My very special paintjob & Special Rimtape [Big Post] [H

[adamck]

So im giving the Hyosung a complete overhaul!

After a putting her on the side stand on my driveway (its a little sloped)... she fell and had some minor damage to the paintwork and left clip-on.

After not being overly impressed with the last paint (paintjob was good, paint was not quite what i expected (pearl white)) i decided to go for something with a bit more sparkle!

This paint is called 'Ice Pearl White' and is from 'House of Kolor', its a little expensive but it exactly the effect i was going for!

So... whilst being sent in for a complete respray i decided to paint up some of the areas that needed it, including wheels, calipers, swingarm etc...

Also decided to pull out the vinyl cutter from the garage and get cutting some new stickers and rimtape to finish off the design.

Anyways... onto the pics!

Day i got the fairings back
https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/fairing1.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/1-28.png

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/2-25.png

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/3-22.png

Added some canuba wax and paint sealent to protect it all!

popped the nose and tank on, then loosely fitted one side to see how it would look

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/7137dbb7.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/68b077dd.jpg

Time for some stickers....
I have my own vinyl cutter machine so making stickers is something i can do myself, i can also change the designs as often as i want to this may not stay as this design for long!

(Im aware that putting japanese style kanji/flag on a Korean bike is morally wrong lol)

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/5f847ee1.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/46288d24.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/0a5a2bcc.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/62113ed0.jpg

Onto the rimtape...

This was something i wanted to do for a while but didnt get round to...
I hated the normal boring plain stripe that everyone has, then people sometimes add their manufacturer logo to get a little creative.
I think i went a little overboard... but its cool

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/th_0a732ae0.jpg <--- Video of vinyl cutter making my rimtape

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/e35b5b8d.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/1d44c281.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/7920934a.jpg

Excuse the white caliper, that was a test and its now going black!

Now all i have to do is wait for this to arrive in the post...

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/faed8676.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/eb7a91c1.jpg

So i loosely fitted some fairings on to see how she stands at the moment

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/cb828b8b.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/1fe98d0f.jpg

Need to sort out the front wheel and rimtape and a few minor things (indicators wont flash properly (led)) and give her a service and fit the new exhaust system.

Then shes good to go

And yes she's a 125
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[-Savage-]

Callipers might look good in red, and awesome job with the vinyl stickers man! The rim tape looks cool
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[mysterious_rider]

Bloody fantastic job on that!

[adamck]

Yeah they where red before, but i do have red on the tyre, rimtape and i have a red chain so i dont want to over do it with the red as i wanted it to be subtle...
I will try red and then black if all else fails!

In fact i think i have a spare rear caliper in the garage that i will try in red

Thanks for comments, been off the road for around 6 months now due to the paintshop taking ages (to be fair its an amazing job they have done and took about 18 hours solid work to paint)

And... now the guy who makes the silencers for my exhaust system has broken his wrist on a trackday so the downpipes are on hold for around 6 weeks

My last silencer was a Yoshimura Tri-oval carbon can but the downpipes where rusted through (a downpoint on these bikes) so i had enough of replacing them and thats why ive took the oem pipes off, sold the yoshi and gone for a full stainless system this time.

I did have a choice of single or twin system but for the extra £100 it was worth going for a twin system

Hope i dont miss all of the summer riding weather!!
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[potato]

I love that colour!


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[adamck]

its the closes paint i could find to the white glittery paint on the Ltd Edition CBR

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/2937062264_95b9d67520.jpg

I had pearl before which was similar to the 848 pearl but it barely reflected any light unless it was in direct sunlight and you had to look hard to see it.

This new paint blinds you as soon as any direct light hits it and the basecoat is Candy white.

Only downpoint from this paint is the price of it, the ice pearl additive and the technique's used to paint it evenly (took a while and lots of coats) is what costs the cash!

Has to be my fav paint though, kindof a classy bling instead of tacky OTT glitter paint or metal flakes (IMO of course )
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[.Bishbash.]

Lovely paint job, well done!
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[adamck]

Couple more pics of the flakes in the paint
https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/36cc5a77.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/361c2903.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/0b1378df.jpg

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g12/adamck/64498dc0.jpg

Will get much better pics when its finished and running!
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[chris-red]

You could make good money selling jazzed up rimtape on ebay, I think you should make me a set for my TDM since I gave you the idea. (Note the front wheel is 18")

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[adamck]

I dont make stickers for other really, for what they make them for in china etc... and they sell them for peanuts its really not worth the effort involved.
You can buy rimtape for a couple of quid these days (not very fancy stuff) but its possible, i cba trying to compete, if i was cutting rimtape like mine for sale i would want about £15 odd and most will argue they can get it done cheaper elsewhere, so i dont bother

Go into any good sign shop with a pic of my rimtape and im sure they will copy it for you for less than i would charge

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[mivster]

epic paint job and nice rim tape btw looks way better than my gtr

is your rear link pipe restricted if not how easy it it to change as the original one on mine is as thin as a biro so defo restricting it
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[adamck]

Hi mate. Take a look at motounion.co.uk they do stainless systems for the hyosung.
Not the cheapest systems (mine is £410) but they are the best for performance and the best looking!
The standard pipes are crap, restrictive and will rust through in no time!
Scorpion also do a full system fo about £300 (single side).
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[TimNorwich]

Wow, great work! Absolutely love that rim tape
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[P.addy]

OK, please tell me thats not a MotoUnion exhaust?

I've seen 2 bikes with the twin fitted now, both bikes have killed the actual end cans within 2000 miles.. they look all burnt, one looked like the actual exhaust had cracked in 2 and you could see some white material behind it.

They also complained it was down on power and had a horribly annoying flat spot at around 6k-7k.

Put me off buying one for my bike...totally

[adamck]

Hmm Ive seen MTC cans in the same condition tbh...
I guess its down to how well you look after them, the cans will come with some warranty from motounion i would have thought!

I havent seen any complaints on any of the Hyosung owners websites or any other website tbh?

Is there any topics on here regarding this?
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[CaNsA]

Loox good mate, but remember.....

RIM TAPE IS FOR GAYS!

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[Welshd1k]

dare i ask whats so special about the paintjob other than some glitter? my pc case has a better / shinnier finish paint job...
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[Teflon-Mike]

Nice job.
All that time, money, effort....
Shame it's all going to be rather spoiled when you put the L-Plates back on...........
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[adamck]

Its house of kolor paint, its a special fx paint that is not normal paint.
i.e its special paint...
I havent seen many bikes with a candy white base and ice pearl ontop!
So this paintjob is pretty unique.

And... im not too arsed about other peoples opinions, some will like it some wont!

I didnt buy it and have it painted this way to please others
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