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Flat Rat Paint Job

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Flat Rat Paint Job

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Flat / Satin black is fine. Love the look of a "good" rat project. The problem I'm seeing is that it looks like a Rattler, meaning it has the lines of a bone stock L (L stands for Lovely, Lasting Lines :D) with all the stock parts and pegs, and tank, and a bad rattle can job, OVER EVERYTHING! Is the speedo and tach sprayed black as well? Why the pipes. Chrome would have looked much better IMHO.

How about the rear grab bar than now looks like...Sorta seems like a kid in grade school got ahold of some paint from the friends dads garage and douched his bike, tires and all.

Not a bik fan of the rats that have bones and bits/pieces of who knows what hanging off of them but thats just me.

Firts thing I want to do when I see a bike painted like that is to grab a rag and some thinner and see IF I can get the overspray off of EVERYTHING. :o
 
My .02.

Theres nothing wrong with a rat bike. Just understand that a well done rat bike was done by someone who took stuff apart, carefully painted it and reassembled it. Its a style of bike.

You spent a half hour doing this mess..

Its not a rat bike, its an amateur attempt at a rat bike, and a poor one at that.
 
Does it run good?
Okay, that's all that matters.
Because that's what is going to get you home every day.

I kind of like it, partially because im a sucker for anything painted Black.

Yeah, it's a cheap job.....but you didn't try to hide it!

Im TIRED of seeing shiny bright paint jobs that shout "attention whore" or "look at me with me with my $1000 paint job!"

Who gives a ****!?

NOBODY says your bike has too look a certain way, or be shiny.
That's why it's YOUR BIKE! You can do what you want with it.

I was never a fan of the cheap spray-paint faded black look.....
I would rather see a slightly Grey fade or primer grey look to it.

You should buy some expensive spray cans, and put a decent looking black coat on there.

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Don't get me wrong, I plan on putting a little money into my paint job coming up soon, but I was really thinking about doing a spray-can job, just so I can change colors or designs whenever I want....I'm an artist and I can do some pretty tricky stuff with expensive spray cans.

When I sold my mustang, the buyer was being a nit-picky *******, complaining about seriously stupid and small stuff.
Well he stared at the front of the car only 100 times and NEVER noticed that the front bumper was re-painted......and I did it with spray paint and a couple clear coats.....he never noticed! Haha.
 
1_v8_merc said:
Does it run good?
Okay, that's all that matters.
Because that's what is going to get you home every day.

I kind of like it, partially because im a sucker for anything painted Black.

Yeah, it's a cheap job.....but you didn't try to hide it!

Im TIRED of seeing shiny bright paint jobs that shout "attention whore" or "look at me with me with my $1000 paint job!"

Who gives a ****!?

NOBODY says your bike has too look a certain way, or be shiny.
That's why it's YOUR BIKE! You can do what you want with it.

I was never a fan of the cheap spray-paint faded black look.....
I would rather see a slightly Grey fade or primer grey look to it.

You should buy some expensive spray cans, and put a decent looking black coat on there.

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Don't get me wrong, I plan on putting a little money into my paint job coming up soon, but I was really thinking about doing a spray-can job, just so I can change colors or designs whenever I want....I'm an artist and I can do some pretty tricky stuff with expensive spray cans.

When I sold my mustang, the buyer was being a nit-picky *******, complaining about seriously stupid and small stuff.
Well he stared at the front of the car only 100 times and NEVER noticed that the front bumper was re-painted......and I did it with spray paint and a couple clear coats.....he never noticed! Haha.
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looking forward to seeing YOUR rattle can paint job :cool:
 
Nothing wrong with rat bikes or rattle cans. Just no fur. Have a little respect for the bike. Would it embarass u?
 
Mine embarasses me every morning when it pukes blue smoke down the street warming up, maybe I will threaten it with a leopard print seat cover...
 
donimo said:
Mine embarasses me every morning when it pukes blue smoke down the street warming up, maybe I will threaten it with a leopard print seat cover...
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Hey there,
Let's leave the leopard print out of this, it can look good on the right bike.
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I think the flat paint is cool. Mine is flat black. And to add flair I painted the engine gloss black and red. And I plan to paint the wheels red.
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"Go ahead,tell me what ya thnk. I'm asking for it" Well me i actually LIKE flat black on some things. I think i wouldnt have sprayed the engine though.. You can easily remove the rattle can from the engine by getting a spray bottle full of brake fluid and spraying it down and power washing it after about 10 minutes or so..repeat till shes cleaned off.. AND if you ask for an opinion around here your gonna get the unsweetened, cut throat, no bull crap truth..so you asked for it, so you will get it.
 
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