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Fork colours
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:37 pm
by Damien420
Hi all,
My nc30 has dark grey (Gun metal) coloured forks, iv seen colour combos like silver forks with gold calipers and disks, black forks with black discs and dark coloured calipers etc in the section about colour codes but havnt seen any mention of gun metal grey. Iv seen plenty of pics with the gun metal though on the Internet.
Was this a factory colour and if so anyone know the code and secondly any one know the actual colour for the calipers?
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:29 am
by dgunthor
i think all the forks were silver from the factory. i got mine powdercoated black so the brake dust was less obvious, maybe that's why they've been coloured gunmetal?
think the standard colour for calipers were gold also.
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 4:24 pm
by Neosophist
89 bikes had gold calipers, later bieks had black / grey type calipers
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:50 am
by Damien420
Thanks guys,
painted forks etc on friday so as its raining here im off out i to garage to refit.
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:42 am
by williamshatnerspants
Not all forks were silver.
http://www.vsource.org/VFR-RVF_files/Br ... 991-1a.jpg
http://s254.photobucket.com/user/yakama ... 1.jpg.html
black and silver, and I thought gun metal was std too but now I am doubting myself
;o)
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:11 am
by richyrd5
Werent uk ones black??
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:13 pm
by hunter
UK forks were silver,
Imports were a very simular colour to the engine just a bit darker.
UK calipers were i think anodised black not paint.
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 3:38 pm
by RickOliver
All UK NC30s and 1989 Japanese `K` models had Silver fork sliders (NH236M Sparklefrost Silver Metallic), all later J-spec bikes had sliders of that slightly bronze tinted gunmetal grey colour (YR147 Max Brown Metallic).
All UK-spec NC30s had black calipers, Japanese `K` models had gold calipers, from the `L` model on they were black except for the very last (Type 8) red/white/blue model which went back to gold.
Rick
Re: Fork colours
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:08 pm
by richyrd5
ah,i knew something was black on the front of uk ones!!cheers rick(a mine of info as usual!!)
