Fast Eddie's Aprilia RS250 rebuild & restore

[Fast Eddie]

If you're getting bloom, then quite likely it's just too cold. Don't spray when humidity is much over 50% (get a cheap weather station if you have to), don't spray when it's too cold. It's probably just moisture in the air getting trapped in the clear coat. There's a couple of painters on here who might know something useful.

cheers bro, yea it is pretty cold here most of the time in Dunedin.. I will adjust my workspace maybe, I could set up a tent and maybe some heating (maybe a fire... will start a thread if that happens)

I bring anything small enough inside straight away but i guess thats not good enough if the application is in a cold shed. I warm the paint up to room temp too bout 21 deg.

anyway.. always learning.. and can always improve the workshop

[ducatilover]

Come up here and tidy my workshop mate, I've got man-flu, been inside for two days!

[tigertim20]

Come up here and tidy my workshop mate, I've got man-flu, been inside for two days!

dont you have to be a man to have man flu?

[ducatilover]

dont you have to be a man to have man flu?

Want a reach around?

[theflyingkiwi]

What kit pipes have you got/getting bro? where did you get em from.. I'd like some of these elusive kit pipes..

don't hold out, share some secrets with all of us now! this is my thread after all, jeez

my 'kit' pipes are sayaga? if thats how you spell it, i brought them before i brought the black bike with the tygas. and yes i want to keep those pipes aswell

[Fast Eddie]

my 'kit' pipes are sayaga? if thats how you spell it, i brought them before i brought the black bike with the tygas. and yes i want to keep those pipes aswell

oh yip never heard of sayaga.. they aren't on the list of 'kit pipes' in my kit tuning manual guide thing.. the ones they keep harping on about are Lomas pipes or the ones I assume are from suzuki or something the factory kit pipes.

I keep asking but no one seems to know much how to get em.

where do you get sayaga pipes from? and how much they sting ya?

meh anyone can get tygas off their website and they are cheap - dunno if they are that great tho.. i want these kit pipes in the race manual i have lol or lomas pipes

[xxcbr69xx]

oh yip never heard of sayaga.. they aren't on the list of 'kit pipes' in my kit tuning manual guide thing.. the ones they keep harping on about are Lomas pipes or the ones I assume are from suzuki or something the factory kit pipes.

I keep asking but no one seems to know much how to get em.

where do you get sayaga pipes from? and how much they sting ya?

meh anyone can get tygas off their website and they are cheap - dunno if they are that great tho.. i want these kit pipes in the race manual i have lol or lomas pipes

Try here for JL pipes, not cheap tho!
http://www.jl-mxshop.com/jl-aprilia-exhausts-9-c.asp

Video tour of their workshop....
http://youtu.be/v-6HQvguUu0


Mines got Arrows on it but would love a set of SS Lomas pipes.

[theflyingkiwi]

i got the pipes with the 'kit' SAPC 22d50 together for 900 off trademe

[Fast Eddie]

i got the pipes with the 'kit' SAPC 22d50 together for 900 off trademe

at least the 22d50 matches up pretty cool find on trademe..

I sort of keep an eye out for rgv parts but never seen anything cool..

chur bro I'll keep hunting for a place to buy new - looks like the fella above has given me a link

[Fast Eddie]

Try here for JL pipes, not cheap tho!

cheers bro! legend, google searches and asking people til now has not given me the site to buy em. cheers for that.. I thought they had stopped making them or something and that perhaps lomas was no longer around (since I read alot of old articles when these bikes were new/popular haha)

cheers again! rep for u

cool vid for their workshop too

[Fast Eddie]

p.s. the lomas pipes are not as bad as I thought.. since I read about them a lot and they seem to be THE pipes to go for if you have an rgv or rs250..

500 quid is not unaffordable.

full akrapovik titanium system for my year fireblade.. was over 3,000 from memory eeek.. too late its on the bike now haha! and worth more than the bike..

[imdying]

oh yip never heard of sayaga.. they aren't on the list of 'kit pipes' in my kit tuning manual guide thing..

Sagaya made all the kit parts for Suzuki.

[Fast Eddie]

Sagaya made all the kit parts for Suzuki.

churr, there you go - they are probably the kit pipes in the manual then..

choice choice - got some names and websites now should be able to score some kit pipes eventually..

Aprilia is back on the back burner anyway - need to buy a big trailer for the sidecar and fit a towbar to the car now. $$$$

think the blade needs new wheel bearings and some TLC too.. she gets a hard life.

[ducatilover]

Do a fuckin' skid already ya twat

[imdying]

churr, there you go - they are probably the kit pipes in the manual then..

AFAIK, but you'd want to double check.

There was set a set on Yahoo Japan last year, 1 of 10 sets, in titanium, $3500NZD. I wanted them so badly... but basically unobtainable so that would be that first time I crashed the bike.... didn't seem like the best place to put $3500 when it's just a thrash at the track bike.