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Here is the finished paintwork, mounted on the bike. The 2K clearcoat looks great. This is without any buffing or polishing either. The only thing that remains is to put all the wires into the headlight bucket, fill with gas and oil and fire it up. Then get some brake lines made to that I can...

Yeah, it started as an 1983 Virago XV500, and yes, I did all the work. The build is on my blog, and there is a recap thread on here. - http://www.gtamotorcycle.com/vbforum/showthread.php?193110-Custom-1983-XV500-Build-recap

i dont have the virago any more. i have the sv now

yes, that is how it is at the Pickering store as well (to my knowledge anyway). for paint, they wont mix anything for you unless you pay first. however for these other clear coat types, since its a simple stock item, the guy told me he just has to order more, and its a 1-2 day lead time to get...

you can buy it at any NAPA that has the paint store (CMax). The options for locally in toronto are Zero. The only two NAPAs in the GTA that have a paint store are in Pickering or in Brampton. I bought them from the Pickering location. $24.99 a can. They keep the high gloss clear in stock and...

ahhhhh. nice. well, that solves that eh? thanks guys!

@hedo: hahaha thats a good rule of thumb. how does that mesh with the other useful rule - "its better to beg for forgiveness than ask permission"? but yeah, i think there is consensus here that it is not legal to do this. The penalty looks like it is heavily dependent on the cop's discretion...

So, I don't know if its possible to thread-jack my own thread, but I am going to go waaaaaay off tangent here. I ended up selling my XV500 bike (it was my primary bike) to a young guy from Newmarket. Super nice dude. Happy to see the bike go to someone who is so stoked about it. He came to...

Here is the tank and side covers with 2 coats of 2K clear on it. Because the colour coat has a lot of flake in it, it was a little more rough than a typical straight colour coat. That means that the first coats of clear will be more 'orange-peely' than usual. I used 1000grit to wetsand down the...

So this is what I am going to use for clear coat. It is a SprayMax 2K Clear in Glamour High Gloss. As the name suggests, it is a 2 component clear, and you need to mix the hardener in to activate it. There is a red cap on top of main cap, and you use that to pop an internal membrane from the...

yeah, thats pretty much what i thought. better safe than sorry. I didnt end up riding it today, mainly because I don't want to take the risk. thanks guys!

So here is my question. I just bought a bike. I have insurance for it already, I have a safety cert for it, plates and valid sticker off my old bike, and I have the signed over ownership with my sig on it. I want to know if I can ride that bike now. Not forever, but just around the block...

i bought a kit from KBS when I built my gas tank (also used a buzzbox for it). IIRC it was 80$ or so for the kit. I would totally use it again. it is a 3 part kit. first part is the degreaser/cleaner, second is an acid etch, and third is the epoxy sealer. if you followed their directions to a...

yeah. i grabbed some on my lunch break today. $25 a can at the Pickering location (which was easiest to get to from my work). I got 4 cans. i expect 3 cans to do the tank and side covers with a huge thick layer of gloss, and one can for emergencies just in case. according to the label it has...

if you say 'supercharger' i can use that as an excuse to run it by my wife.... its what the people want.... but seriously, its so close to being done that I don't even want to mess with it any more. Im gonna wire it up, then lay the clear on this weekend, then it should be ready to fire. After...

you know it bud. thats the exact stuff im gonna be buying this week. and lots of it. I wanna get a really deep gloss to get that flake popping.

okay. i don't mind paying for the additional risk of riding, i get that. I just don't understand why in a household of 2 riders (my wife and I) and 3 bikes why the additional premium for a 3rd,4th,5th,whatever bike is just as much as if I were to go out and get a new policy for it independently...

thanks for the info akabek and carlos vincent so youre saying that there is no way to add it to a multi-bike policy without paying 'full-freight' for it anyway? If it costs an extra 500 a year, i'm okay with that. the distinction is that its old, not necessarily collectible (one man's trash...

First up, laying a few coats of white so that the red can pop a bit more than if it were just on top of the primer. Tafetta white, which is a Honda Fit colour (because I love Hondas, and Fits). That white looks so good though right? I wish I could leave it like this..... Next up...

So I'm starting on the final pieces of the bike: The tins (even though the side covers are plastic). As the old grade-school rhyme goes, fist comes primer, then comes base coat, then comes then comes clear coat in a baby carriage. ... wait, that can't be right. The underside of the tank is...