Project NSR

The NSR came to me dressed like it had hurriedly jumped into the first thing it could find on the factory floor. The bike was supposed to be a Red white blue but had the forward fairing from a blue white red bike, a fiberglass mudguard and what bodywork it had was tatty. The bike was in need of a respray which left me the tough choice of "which colour?". After much procrastinating  I chose to stick with the Blue white red. This would require the wheels to be powder coated white to match but as per the rest of the bike they were in need of something regardless. Fairings I had been offered a good price on a respray but it was on the condition the shop was quiet to do the work and this was very slow coming. In the mean time I managed to get a full fairing set from xx-moto for just £350 sprayed in the factory blue white red. This wasn't something they originally offered but on describing what I wanted they were very helpful, sending photographs as things were ...

You know when you can't see something but you know it's there and you know its not quite right? Well that's how I felt about my NSR's subframes. They were far from ghastly but they were spotted with corrosion from where wiring looms had rubbed and heavy handed toolmanship had chipped away at the old paint. So having raided Halfords for some paints I took all of the subframes off of the bike. I have seen and liked the Tyga clock stay and front fairing subframe but I still decided to spray the originals. I have seen a forum post where someone managed to snap their Tyga clock stay during disassemble (sorry couldn't find a link), putting me off that a little and for the time being it was worth tidying up the original parts whilst I already had the paints out. The first job was to remove all of the corrosion and old paint. This I achieved with a couple of wire brush bits on the end of my drill and smoothed off with some wet and dry. With all of the parts off and ...