Anyone have a green bike?

[Guest]

My clear coat is very milky and my side stickers are in bad shape. Was thinking something like a British Racing Green for the new color. Anyone have a GS in green? It all looks good in my head......

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[Rob S.]

You could get sued by Kawasaki.

[scottyknows50]

You could get sued by Kawasaki.

I hope mine would not be confused with Kawasaki's green. Maybe Triumph.

More current pic-
Daytona bars and lower shocks

[scottyknows50]

Like this guy:

[GS1150Pilot]

I have a camo green plastidip on my 1150 right now. In time, when money becomes available for cosmetics, it will get repainted along the lines of the original 1150ES bodywork when in red and white, but with green replacing the red, pearl white replacing the stark white, and gold wheels.

[Steve]

Click on the link in my sig for #1 son's 650L, "Rat Bagger".

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[sinkankan]

Say what!

Are you mad, no seriously who would paint a bike green.
Just joking, done properly it would look like a Triumph.
I saw a late model Honda Bol Dor done in British racing green and it didn't look too bad. Apparently he had it shipped from Hong Kong to Aussie and it had the tank crushed during shipment, and the insurance paid for another respray as well, so he did in the darkest green with a little metallic spek in it.

[Battleship62]

Green

You could get sued by Kawasaki.

A guy told me a while back that most Kawasaki's are painted green so they can hide in the grass better when a Suzuki goes by.

[Rover]

The GS550 had a factory green tank first year of production 77 or 78.

[sinkankan]

Beemers

Post 1960 BMW bikes that were green had a magnetized rear axle,
To pick up the parts that fell off!

[Chuck78]

Are you superstitious?

I was warned that green is bad luck on a motorcycle. Well, now my green gas tank has a huge true "knee dent" on the side of my tank that I plowed the deer on. It's head and shoulder took out my headlight/turn sig/speedo, and it's body slammed my knee into the gas tank very hard - breaking off my #1 plug boot and bending the spark plug also... Not to mention compressing my stator cover gasket enough to cause a constant drip

Superstitious? Probably just the odds catching up to me, but thought I'd throw that out there

I do really like the dark jade green metallic that was on my original tank, but I have a nice factory black tank awaiting install after a little internal rust treatment.

[Chuck78]

[eddie21]

I was warned that green is bad luck on a motorcycle.

Ha ha, that is exactly the reason why Kawasaki went to the garish green of their racing bikes. Apparently, the curse is the reason that the Kawasaki race bikes were painted green. The engineers wanted to prove that their designs were superior to any supposed curse. They chose the lime green since it was the most green in their opinion. However, the green was still bad luck... but only if you rode a Honda, Yamaha, or Suzuki!

[slayer61]

Green IS bad luck... my ELR was stolen, never to be seen again

[Chuck78]

I'd better stick with black then... Now if I could figure a way to get those factory powder blue/sky blue/gold stripes off the tank - thry appear to be decals with clearcoat over them. Delicate removal.

I especially am looking to ditch the bad luck after I go through another round of upgrades this year, putting on a set of vintage piggyback Fox Factory Shox as I see Slayer has on his (NICE, Slayer!), as well as an NOS MTC Engineering 920cc gs750/850 piston kit, and custom fit smaller gs400 individual chrome pod gauges