Playing around with a Basic paint scheme

[Woodsy]

You mean like this? I'm gonna be off the bike for a little bit with a foot injury. So i've started sanding a spare mud guard i have to prepare it for some paint, i'm undecided on what colour to paint it now!

[SVSooke]

Hey Woodsy ask my wife how many colours schemes she heard before I decided on straight red.

[Woodsy]

I have also thought about spraying it straight silver with red Suzuki stickers on the Tank, but alot of suzukis have that.

[pete]

Hey Woodsy ask my wife how many colours schemes she heard before I decided on straight red.

Just don't ask her what colour she thinks it should be

[SVSooke]

That was not going to happen

[pete]

You mean like this? I'm gonna be off the bike for a little bit with a foot injury. So i've started sanding a spare mud guard i have to prepare it for some paint, i'm undecided on what colour to paint it now!

I missed this earlier... foot injury? Did you try to adjust your chain with a toe this time?

[Woodsy]

No lol, i hurt it at the gym.

[pete]

Aaaah I see... well they say no pain no gain.

But having said that, I hurt my thumb but my alternator rotor's still on the crankshaft, so how does that work?

[Woodsy]

Well i got bored so i layed some paint onto the spare mudguard yesterday, Just a cheap red spray can i had in the garage and i gotta admit the red looks good, i dont know if i would bother with doing the white line down the centre of the front mudguard? But i think it will look out of place if i dont?

I was going to buy some good quality paint in spray cans but it will probably be cheaper for me to buy the paint in a tin and use my compressor to spray it.

I dont know why but i think the solid red makes the bike look abit younger than it actually is, even if i have only sprayed the front mudguard.

[pete]

Need to see evidence before I can comment

[Woodsy]

i only used aussie export paint on the mudguard, its not good enough to use on the bike permanently i just wanted to see what it looked like, i'll sand it off. i've never sprayed with the compressor before so it will be good to get some practice in.

[old_chopper]

Spray the entire thing white first, then mask off what you want to keep white and spray the red. Red covers the white easier than white covering red.
By the way I painted the tank on my XS11 over the holiday the same colors!

[pete]

Spray the entire thing white first, then mask off what you want to keep white and spray the red. Red covers the white easier than white covering red.
By the way I painted the tank on my XS11 over the holiday the same colors!

Nice job!

That's the technique I figured I'd have to use when I get around to doing mine which I plan on a deep blue with a pearl white stripe or two. Undecided on the stripe style at the moment.

Woodsy, shoulda left it on long enough to show us a pic of it sitting there to see how it looks...

[ddaniels]

Can't say I'm a fan of that powder blue, but that's just me. Personally, I'd prefer something with red on a motorcycle. But even different shade of blue would be nice. Just not that powder blue. Yuck. (sorry)

[Woodsy]

I could be different and go a bright orange with the white line?...