400 Hondas, or Honda 400s?!

Honda 400's but the girlfriend would have everybody believe it's 400 Honda's, when it's only 32 in reality

finally...my bike...after restoration process..
take 2 years to complete this project.
the most hard to find is the fairing set, bracket, headlight, and stay bracket.

thanks LP for her free consultation hours..

zul_cbr wrote:





finally...my bike...after restoration process..
take 2 years to complete this project.
the most hard to find is the fairing set, bracket, headlight, and stay bracket.

thanks LP for her free consultation hours..

Is this same bike that before had R1 fairing ?

PARUS wrote:

zul_cbr wrote:





finally...my bike...after restoration process..
take 2 years to complete this project.
the most hard to find is the fairing set, bracket, headlight, and stay bracket.

thanks LP for her free consultation hours..

Is this same bike that before had R1 fairing ?

You've got that PARUS.

Now i appreciate the good original looks so much.

BTW, hope u are doing ok with your k-conversion kit mate!!

As for me not bad work

K-Conversion fitted. One the thing I miss of honda fairing this is glove compartment at the tail part. This is disadvantages of K-Conversions really.

From that angle Parus the tail piece looks like it is moulded from a TL1000S

Here is my nc23 :D
coming off the road in winter to get things done to it
i.e. Re-sprayed, Powder coat wheels, Either polish or powdercoat frame and swing arm.
it hasn't got this can on it anymore its got an mtc can which i chopped down to 8 and half inch and sounds awesome

Also going to be lookin at putting a Garret GT-12 turbo on it over winter

As Im not busy I thought I would post a picture of my rattle can re painted bike fairings (Tank to be done), its not finished as Im still waiting for some graphics for the front and tail that I was not happy with. The aim was to get as close to a type 7 as possible, as that's what my bike actually is, but with a type 5 paint job.

I never painted anything bigger than a small airfix kit so this as a bit of a challenge, not knowing anything about spray paint. I only really decided to do this because I knocked my bike over in the garden and cracked the offside belly fairing and going to BSB and a classic bike show got me thinking. Rubbing the fairings bullet proof paint and clear coat down with wet & dry seemed to take forever, how it ever scratched in the first place I will never know.. I now have tennis elbow. I also found out my previous design was actually paint and not stickers, a bit of a shock as it looked so close to the original, the only stickers were CBR, Direct Air Intake and the 400 CBR bit on the tail..

I bought some primer from ebay, not the best but was actually better than the Halfords stuff I bought later, wish I had bought the high build stuff. A few cans of Ross White mixed paint from RS paints and finally some Upol Clear coat #1 from Paints4u. For my tank I have bought some 2k clear in a can by Spraymax, dont know what to expect there as far as petrol resistance goes but I will find out. I learnt a lot and wish i could start again as Im sure my painting would be 100% better, even though it still looks ok now.

Decals are by Imageworks but apart from the ones Im waiting for the mid section were extensively reworked by me with a scalpel as they were not as close to the Urban Tiger design as I would have liked, look at the Haynes manual which is close to imageworks graphics sent out and a OEM picture to see where I have made changes where I could.

Finally i added lots of stainless steel/titanium at key points, a new rear brake hose and generally tided the bike up.

Edit: I should add the cost was £109 for the laminated graphics and somewhere around £120 for paint and materials (I think I paid the wages to my local Halfords buying never ending amounts of wet & dry)

Picture taken in the scenic works car park. I will attempt to get it upto the moors for a picture more fitting once the graphics are in place.



dave

So everything in that photo, apart from the tank, is rattle-can paint?