I decided I hated the look of the rear fender so I took it off. Not being one to cut up stock parts, I made the under cover and license plate bracket out of clearn lexan. Why lexan you ask? It's what I had. it's easy to cut and bends easily with a heat gun. Besides replacing the carburetor, i've been taking pictures of useless things all day with my new camera.
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Quote from: zore on October 15, 2005, 01:25:11 PM
Besides replacing the carburetor, i've been taking pictures of useless things all day with my new camera.
Better be careful calling the V a useless thing. It may hear you & get mad. Then you'll be in trouble. ;D
I have never really liked the rear fender treatment on these bikes either. Your mods look pretty good.
H2O
I still like the looks of the little half fender on the choppped V that was in June '04 Cycle World. I'd put the link here, but the picture in no longer available ;D
~Sable
I like it, it makes it look clean.
Hope you dont mind but I was going to borrow your idea and do the same to my bike.
Where did you attach the lexan to the underside of the bike?
I'll take some pics. I bent the lexan up in the same shape as teh stock fender.
Looks very clean, I like the look of a bobbed fender. I went the route of just trimming the stock one down, I wanted to keep the plate lights and couldn't be bothered to fabricate something from scratch (at the time) so I just took the lights off their extension, located the plate mount as high as it would go and trimmed everything that hung below the plate.
I was looking thru old posts today and just saw the shaved rear fender on your bike. Talk about deja Vu! It looks exactly like the butt end of my bike! I got the same results by cutting off the rear fender (only the exposed bits) with a cutting wheel and reusing the factory liscence plate mount with minor modifications. some cutting and bending required there also. With allittle redneck ingenuity Iwas able to reuse the light as well to keep it legal. I mounted the new aftermarket bullet style blinkers to the luggage rack mounts with a little drilling.
I love the look, but my wife's butt gets a little wet when we ride thru puddles! ::)
I'm another fan of the bobbed fender. Not a lot of fabrication required. Attached existing plate mount and light to the 2 bolts inside the tail piece. Brings the bike from the 80's to the 90's.
I REALLY LIKE your paint job Jay. Do you have a better picture that you can share with us? That flame job looks great.
David
:D Must be catching? :o !!!
I chopped mine a few weeks back as I didn't like the original fender"style".Gives the "old girl" a much more modern look.? 8)
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Quote from: DaveTN on January 09, 2006, 05:01:56 PM
I REALLY LIKE your paint job Jay. Do you have a better picture that you can share with us? That flame job looks great.
David
Also, what do i see the ends of those Mac pipes?
The mac pipes have Hard Krome spiral baffles, the only thing I could find to fit a 3 " pipe. Loud as hell though. I don't mind it suits the Mad Max look of the bike 8).
Here's a closer look at the flames I'll have to post a second photo in another post.
Here's the top of the tank. It took me an entire week to do the entire bike.
Ok last pic of the tank. This all Laquer products no automotive finish used. Work with what you know I guess. ;D
Dude, that has to be the sweetest paint scheme I have ever seen on a Vision! Big ups to thee , bro. -thekid
hey zore where did you put your plate. when i choped my finder i did mine like this
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my wheel helped adjust the plate so it wouldnt rub. also i mounted the factory liscence light to the back of the box behind the tail light.
Quote from: thekid on January 12, 2006, 06:43:19 PM
Dude, that has to be the sweetest paint scheme I have ever seen on a Vision!? Big ups to thee , bro.? -thekid
Thanks man. I was lucky enough to get a mechanically sound bike, just had to clean her up. As of yet I haven't seen another flamed vision. I can see me repainting the bike every winter just to have something to do. Gotta mix it up a little ya know.
The bike looks really nice.? I enjoy interesting paintjobs, that is one of the best I have seen on the Vision!
I like to wrench on the bikes, and trust me, the Vision finds things for you to do to her!
No kidding I bought an aftermarket universal headlight fairing and she deciced to melt the lense for me. I put aftermarket turn signals on her and they wouldn't blink...then one melted.
Thanks for the compliment that is my 4th time painting the vision since Aug 05.
Some people wrench all winter long and I will probably paint every winter.
I have some tribal vinyls on the top of my tank that I picked up cheap off of my brother. I think they look alright,but Id really like to do it right and get myself a custom paint job. I'll try to post a pic of the vinyls soon....
Custom paint aint cheap. The only reason I could afford to do it 4 times is because I'm the Finishing supervisor for a high end Kitchen company. Just a fancy spray booth for wood. I get all materials for free and unlimited use of the spray equipment. I could fit 2 full size pick-ups in the main booth alone.
hey jay how about i drop my girl off to ya and hook me up with some smoked flames in your spare time.
man i wish i knew how to paint. bad thing is i studied art back in school, and still cant paint but one color. or simple tape off jobs.
Most of that paint was just simple taping and a stencil. The hard part is all the prep work and sanding. I was lucky that there isn't a whole lot of body to paint on the vision. This is the fourth paint job trust me the first wasn't so hot ::)
I'm a wood finisher so I'm good with smooth and shiny, It's the detail that took practise.
I would love to paint another vision, but I'm still testing the durability of The catalysed Laquer on my bike. If it holds up I'd gladly paint a few more. The biggest advantage to laquer is that it is highly resistant to gasoline. No matter how much gas I poured on my sample pieces it still didn't wrinkle react or peel.
And after it was wiped off and dried it still didn't affect the gloss. The only other concerns are heat and sunlight, but I have a feeling all will be well. Were trying to organise a Southwestern Ontario ride for the spring if your close enough come on up we can talk paint and what not.
now those smoke flames look awsome. gives some soft curves to complment the hard line of the vision. thats what im looking for. a soft scheme to balance it all out. the hard line flames to me seems not to flow as well as soft blend in. i like the air brush flames. the ones that look as though they could be real.
also most low end flame jobs you see look like they could be stickers or decals. i was thinking some grey smoke wispers, like cigrette smoke, rolling up from the bottom would look awsome.
now the flames one your bike with the detale inside the flame just make it pop. that subtile detail is what makes the difference between a good paint job and an exelcent one.
props to you jay. hope i can make it up for the ride this spring as long as the weather holds. ill be there as well as the dragon.
looks like ill be doing some riding this year. hoo rah to me!! guess ill have to invest in some good bags for the bike.
Those wispy flames are done with a stencil. A specially shaped stencil. didn't have the nerve to try it free hand on my vision but with a little more research I'm sure I can teach myself.
well, after looking at the pics, I think I'm gonna look for a second, third, fourth hand rear fender and chop it and give it a whirl. The bike looks good without it. I may go withthe stubby turn signals too. Nothing that I can't change back to. Want to try to keep her all orriginal if I decide to part with her...NOT!
David
hey,Jay, wanna know a triple coincidence? I just realized after reading your post about working in the custom kitchen field that we have three things in common.
Both our names are Jay ( mine is short for Jason.) we both work in the kitchen business(I've been building and installing custom furniture and kitchens for five years now) and we both have visions, of course 8) freakish, huh?
Mine's short for Jason as well. I'm the head Finisher with my company. It's a great buisness to be in. St Thomas is exploding with new houses and we can hardly keep up.
Sorry for the late posts but I've been busy with a 2 week old and haven't had much time for INTARWEB. Basicly, I removed all the bits of the old fender. I then took a piece of lexan i had, cut and bent it using a heat gun. It serves to keep water and dirt out of the underseat area and holds my license plate.