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Re: Engine paint without primer? Or can I mix?
« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2018, 05:26:20 AM »
I suspect you'll find those clip-ons rather uncomfortable with stock pegs. Best to use rear sets and clip-ons, or pegs and super bike bars. With your setup, a great deal of reach is created which weights the wrists, while you have an unnatural curvature of your spine due to stock peg location. Think sitting in a dining chair but stretching across the table to eat from someone else's plate.

Bike is looking rather sharp though!
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Re: Engine paint without primer? Or can I mix?
« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2018, 10:16:11 AM »
Best to use rear sets and clip-ons, or pegs and super bike bars.

Agreed -- from experience.

Nice job on the motor.  Did you "cure" the paint using a hot-box?  If not, make sure to protect the paint from fuel drippings until it has experienced a few heat cycles to cure and harden.
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Re: Engine paint without primer? Or can I mix?
« Reply #27 on: August 20, 2018, 10:29:05 AM »
Best to use rear sets and clip-ons, or pegs and super bike bars.

Agreed -- from experience.

Nice job on the motor.  Did you "cure" the paint using a hot-box?  If not, make sure to protect the paint from fuel drippings until it has experienced a few heat cycles to cure and harden.

Thanks gents. 

After sitting down on it a few times, I think I have to the rear sea route.  Any recommendations on which ones/where to buy?

As for engine curing, it did not have a way to heat-box properly (attempted and failed).  I am about a few weeks away from pulling this puppy back together.  I intent to heat cure while on frame (including the exhaust fresh VHT).  So initial start, will be 100% focused on engine oil for leaks, curing paint, and ergonomics. 

So excited for this fresh start on the bike. 

My parents came up for the weekend to hang with the grand children- and my father and I (bonding time) motored thoughtfully through the majority of the assembly (suspension including swingarm, fuel system, electrical halfway).  It was fun showing off my know-how bc is he knows everything ;)

Here is where things are as we speak (pic below) - work left to be done: rear end assembly, front controls, brakes, fluids (fork oil, brake oil, engine oil).  If all goes as planned, after labour day weekend (I’ll shoot a video).




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Re: Engine paint without primer? Or can I mix?
« Reply #28 on: August 20, 2018, 11:15:45 AM »
Here are some bolt-on Tarozzi rear-sets from Fast From the Past:  http://www.fastfromthepast.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=CB750F

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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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