Featured 2003 Speed Triple Project

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder Decision made, ordered some BRG paint - a Lotus shade since it was easier and cheaper to get than the Aston color I was thinking of.

 

Definitely not going to be this color Aside from the weird consistency of the paint that makes it run like crazy - it looks like John Deere tractor green. Could have gotten that at the local home improvement store. So once it dries, I'll sand it back down and consider something else. Definitely will not be using that brand of paint again.

 

Paint is gonna wait a while now, might even just let someone do that part this winter. Something else crawled into the garage yesterday to distract me.

 

No pictures, but sent the parts out for paint to let a pro deal with it. Paint color will be the darkest BRG that Jag uses. Should have them back in a few weeks.

 

Few pics from the paint guy last night. Should have them in my hands in a week.

 

Still working on it. Had 0 compression and I shit you not, someone had disassembled the head and reversed the intakes and exhausts in all 4 cylinders when they put it back together. Waiting on head gasket to put it back together.

 

Needs to sit and cure for a week or 2, but turned out very well. Now I just need to decide what kind of decals to put back on.

 

Most of the bikes I buy are non-op or wrecks, so I am not surprised by much anymore. Although the valve thing was really special

 

Stripped it and put in the Traxxion dynamics springs yesterday. Waiting on a fuel pump gasket since the one I pulled off the old tank was trashed, and a new exhaust that doesn't look like (well the stock exhaust).

 

All together, just waiting on exhaust, some stickers and a ventura sidebar set to hang the saddlebags.

 

Wife is costing me some money today. She said - wouldn't the seat look better brown now that the bike is green? Well, yeah and it would match the goat leather saddlebags I have for the bike too. So did some messaging with Volcano in Italy and even though they don't list a brown version of that cover they were willing to make one in a vintage faux leather. So now I need to find another pair of stock seats to recover and then eventually sell the black ones.

 

She was right, the brown distressed leather looks better. The Ventura rack is coming off - don't like the way it looks and it isn't useful for hanging saddle bags like I was hoping. So now I just need to sell the Black set.