will spoil the ride.

[qcnr]

I'm a sucker for knobblies

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

I think the first and last are best...I don't like pseudo dirt-bike look.

I menat to say earlier that if any of the ally castings are raw (ie not painted or laquered) you can sometimes get them really good by boiling them up in a tub of old-school washing powder, then rinsing carefully.

When I worked on Classic Bike, it's what a good few people did to make the ally engine parts look not quite brand new on their restorations.