super quality

the vin number is still visible, as it is stamped I guess it just sinks in,
someone asked earlier whether it is painted or powder coated, its powder coat and cost me £40 and I had to get it shot blasted first another £30. as far as colour is concerned I think there is allot available

Thats really reasonable price. Thanks for that information . Time soon to get stripped of everything . Cant wait to get started if it looks that good.:D:)

A set of big drum brakes would look nice with that!

Keefer - did you need any special tools when stripping it?
And roughly how many hours would you say it took?

Was looking at getting my frame painted, but that's a real eye-opener!

Could the powder coat also be applied to the headlight bucket, do you think? (not sure what it's made of)

Also - as I'm guessing that from my VERY LIMITED experience, powder coat is thicker than paint - does this mean there might be any issue's with bolt's not quite fitting through they're holes in the frame?

Also - and this might sound like a VERY silly question - will the powder coat be upto handling the heat generated from the engine/exhausts?

no didn't need any special tool but I wouldn't recommend you get started unless you have a fair selection, hours wise hard to say really I spent a couple of evenings getting the bike ready to remove the engine.
So fairing, tank, exhausts, injectors, rads oil and water, rear subfraime, headlight and clocks then unplug the wiring marking up anything you think you may forget as you go along. I also took lots of digital picks of where the wiring is cable tied to the frame so as to get it correct on replacement.
I then got a friend to come round to help me remove the engine. [put some wd40 on the bolts the night before]
then its forks head stock and then swingarm out and that plus or minus a few bit and bobs is about it. That took me a couple of nights and a Saturday afternoon.
yes you could get the headlight bucket done im just about to get the yokes done as I had them anodized but it looked crap.
and finally if the place you take it to knows what they are doing then they should cover up the holes that take bolts in them with bits of rubber.
And no heat wont effect it, it's baked off in a oven and very tough.

[Edited on 27-10-2004 by keefer]

[Edited on 27-10-2004 by keefer]