My new paintwork

Yeah, thanks mate, sunshine makes a big difference. Hopefully tomorrow I will get a visit from some FBR helpers ???

Looking forward to tomorrows pictures.

Cheers mate, me too, if I can get some help gettin bike outta garage, it will be first time since November 12th. Battery is knackered, so I can't start it!

Woah, looks excellent MW, much prefer that colour to the blue... good choice matey

Thanks Bill, Mayday meet lookin more likely!

megawatt wrote:Thanks Bill, Mayday meet lookin more likely!

That's great news, fish'n'chips on the beach, then back to Rye to that carpark next to the harbour for a coffee, then a quick blat round the corner to that fish place for half a pint of prawns!

Blades and grub... yeh baby

Well , had a fun filled day in the garage cleaning most of the crap paint off my calipers so I can paint em again.
Anyway ,my mate Hamish turned up at 1300, to help me reattatch my guttering and take some pix of the bike. Couldn't get the bike into the sun as currently a dead battery and no brakes! So we just put the tank and the fairing in the sun! Pix to follow.





Look better in the flesh, 'onest!

Yep looks better in the sun, you can see the flecks popping out in the paint, nice!

How big is the headlight, it looks huge next to the tank!

Fairing is 15" x 9", Tank is 20" wide by 26" long mate.

megawatt wrote:Fairing is 15" x 9", Tank is 20" wide by 26" long mate.

Not that big then, must look big because it's closest to the camera!

It does doesn't it. lookat the other pix, on the bike? More in proportion.

megawatt wrote:It does doesn't it. lookat the other pix, on the bike? More in proportion.

Oh yeah just had a look, it looks fine on the bike mate

great colour , i would leave it plain until you got more of the bike back together, then you can see what lines, decals and other colours you might want to add if any ??? awesome looking bike mate

Cheers mate, ditto.

Looks great.

dj1 wrote:great colour , i would leave it plain until you got more of the bike back together, then you can see what lines, decals and other colours you might want to add if any ??? awesome looking bike mate

Good advice!

Gonna do exactly that gents. Also paint bars , cover turquoise shock spring and satin black calipers

megawatt wrote:Well , had a fun filled day in the garage cleaning most of the crap paint off my calipers so I can paint em again.
Anyway ,my mate Hamish turned up at 1300, to help me reattatch my guttering and take some pix of the bike. Couldn't get the bike into the sun as currently a dead battery and no brakes! So we just put the tank and the fairing in the sun! Pix to follow.





Look better in the flesh, 'onest!

Looks awsome mate, I think that finish is stunning. I've been thinking about the decals with that paint job and I would go with a "Dark Matter" type thing matey.

Now I just want to see it finished, coz I'm not very good at being patient.

Dark Matter? sounds interestin, what's that? Piccies please? Was workin on it today , but I had to stop to take some pix of my radguard? They are there now mate. Got to make new fairing brackets to fit the standard Blade clocks in, can't afford Vaypor or Acewell yet. Going to Engineering works tomorrow mate for some stainless. Do you want anythin?

Some scientist added up the mass of the observed galaxies and equated the amount of matter therein, and it didnt quite add up mate, he discovered that for the scales to ballence there had to be something more. After further investivation he discovered what he called "DARK MATTER"

WELL YOU ASKED ALAN!

How can we be certain of the existence of dark matter when none of our instruments can detect it? First of all, scientists are not certain it exists. dark matter is one of the few theories that is being used to explain the problem of "missing mass" in observed galaxies. It might be worth noting that mass is not weight in the way we usually describe it here on Earth. Mass is the quantity of matter an objects consists of. Weight is the effect gravity has on it. Also, "missing mass" is not a very accurate description of dark matter, as whatever is causing the effects on nearby objects is there - we just can't see it! Since, by nature, dark matter is not detectable with conventional technology due to it's inability to emit radiation or light , astronomers look at the behaviour of objects near the dark matter.

