** KNEE DRAGGERS UNITE ** Part XII - My Patch Brothers Tore My Angus

[tooKOOLforSKOOL]

leland, what was your problem with the clear? was it clumpy and textured?

added some black and the tape lines and painting were perfect. but then did the clear and its textured as hell. there was some texture from the primer, but it wasnt visible unless you put your face up to the bike. it looks much worse in the pics than to the eye.

but the clear i guess shows off all those pdimer bumps and also adds alot of its own which are even worse.


am i supposed to wet sand this clear or something?


before clear



after

its called orange peel and its normal. Just wet sand and compound and you'll be good.

edit: didn't see Le Le's reply. just do that

[plsbh]

Well the Leland luck has struck again. I've been waiting 7 days for a tracking number from the boots and rearsets I ordered so I finally sent them a message asking for a update. The track weekend was this weekend so I figured I'd go do at least one day maybe. They got back to me within minutes saying they will contact alpinestars. Then they messaged me right back after that saying they found the problem. Alpinestars had listed their inventory wrong so instead of having the black and white pair of boots I ordered they shipped the all black pair to them. They asked if I wanted those. Which I do not but I'm also needing a pair since mine are gone.

[DaboCheated]

[plsbh]

Bike on Trailer

Did you end up wet sanding and polishing it?

[BootySauce]

That wet sanding isn't a joke. I've painted about 7 bikes. It's takes a while to get it flat enough to start cutting, but I'm a perfectionist.

Wife and I were car shopping a few months ago. I was shocked at some of the waviness on some of the paint jobs on the lot.

[DaboCheated]

Did you end up wet sanding and polishing it?

no, im worried about the clear. its too thin as it is. has about the equivalent of 2 light coats or one solid coat.

to sand i would def need to put more clear on it, which i probably should anyway. but sandibg is not my favorite activity and i guess it is a track bike so i might say **** it.

do you guys think i can spray more clear over this now that its dry?

[darkninja67]

BRB worrying about the paint job on a track bike that you will wad up at some point in time.

fukin potatoheads

[plsbh]

no, im worried about the clear. its too thin as it is. has about the equivalent of 2 light coats or one solid coat.

to sand i would def need to put more clear on it, which i probably should anyway. but sandibg is not my favorite activity and i guess it is a track bike so i might say **** it.

do you guys think i can spray more clear over this now that its dry?

Yeah most likely. That was my problem as well, not putting enough clear on to wet sand it and not burn through it. I too said screw it.

[Dirk__Diggler]

Forgot stats had been removed, I'm 5'9..solid 175 lbs

Test ride one then. I heard if you weigh over 150 they are a pain to get up to speed safely in a city environment.

[mtpaquette]

Test ride one then. I heard if you weigh over 150 they are a pain to get up to speed safely in a city environment.

I watched a 6'1 220lb man "wheeling" one down one of our roads last Friday night.

[Dirk__Diggler]

I watched a 6'1 220lb man "wheeling" one down one of our roads last Friday night.

Pics or it didn't happen...hahaha

[mtpaquette]

Pics or it didn't happen...hahaha

Fuhhh... someones got vids. My new S8 is too big for me to get out of my pocket with the case on it. That or the positioning on my CBR vs DRZ with my S5 Active just makes it a lot harder. I ride with a bunch of stunters and use to post them up on my SC story whenever we were riding.

[plsbh]

Pics or it didn't happen...hahaha

I'm 6'4/5 260lbs.



This guy bought a friends grom and stunted it. He might weigh less than me but he doesn't look it.

[DaboCheated]

its called orange peel and its normal. Just wet sand and compound and you'll be good.

edit: didn't see Le Le's reply. just do that

paint your ****, youre the last one. i want to see what it looks like. what colors and **** are you doing? also tell us your name.


tired of watching preds get their asses kicked. i grew up in nashville

[Ochosiete]

Test ride one then. I heard if you weigh over 150 they are a pain to get up to speed safely in a city environment.

damn , didnt think my weight might play a role, will look into it, if thats the case i might aswell just get the r3 or some other 300 to start

[phillipsanchez]

Groms are the most overpriced pieces of **** out there at the moment. Bikes for a 16 year old chinese chick who is 1.1m tall and on L plates.

