Almost there now

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Well after much procrastination I finally put together a design which, in my opinion, looks fairly decent (at least I’m hoping it will translate). As it turns out, I procrastinated just the right amount of time as they only got the plastics yesterday.
Spray Design
The design is only red to make it easier to see when printed out; the bike will be sprayed black with the design in a silver colour. I’m considering getting the windshield sprayed black as well, and then printing out a complex design to stick on there, or maybe I will just do that myself at a later date.

My plastics right now are very much white, and very much in 1 piece; they appear to be well made, or at least they look good. Hopefully pieces won’t start breaking off when I go above the speed limit. All the separate pieces have been joined, so where my fairing used to be 9 pieces at the front, it is now 2, a full upper, and a full lower, I’m guessing the tail section is still the same since it didn’t get damaged too much. I have no idea how I’m going to remove these if I ever decide I need to — and I will need to remove them when I fit my frame sliders… egh, I really don’t want to have to buy more stands.

I think they’re still waiting for parts too, which is a bit unfortunate; I’ll find that out later.

And… my lovely helmet didn’t fit properly, the small had too much movement, and the extra small was tight enough (maybe a bit too tight), but my nose touched the chin bar… nothnx. So now I’ve ordered an even *more* expensive helmet, this time an Arai Astro/R Tattoo Red. If this one fits me properly I’ll be forking out quite a hefty sum of money, and I still have to purchase a second visor (not cheap either). Ah well, the more protection the better I guess, as I’ll probably start going to the track soon.

Next of course is the 2 pc racing suit, going to have to save for another few months before I can afford that. Seeing as I’m spending the money I had saved for the suit on all my bills *yay*.

update:
Helmet arrives on Friday, dark visors in stock yay. It’s the correct helmet, so if it fits I’ll have a nice new helmet.
Sprayjob is gonna cost a lot extra, trying to see if they can offset the cost of the sprayjob against the reduction in price seeing as I don’t need the decals; hopefully they’ll do this and I can just pick up the difference. Otherwise the sprayjob is gonna take another week and a half, so ya, not getting my bike this week, and seriously doubtful that I will get it next week. At least I save on petrol this way… I definately need to cut costs wherever I can right now, and petrol is about the only expense that I can save on right now because I already spend hardly any money (meds, etc.).

Posted by Gavin   @   14 September 2005

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Sep 15, 2005
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#1 Nick :

Hey Gav, that design looks pretty tight! Should be “off da chaynz” so they say :p

Sep 15, 2005
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#2 Marlon :

I second that. Since Im also in your vicinity, I would like to actually this job when it’s done.
Thanks for letting me know you had a web journal, I could have linked ages ago.

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