A question of taste.

Assume you have a ten-year-old GoldWing, with missing paint chips on
the lhs pannier lid.

A respray seems a little over the top.

A new lid is approx £275. No, really.

Would it be beyond the bounds of reasonable taste to affix stickers of
places visited to the aforementioned lid?
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You have a Glodwing and you need to ask about reasonable taste?

;-]

By the way, I'm rubbish. I meant to ring you about free weekends and
I forglot. Email me with poss dates and I'll get onto it.

 

Just stick some gaffer tape over it and claim it's a sports bike. It's
always worked for me.

 

I know a good painter....

Velly cheap, plenty bargain (he charged me £180 for the full respray
on the Morini - tank and 2x side panels in two colours with a painted
pinstripe. And it still looks good two years later. Apart from where
some f*****r dropped something on the tank at work and chipped it,
right on the top.

 

<reaches for razor blade>

Is it across, or down?

 

In your case I would have thought it mandatory!

But be careful if you ever want them off again/they fade, etc. they
can be a bugger to get off, as the couple who cleaned up my X7 racebike
of sponsors' stickers found out!

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Don't forget some georges cross flags at random places on the Wing and
helmets.

 

*ding*

You can even get different coloured duct tape these days, but black or
solver goes with anything.

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Only owners of motorised caravans do that.

So yes.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Hairdryer works on them.
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Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

".. ten-year-old GoldWing.."

 

Sure.

Here:-

http://www.lainesworld.co.uk/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?LNG=en-US&page=L/PRO
D/AGLITTER/WES285

 

Be very, *very* careful when using a hairdryer to remove stickers. It
is possible that you could also remove some of the paint.

If this happens on say, a two month old bike, you might actually want
it repaired and it could cost you ?80 + vat. DAMHIK,IJD,OK?

 

So there are no paint chips?

 

fill in the chips with nail varnish of a suitable colour.

 

Oops. I think the problem there would be the newness of the paint.
Certainly isn't usually a problem on older paint that's well-matured
(ie, shite).
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GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Tried that: worse than before.
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD

Pink is not a suitable colour.

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Problem is that the chips are out of the large, dark red, panel. Which
is a metalflake decal, lacquered over.

Problem 2 is that it's 10 years old, worth next to bugger all, and
hasn't been cosseted for more than ten minutes in its entire life.

A respray would almost demand a full paint job, because of the obvious
contrast, which would cost about what the whole heap is worth.

I'll cost up a full set of plastic, that'll put me off.
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Front mudguard & badge £230
Fairing £710
Fairing sides £520
Front lower panels £292
Deflectors and trim £332
Shelter [1] £402
Trim panels £ 40
Side Panels £416
Pannier (left) £385
Pannier (right) £376
Pannier lids £584
Top Box £468
Topbox lid £240
Spoiler £285
Undertray £165
Rear centre panel £190
Mirrors £485
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£6,120

Excluding all black or chrome trim items. Just the red bits.

Perhaps I'll just the dirt accumulate.

[1] The fairing bits in front of the knees.
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