CB1300 Before & After: What do you reckon?

[ceebie13]

Following on (in a way) from my thread about the wife thinking I'm anal where you will see pics of the CB suspended without the round things that are essential to riding, I have attached a "before and after" picture of the beast now that the wheels have been re-fitted. Whaddayathink?

For information: The sandblasting was by Shane Groeneveld at Miramar Blasting ($60) and the powdercoating and lacquering was by Bert King at powder surfaces in Upper Hutt. ($50). The wheels were dismantled and rebuilt by Wayne at Motomart. The cost of this should have been around $100 but was actually a bit more as I had neglected to mask the disc/wheel anchor points which meant scraping back the new coating to the machined metal. Sorry Wayne. Doh!

[James Deuce]

Looks gorgeous!

Nice work.

[LilSel]

Awesome... looks sweeeet :D

[sAsLEX]

your forks grew a honda sticker and a reflector while you were out!:gob:

[Swoop]

Shit, that looks nice! Bloody good work mate.:yes:

[DMNTD]

Looks bloody nice mate...more "old school" which I prefer by far,looks the biz :yes:
Have been considering doing something similar to mine and haven't made up my mind whether to find a "chrome" powercoat or have them polished and clear coated.

Once again looking good!

[Kendog]

Looks great!!!:niceone:
Been thinking about getting my pipes powder coated or something as I'm sick of scrubbing and polishing them, so thanks for the info of the dudes that do these things, and local too, even better.:cool:
Mrs KD.

[Macktheknife]

Looks great! nice job and a decent price too.

[ceebie13]

your forks grew a honda sticker and a reflector while you were out!:gob:

Bloody Hell!! So they did... how on earth did that happen! Whats more, there's matching ones on the other side!

[ceebie13]

A rear hugger (Skidmarx) and sports carrier (Renntec) are in the pipeline. Both having to come from the UK though. And I suppose maybe an aftermarket can... but that can wait - I quite like the smooth silky silence!
Meantime, thanks for the compliments guys & gals.

[James Deuce]

Don't tell me you got Skidmarx to send stuff directly? They told me to fuck off and use their Aussie distributor who jacks the converted UK price by 220% + freight to NZ.

[ceebie13]

Don't tell me you got Skidmarx to send stuff directly? They told me to fuck off and use their Aussie distributor who jacks the converted UK price by 220% + freight to NZ.


Hi mate... well it seems they are happy to play ball. I don't have a credit card so online ordering wasn't going to work. But I emailed them and said I could have a cheque sent direct from my UK Nationwide account and they said that would be fine. Guess they may still hike the price of shipping tho. Havent ordered anything yet mind you.

[James Deuce]

I am in the same position and I also have purchased stuff from them in the past. Not suggesting that they are bad people, and the product is certainly great, but why the inconsistent approach to selling to overseas customsers?

[ceebie13]

I am in the same position and I also have purchased stuff from them in the past. Not suggesting that they are bad people, and the product is certainly great, but why the inconsistent approach to selling to overseas customsers?


Pass! Different monkey at the other end maybe? Chris was the bloke I've been emailing.

[ceebie13]

Looks great!!!:niceone:
Been thinking about getting my pipes powder coated or something as I'm sick of scrubbing and polishing them, so thanks for the info of the dudes that do these things, and local too, even better.:cool:
Mrs KD.

Hi Mrs KD...

Pipes? Powdercoated? Are you sure? I'd be interested to see that.

[Kendog]

maybe it was powercoat? It was something like that the other half was mumbling about as I was bitching at my pipes being tarnished and covered in road tar and grit!

[slimjim]

Looks gorgeous!

Nice work.
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it's a bik,:gob: not a set of leg's, na reckon it looks like any other set of alloys , what's wrong with chroming

[ceebie13]

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it's a bik,:gob: not a set of leg's, na reckon it looks like any other set of alloys , what's wrong with chroming

er.... nowt wrong with chrome. If you like chrome that is. Personally I chose the paint job so it wouldn't end up looking like something out of Monster Garage!

[ceebie13]

maybe it was powercoat? It was something like that the other half was mumbling about as I was bitching at my pipes being tarnished and covered in road tar and grit!

WD40 dissolves road tar well and Autosol (plus elbow grease) will remove any "pipe-blueing". Guess its all down to how long you are prepared to spend doing those fiddly bits when you could be out riding :-). Mrs Ceebie and I will look out for a brace of Hornets then next time the sun entices us all over the hill...hang on? I'm over the hill already :-(

[Kendog]

Sounds good Ceebie, be interested to have a close lookie at your lovely new bike!!:yes:
Yeah, I know, elbow grease etc, but like you say, I'd rather be riding, or watching tv, drinking, scratching my bum, picking my nose etc, anything than scrubbing my pipes! :done: Lol.
Mrs KD.

[ceebie13]

Sounds good Ceebie, be interested to have a close lookie at your lovely new bike!!:yes:
Yeah, I know, elbow grease etc, but like you say, I'd rather be riding, or watching tv, drinking, scratching my bum, picking my nose etc, anything than scrubbing my pipes! :done: Lol.
Mrs KD.

Ha! Lyn and I do all those things too...in bed! Not a pretty sight! lol.
Will you be out and about over this coming w/e?

[riffer]

Thanks heaps for this post.

At the end of the current BMX season our oldest will be moving from his Haro mini race bike to another. I was hoping to have the frame sandblasted and powdercoated so now I don't have to look any more.

BTW the bike looks gorgeous.

[Kendog]

We were planning on going to Manfield for Sunday trackday, but weather looks disgusting!
If it clears up at all, yep will be riding somewhere, sometime, but if it stays like it is at the mo, I think the scratching my bum in bed sounds like a plan!!
Hope the weather is good so you can clock up some more ks on your new toy!!

[ceebie13]

...I think the scratching my bum in bed sounds like a plan!! !!

haha... I often tell Lyn she has a nice bum... just a shame there's a crack in it!
Yeah...typical Labour Day weather forecasted. Will keep an eye out if it changes.

[_intense_]

looks mint, definatly a sweet blingmod, simple aswell, i did a similar thing to my gunmetal/black/red cbr250rr, it had hideous red rims, i spent 140 an got em done satin black, a million times sexier, a rim change is a shibbey way to restyle ur bike scheme. :D

[Waylander]

Looks good mate, certainly makes your front tyre look less chunky and fat.