One of the first "observations" of dark matter was done by Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astrophysicist. In 1933 Zwicky was studying the motions of faraway galaxies. At first Zwicky estimated the mass of the observed galaxies by measuring their brightness. He then used a different computation method to determine the mass. To his surprise the result was 400 times larger than his initial method. Sadly, Zwicky's research results were not used until the 70's of the 20th century - losing decades of potential research in this field. Scientists realized that Zwicky's observations could explain some of their own. Today , dark matter is being taken seriously.

Astronomers now believe that over 20% of our universe is made up of what we call "dark matter", and another 73% of dark energy. Oh and the stuff we are familiar with and can actually look at only takes up 4% of the universe. Our universe is dominated by dark matter and dark energy, whatever they may be. You can imagine that there is still plenty of work left for scientists in unraveling the secrets of the universe. Established theories will have to be modified and new theories will be introduced to take into account all of the unknown matter out there.

Recently (2006) British researchers from the University of Cambridge made some interesting discoveries. Their calculations show that dark matter particles are moving at an amazing speed of 9 kilometers per second. That is 540 kilometers per minute, or 32400 km per hour, a lot faster than previously thought. The researchers have also been able to determine the temperate of dark matter, 10,000 °C. Not exactly the
hottest stuff out there, but perhaps enough to reconsider the name "cold dark matter" used by some scientists.

Photo of Dark matter.....
















Dark, init!

Yeah , but how do I get it onto my paintwork? Don't answer that, I'll get Mr Spock.

GOOOOOODNESS ME ALAN, its already in your paint mate. Its the dark stuff between the twinkly bits.

The "Dark" stuff that dont "Matter"

"Dark Matter"

SEE ???!!!

Sheeeeeesh, your a nice bloke Alan, but a bit on the slow side fella. Never mind son, stick with me and I'll teach you all I know mate. Next week we will look at why the air inside your tyres is bigger and harder than the stuff on the outside, so your tyres stay up.

Sorry I can't keep up mate, I can only do Nuclear. Have you got an ology? Are you a scientist?

CBRRRT wrote:

Looks awsome mate, I think that finish is stunning. I've been thinking about the decals with that paint job and I would go with a "Dark Matter" type thing matey.

Now I just want to see it finished, coz I'm not very good at being patient.

megawatt wrote:Dark Matter? sounds interestin,

CBRRRT wrote:......... After further investivation he discovered what he called "DARK MATTER"

CBRRRT wrote: Today , dark matter is being taken seriously.

The researchers have also been able to determine the temperate of dark matter, 10,000 °C. Not exactly the
hottest stuff out there, but perhaps enough to reconsider the name "cold dark matter" used by some scientists.

megawatt wrote:Sorry I can't keep up mate, I can only do Nuclear. Have you got an ology? Are you a scientist?

I think you're both veering into another dimension......I'm afraid that I am forced to go against the grain here, going completely against what's ingrained in my natural psychy, but I think you need to use some 'Red matter' on the bike Al, not dark matter - you allready have enough of that. Hell - you could even use 'Red hot matter' , or a nice 'Dark red hot matter' ?? A dark red like on Griz's build, used here and there could well look really good. It's also light years ahead of dark matter I'm reliably informed (by a drunken Scotsman) I'm not so sure on that one though.

Off to see the shrink

Well as with all of these matters, I think it doesn't really matter what matter you use just as long as your happy with the end result, thats all that matters!

fastbikefinder wrote:

griz wrote:Well as with all of these matters, I think it doesn't really matter what matter you use just as long as your happy with the end result, thats all that matters!

She don't look bovered to me!

Just got home from work, a mate has just bought a streetfighter top yoke for his R1 front end and it came with a pair of 820mm silver alloy ABM bars. He don't want em and they're now mine for a tenner. Result, coz they look right and being longer I can now fit some decent mirrors instead of the tiny Oberon bar enders. These are for sale by the way?