So its 1:30 in the after noon on Saturday I'm talking shit at scooter world and they about to close. I have nothing better to do so I decided to make my scooter an official rat bike and paint it the official rat bike colour, Matt black.
I went up to R.E.P.C.O. (rip every poor cunt off) and brought some Matt black paint I got three cans but only needed two, some prepsol to remove all the wax and grease and some pain thinner to get rid of the adhesive the stickers left behind. Because this is a rat and I'm painting it on my back porch I am not gonna try to hard to make it look pretty but I don't want the paint peeling off.
So I started by taking off all the stickers and giving the bike a good once over with the thinners then the prepsol. After this I took off all the lights (I didn't have to take the tail light off though thanks for that WT), the seat and all the little things that were going to get in the way. I put all the screws and bolts in a nice little pile, putting each set of screws in masking tape labeling them as mister Gilera though it would be a good idea to make all the screws and bolts different sizes. Now all I had to do was mask the bike up and get painting. I put the first coat on around 6:30pm so it was starting to get dark by the time the second coat was ready to go on there was no light, This is how I got the true rat look by painting it in the dark.
The only real problem I had while paint was it decided to rain on me so on top of being painted at night it also got rained on, man this bike is gonna look wicked.
I put the bike back together today and it looks mint, I have a few things left to do to it. I need to fix the front right indicator as the mount broke off. I am also waiting on a tail light and I need to fix the head set I put a new engine mount on my bike on Friday (well afast135 did thanks for that jono) and because its one solid piece not two it vibrates like a mofo below 80km/hr and the heat set sounds like its going to fall apart so I need to stop it from doing that.
So my bike is all go for next weekend im taking it out in a van and im going to bring the left over Matt black so when I flip it.
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