[Mumra]

I'm 6'4/5 260lbs.

http://i.imgur.com/AfXevik.jpg?1

This guy bought a friends grom and stunted it. He might weigh less than me but he doesn't look it.

http://i.imgur.com/H1hoYNM.png

all I see is this:


lol

[Dirk__Diggler]

Yeah pics of stunting.. I'm talking about 45-50mph speeds, around town stuff.

But they do look fun.

[DaboCheated]

Yeah pics of stunting.. I'm talking about 45-50mph speeds, around town stuff.

But they do look fun.

how fast does your r1 go?

and knock it off with the sexually explicit PMs or im going to report you

[mtpaquette]

Yeah pics of stunting.. I'm talking about 45-50mph speeds, around town stuff.

But they do look fun.

I think getting them up over 55mph is pretty much not a thing..

[plsbh]

Yeah pics of stunting.. I'm talking about 45-50mph speeds, around town stuff.

But they do look fun.

I think getting them up over 55mph is pretty much not a thing..

I'm pretty sure I got mine up to 69 going down a nice long slope. Mine took long enough to get up to speed stock that I was getting left behind on long straights with everyone else. But they all weigh under 200lbs. A friend and I swapped groms because he had a pipe and filter. I definitely picked up a lot more speed and my friend and I were pretty even off take offs with him on my stock. Sure once we got to topped out he would creep away. It's been a few years though so it's hard to remember exactly.

I don't think I ever tagged mine past a temp tag. I did one long ride with them that day we swapped. Tons of backroads to downtown, then around downtown for a bit, then backroads home.

[plsbh]

all I see is this:

Bear tricycle

lol

I'd hope any male would look like that on a grom. I'm big enough though everyone tells me I look like that on every bike though.

[MtnJax]

great decision, great bike, good head on your shoulders, now tell me whats the fastest youve gone or the most scared youve been since you started riding.

love the SV. been a great bike as a first one.

120 on the interstate nearby at night

the time that uneven paved lane (picture the outer half of the lane having new pavement) sent me across the yellow in the middle of a turn at 55mph. stayed up, but more freaked out because of what could have happened had a car been coming the other direction

[TurkBrah]

Was about to pull the trigger on gsxs 1000 this weekend from a dealer...Saw an add wednesday night(before bed) on craigslist for 06 cbr600rr, full stock, one owner 1500 miles. Went to see it, the bike was practically brand new. Couldn't resist it- and bought it for $4k.

[shanedawg]

dealer offered the 690 enduro to me for ~9800 out the door. Trying to sell my quad in the mean time (they only wanted to give me 2k for it and i think i could pull 3-3500 with a private sale). hopefully in a month or so ill bring that sloot home.

[plsbh]

Was about to pull the trigger on gsxs 1000 this weekend from a dealer...Saw an add wednesday night(before bed) on craigslist for 06 cbr600rr, full stock, one owner 1500 miles. Went to see it, the bike was practically brand new. Couldn't resist it- and bought it for $4k.

Congrats on the purchase.

dealer offered the 690 enduro to me for ~9800 out the door. Trying to sell my quad in the mean time (they only wanted to give me 2k for it and i think i could pull 3-3500 with a private sale). hopefully in a month or so ill bring that sloot home.

Keep us updated. Whats the quad?

[shanedawg]

Congrats on the purchase.



Keep us updated. Whats the quad?

Will do. Its a 2014 suzuki ltz 400 with about 15-20 hours on it since i bought it brand new in 2015. I lost the factory foot guards and it needs like 10 black push pins for a few of the plastics, so thats why they offered me such a low price (lmao). I wasn't mad though, just would like to get a little more out of it.

[Antonio519]

Leaving for Lake Michigan circle ride/tour tomorrow, three of my friends and I, it's about 950 miles, should be a fun 3 days.

I'll post random chit on IG: fastb4ck if anyone wants to follow

[Dirk__Diggler]

how fast does your r1 go?

and knock it off with the sexually explicit PMs or im going to report you

25mph with a tail wind!!! 1cc sucks!!

I will not stop, you keep repping me.

[thisisian]

Not the best photo, but that looks pretty good man. Good job.