Project Hack

Ok, so I?ve been riding my winter hack for a week now and I?m already sick of the tatty, scuffed miss-matched plastics and the total lack of anything to suggest it?s ever been looked after so I think it?s time to begin modifying it, starting with the wheels and working upwards.



First I rubbed down the wheels (which wasn?t too much hassle as the previous owner had begun polishing the front one):



Then I primed them:



Then a few coats of satin black:







And tomorrow I may lacquer them (yes these wheels are actually off my other project SR but I decided to use them for this bike then do the same with the other pair)



I?m working on a colour scheme at the moment with plenty of ideas in mind, including custom air-brushed matt panels and a few other little bits but no full ideas are set just yet.



I?m going to be converting the bars to Renthals and putting on the most simple clock set I can get my hands on (going for the simplistic look, no fuel gauge, no pissing about with anything other than a Speedo with oil warning light, indicator and main beam warnings.



The rear seat unit will be converted to the SR ?Racing? style one with the tiny seat pad (hopefully it will deter any wannabe pillions from actually wanting to perch on there).



At the moment the engine will stay a stock 125 as I have the other project which will be going all the way. And you can?t sensibly use all the power of the 172 with porting and big-carb etc? in the winter. It will also be getting pretty shitted up in this top quality weather.



So watch this space for further updates.

 

Nice i want more!

 

ok, got back from work tonight and decided to do some (very crude) photoshopping to just get some ideas for colours because i want to get the plastics primed within the next few days.



here are some of the ones i ended up with:

















ok its a lame attempt at photoshopping (more like digital colouring in) and i'm still not much better off for ideas although i do like the black with graduated blue and the pink rocks!!

 

yeh the black with the blue gradient for me tht looks amazing, i fink the top yellow to orange 1 looks cool aswell tho but the black and blue :drool: lol

 

agree or pink. be gay be pink :w00t:

 

i like the 3rd from the bottom with the fading dark green! looks really smart

 

the yellow and red reminds me off the malossi or the black and blue one

 

This one is the best,

the first one is like a malossi one,

the other one looks like some others i've seen, be original

 

yeah i think the black with blue gradient is the way i'm going to go, not positive yet but i really like it

 

WTF is with the yellow though :msn1:



what you should do is that scheme without the yellow with the rims starting with blue outside fading to black on the inner.

 

yeah i couldnt be arsed editing the yellow because i already have a yellow rearseat unit (thanks tweak). but that's not set to stay. i was ondering about the rims (the ones above are really for my race replica bike) but i decided i would fit them whilst getting the current ones sprayed.

 

ok, another update, today i have changed my plastics over to my other set, with the help of tweak, which are better condition but awful colour, eargh lime 'bogey' green.















anyway, i have decided on the black with blue for the colourscheme so i did another digital colour in. wow, it sure beats crayons:





i have also decided on doing the wheel hubs blue, then the spokes fading into black and the rims black, if anyone fancies photoshopping it i would appreciate it as my photoshopping skills (and patience) are limited.



EDIT: the handlebars are not crucial as i'm going renthal.

 

that green looks wacky keep it green

 

Lol, it looks ok if you squint your eyes but its scratched and faded in places. and i don't really like green

 

i saw a blue you would like proper good i painted a guitar at school in ill get a pic when i go back

 

thanks, i'm open to playing with new colours, these things are just initial ideas.

thanks terro, will get one tomorrow hopefully, just the wheel or the whole bike??

 

ok, hope it's not pissin it down tomorrow, i can make a start on preparing my pannels.

 

i actually really like that green i was looking at an sr125 in tht colour if i get 1 im gonna try n get it in tht green lol i like it its a funky colour jus like my orange sr50 lol