New owner , Rainy Devon.

[marcus,c]

Hi all, just joined having bought a raptor 1000 , hoping to put some carbon open pipes on if i can find some for sale.. One issue i have with the bike is poor paint on the tank due to bubbling in surface ,i wouldn't mind changing colour from red to carbon effect but not sure what's possible . Anyway hi to everyone from Damp Devon .

[dizzyblonde]

Hi there, welcome aboard.
I got bubbling on the first tank I had. It appears that it was petrol seeking it's way out, due to perhaps not being sealed properly before painting.
I bought a new tank.
Now that needs respraying because I had a fight with a fuel spill out on the road. Nice lorry driver probably overfilled and it spilled out on his way from the station.

I've thought of vinyl wrap. Saw it on wheeler dealers recently!
Undecided...

[snapdragon]

Welcome in hello from not un-wet wiltshire
hot buttered Rum please

yes Dizzy^ does know about tank bubbles.

can't help with cans mine are standard V versions

Ace Of Sprays in Bristol made my paint look like scales, so I guess making it look like carbon is possible too

[shebee]

Welcome



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[norrie]

Hi there,

If the paint is bubbling on the tank I would recommend you buying another one and having it painted. Buell's suffer from this and even after being repainted they tend to bubble up again.

[Spyke]

G'day from sunny Perth (Oz)

Hot buttered rum sounds prettty damn fine though, I'll take one of those, cheers!

[dizzyblonde]

This is stunning. I want!!!
Honda s2000 wrap at TCT Wraps:

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[Spyke]

Yeah they did a good job with that, cheaper than Plastidip probably.

[norrie]

Thats ok until it starts to chip and peel off.

[snapdragon]

This is stunning. I want!!!
Honda s2000 wrap at TCT Wraps:

My little bro does car bodywork, and knows folks who do that sorta thing - near him in Rochdale I think

[shedmonkey]

welcome devonish dude

[Red Mist]

Hi Marcus.

Glad to have you around. Sorry to hear about the weather in Devon. We don't bother to use the term 'Rainy Lancashire' up here as it's a given. A bit like describing a giant as 'big' or a Nissan Micra driver as 'slow'. You can just assume that it's wet up here.

[ozzraptor]

G'day and welcome , dont like the sound of rainy devon ,something with sunshine in it would be ok like sunshine coast or "summer baY"

[norrie]

You could always move to Baltic Scotland.

[HiFi]

Wotcher marcus,c drop by if you're ever anywhere near Somerset