new cosmetic mod

[wheelsucker]

What do ya'll think? Don't know if anyone else has ever painted the hugger, I think it looks pretty good. Painting the exhaust and footpeg hangers close to the porkchop colors too.

[Greg Field]

What do ya'll think? Don't know if anyone else has ever painted the hugger, I think it looks pretty good. Painting the exhaust and footpeg hangers close to the porkchop colors too.

 

I love original thinking. I have never seen that solution before. Salute!

[JoeV11]

Looks pretty cool! It makes the bike look lower. It wouldn't work on my bike, though; charcoal looks like black. LOL Joe

[Skeeve]

Looks great, but the one drawback is that huggers, by their very nature, tend to get covered w/ road gunk. Ergo, by making it eye-catching, you've also sentenced yourself to more time keeping the bike clean.

 

Does look extremely spiff, tho'!

[orangeokie]

Nicely done. If one is determined to mount an albatross on one's bike, it might as well be painted red!

[wheelsucker]

Nicely done. If one is determined to mount an albatross on one's bike, it might as well be painted red!

 

I agree with the albatross comment, I really liked the look without it on, but while I make the spring protecter I figured I might as well paint it red to see what it would look like. I've ridden it a bit and I probably will have to wipe it down every 500 miles or so, but no big deal. I clear coated it twice so it will do until I get the spring cover piece made. I'll post more pics when I paint the exhaust and peg hangers.

[Paul Minnaert]

Sorry, I don't like it. It makes the bike even more a checkerd flag. All black and red pieces. You had better painted the tail red. And maybe the back part of the front wheel mudgard. So the red parts come toghether.

[biesel]

I don´t like it in red but I like it in anthracite.

 

 

 

This paint matches with the "Rosso Corsa" paint scheme:

FIAT/LANCIA 681 "Ardesia-Metallic".

[stogieBill]

Wheelsucker,

 

It does add a bit more "balance" to the color scheme, however, due to the nature of the area of the hugger, I believe its going to cost you in additional cleaning.

 

Always good to get outside the box and explore things though.

 

[VA Sean]

I think it is really eye-catching, and if that is what you are after, you've achieved it.

 

When I look at my bike, I almost don't notice the hugger on it.

 

 

Makes me wonder if I'd want to do it or not... I don't think I would... but I have considered going tri-colore on the tail... maybe if I did that, then I'd do the hugger too... Plus, my front fender is carbon fiber.... so if I was going to go totally insane, I'd do that up as well... then people would beat me to death for going crazy on a Coppa Italia... all the while accusing me of trying to make it look like this:

 

 

 

[wheelsucker]

I was shooting for something a little more eye catching and I didn't really think the black hugger goes that well with the bike. I thought it it looked too big and just stuffed under there. I think it now looks better and not as stuffed under there. thanks for the comments. I'm going too have too get the tank re-painted sooner or later but may do something completely different if I get the guts(like black and silver of some sort), so this will do until then.

[Alex-Corsa]

As long as it is the same red with the rest of the bike my artistic eye finds it really OK. That's my

It's a matter of taste , if you like it , go for it. (as long as there is some harmony there.)