Re painted bikes

Just a vent really. I was surfing CL and looking at the usual suspects. I understand repainting older bikes (not really the outlandishly loud colors but...), but what is the deal with repainting sport bikes hideous colors and saying the bike is modified? Maybe I'm old school? When I rode my crotch rockets, they stayed the stock colors, were very clean and were modified....head, engine, carbs, exhaust, brakes, wheels and one or two of the factory stickers would be removed. A sleeper if you will...low profile with a very mean attitude.

I just don't get the whole loud obnoxious color schemes on some stock bikes today. It appears that tasteful upgrades are few and far between, and that knowing how to ride a bike has been replaced with going fast in a straight line on a hideously painted bike.

 

I don't know about the rest of you, but when I see a bike for sale that has a "Custom Paint Job!" the message that I read is:

"I crashed the daylights out of it, and after some bondo, and bribing my buddy at the paint shop with some beer, it looks good enough to sell."

 

I agree with chico. Same thoughts when i see one of those warlocks

 

I dunno, those street bikes seem to have pretty rough lives. I've often wondered why a 2003 with "custom paint" would be selling for $2,000, when a similar vintage cruiser in good condition might go for $3,000+. I always figured that most of those bikes just get thrashed by people with too much time and not enough common sense.

 

what that means is they rode the piss out of it, probably dropped it a few times attempting some sick wheelies. now that its in crappy shape they buy a cheap set of race fairings off ebay so they can talk up the "totally custom sick look" and downplaying how it needs a ton of work. drives me insane when people talk up their bikes saying something is "sikk" "trick" "cuzztom" or has new "ferrings" and how its so fast itll drive your eyes into your balls then don't even list what year it is.

 

Well it could also mean a few guys were sitting around a bong telling some moron how cool his gixxer would look with lime green and neon red paint with a hot pink frame. The moron with the gixxer starts seeing the bike through everyone else' baked eyeballs and starts seeing the vision of a psychadellic bandit on 2 wheels rescuing babies from burning buildings and causing all of the hotties clothes to drop off of their bodies.
@ weeks later, they are all still too stoned to admit it was a retarded and rediculous idea to begin with and the moron goes with the scheme in hopes to outcool his buddies.
Well... after the vision doesn't pan out, the scheme not making his bike any faster, and the hot pink not really meshing with what the ladies consider a manly motorcycle look but definitely something they'd ride if it wasn't for the lame bright loud green and obscene neon red, he sells the bike for lack of dough to at least have it repainted and gain a little face back.

Probably never really the case but it might as well be. Those loud paint jobs are just irritating.

 

Chuckles - talking of hot pink check this XJ600 out.


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1990-YAMAHA-XJ-60 ... 3a57896b81

 

Let us not forget how awesome it might look with some blue or yellow faux fur plastered all over the fairings

 

Hey hey hey now. I repainted my bike cause it was dropped and (though I do not like the side panels) I really think that my tank and fenders were done quite tastefully
Flat black with rasta stripes and chromed edges.
I think she looks rather nice
this years paint scheme, Sage or Forest green with gold stripes
-Chris

 

Take this!

 

That one is actually bad asssss. And even if it was hot pink... there is pretty much nothing you can do wrong with a bobber. Haha. The bobber kinda just has the attitude that if you make fun of it or anything about it you might get your arse kicked in pretty good. But seriously, That is actually a cool paint job.

 

Thanks!

 

I "rode" (and I use the term loosely) with a group of "guys" (another term I use loosely!!) not so long ago who all bought really nice, new and very fast (even before the mods began) sport bikes, I was hesitant to go for the ride because of all there storys and I'm not an overly fast rider I just love to ride and don't really care who is or istn't impressed. There idea of riding was 20 minutes of riding followed by 2 hours of being parked talking about how cool they were and how cool and fast there bikes are!! I do know some real riders that preffer sport bikes but I think that most of these bikes are an all show, no go riding mentality and likely not as bagged as you think, but all these stories add up as well as the popularity of this style of bike with a younger crowd that doesn't have the money to pay top dollar drives the prices down on good bikes.

 

...dude. seriously? i could slap you in the mouth. i thought you were from wisconsin like me! when i see that paint all i think of is DIPPY DAI DOOO!!!!!!

 

I'd much rather see something that's been painted in a radical color or chopped/bobbed into some radical looking design and the guy actually rides on a daily bases - then those over priced, so called "custom" designs that hurt just to look at them and only end up sitting in showrooms and going to bike shows to win trophies. I don't see any of those on the bike runs.
Chop, bob and paint it what ever you choose to, you're the one who has to be seen on it and ride it. Atleast you ride.

 

I know the owner of the XJ600 (pink)

really because she is on the xj owners club!!!!

 

Well... SHE has a very bad ass bike for sure! I can definitely see a woman rocking the hot pink Seca and would encourage it for sure! If I saw one for sale... I'd buy it. Might even ride it til I got around to painting it. But it's actually a sweet bike.

 

Yeah... I think that bike and its paint is sweet as hell. I wouldn't change a thing about it and would rock the hell out of that bike every day for as many miles as my ass cheeks could handle.
And I live in wisconsin. Originally from California, but believe me... I am not one of these no life wisconsin boorish slobs who wants everything painted in green and gold, with a packers plate and harley davidson stickers on everything I own.... whether or not I even ride a bike, let alone own a harley.

To me, Wisconsin is the poster child for what has become typical about America. There is more to life than beer, Harley decals, Badgers bumper stickers, green bay packers, and loud pick-up truck that have had the exhausts butchered with no other performance mods to make up for the huge loss in back-pressure.
Cows stink, I hate snow, can't stand the cold, like the packers but loath the "fans" (and by that I mean the morons who pretend to like football to fit in with their other moron cronies who are doing exactly the same thing) for no other reason than to show how wisconsin they are. Tommy Thompson was the biggest piece of fat trash to ever live in this state, let alone run it, its full of wannabe yuppies, idiot drivers, fast food joints and dead end bars, barely anything decent to ride on, and Lake Geneva and the Dells might as well be part of Illinois.
I just live here and I really think Lou's Bike is bad ass... paint and all.
To clarify something... If you are from Wisconsin... this rant doesn't automatically refer to you. Any of you. But this is, by the majority of what I see here, my over-all take on wisconsin and it's people.

 

I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in on the paint side of this conversation. I and most of my friends that ride dont want to look like every one else I have ridden many different bikes and loved my rocket. I painted a deep metalic blue with gun metal wheels I loved it and it stood out it looked different and got alot of compliments like many of the bobber builders here why bob? I dont want my bike to look like every other xj here Its my bike and reflects my personality. Hope I dont get crusified over this just a thought.

 

to each their own. But the sportbike crowd (I use to be one of them, the crowd, not the ninnies that paint their bikes burnt orange) seems to think just because they paint their bike, it'll sell for more. Nothing could be further from the truth...who is going to buy a pink f3? a girl, granted, but are there that many ladies out there looking for a pink f3? Nope. Custom means paint, sure, but to someone that wants to go faster, stop faster and be able to navigate the twisties better and faster, there better be more done to it than a hideous paint scheme and some polishing done....

 

well jesus man wisconsin's changed in the 5 years since i left!