That's pure Honda porn!
Why thank you!
Sure looks good! Are you feeling the paint was worth the wait?
You know, I don't think it was worth the wait. There are a few things I'm not happy with:
1) There are a couple lumps in the paint... fortunately they got hidden by the seat
2) They didn't prep the underside well at all and you can see it was just painted right over chipped paint
3) After they managed to mix up the colors ...
... they tried to "save" the decal by sanding around it and masking it off and such. The lines are not crisp in several places like they would be if they had painted the colors properly first and just laid the decal over top (like it said in the instructions...).
4) The decal has a couple small bubbles in it and doesn't meet perfectly in the corner.
Considering how much time they had it, I would expect a better job. It looks good in pictures but if in person you can pick out many flaws. Am I being very anal/a perfection ... sure am.
Anyway, I was planning a ride with a co-worker today that would have been about a 250 mile circuit but it didn't up end working out so I got out for a quick ride on my own for about 70 miles or so.
I rode out to nearby Potash Mine near Allan, Sk. In the background you can see the tailings pile and the beautiful sky today. They say Montana is "Big Sky Country" ... I may beg to differ. lol
Here is the mine, you can see the main shaft and some conveyor galleries leading into the main mill building.
The giant warehouse building is on the very right where the stock all their product.
The potash is loaded into rail cars and shipped out from there. A lot of it actually goes to Asia I think.
The sun was bright today and that really made my recent wax job shine.
Pop!
You can see a bit of my silly oil leak from here...
This is about as bad as it gets and I get a few spots on my side covers from the wind carrying it back. It's not a big deal but just pisses me off since I thought I did everything right. You can also see how my cylinder paint didn't hold up very well ... I suspect this is since I had to re-paint it after I had to have that one cylinder re-sleeved. I suspect I didn't prep the paint well enough and it didn't adhere. All the other paint seems to have adhered better and I think that's because it was going on straight over bead blasted surfaces.
I also suspect that the my sleeves may have crept up a bit when the machine shop that re-sleeved my one bore was has heating the cylinders. I think this is why it's leaking. I really don't know what else it could be... I used all new gaskets (MLS head gasket), all new o-rings, a bit of sealer on the pucks, had the cylinders AND head trued, used heavy duty APE studs torqued down properly ... I just don't know what else I could have done?
Anyway, up to 1250 miles now and still going strong.
IW
