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  1. Good question, will wait to find out myself, maybe if it was done professionally then can preserve it but I think it would peel if done by hand unfortunately.
  2. It was a bit tedious of a process cause you have to take all the panels off... and the little side panels and the main cowl panel are attached with these small little pressure type clips that are annoying to take off. Took off entire gas tank(make sure its as empty as possible). I cleaned and dried everything thoroughly and taped off a few things like the gas cap top, edges of the fuel tank (not necessary, i would have saved time by painting the whole thing) and a few other black bits I didnt want to get color on.I took off the wheels, discs, sprocket and taped off the side of the wheel hub and the little slots where the disc and sprocket sit so it goes back together flush. I then laid everything out on a couple pieces of wood ready for paint. You got to use like 4 layers of black or grey plastidip paint(depending on color) as the base layer then 3-4 layers of the actual color paint to get the best finish and for it later to peel off without a problem. All in all took me about 8-10 hours total between two days cause it mostly a lot of prep then waiting 15 minutes between each layer, so set aside a nice afternoon to do it if you ever decide. I got everything on kppigments.com and dipyourcar.com. Dipyoutcar youtube channel has great videos on how to do everything. All in all cost me like $60 which is not bad at all. The finish is a little bit rubbery/sticky but once it dries it improves and they make a spray in a bottle to make the plastidip feel more like a real paint and more slick(i ordered some and will be getting soon to test). Hope this helps, let me know if you got any specific questions. Also heres the photoshop samples my brother did for me to narrow down a color, they really helped, we played around mostly with greens but tried some wild colors that I didnt save haha!
  3. I like those copper wheels! I assume you used masking-tape around the tyre edges and didn't take the tyres off?I pretty much used a tire cleaner gel, put some on a rag and wiped it on the edge of the tire making sure not to touch the edge of the rim, once the paint dried you can easily peel the dried paint off the tire, whatever doesnt peel off came off pretty easily with a micrifiber towel.
  4. Fast Red 2015 FJ-09 got dipped! Decided to try plasti-dip for the first time and had my brother sketch out a buncha color options on Photoshop and this is what we came up with, I'm quite happy with how it came out! Let me know what you guys/gals think, if anyones interested the colors are Army Green Camo and wheels are Copper Metallizer. Still need to paint/switch the red side FJ-09 sticker but it doesnt look too bad either way!
  5. Save a few additional $$$ by getting them here...http://www.partshark.com/oemparts/a/yam/5762d2cf87a86610f0f77648/flasher-light
  6. Awesome vid, will buy a manometer and probably do this myself in the future, doesn't seem too bad at all!
  7. I've had it on my other bike horizontally for 5 years without a hitch so this being more aerodynamic should be even more so solid hehe
  8. ...very inventive indeed, just hate to think what forces are acting on that assembly as you ride down some bumpy roads :-S ... any way to get some bracing made to support the bicycle further towards the rear? Good luck, and inspect frequently. Yeah there's going to be a small support that sits on top of the rear rack that will hold up the bicycle seat upwards...with that there is minimal flex, not worried about it at all, it's supported pretty good in a few spots, but I will make sure to inspect often indeed
  9. So I ride BMX bikes for fun and was one of the reasons why the FJ appealed to me in the first place so I can take my BMX bike on longer adventures on a really great motorcycle... So I had my friend construct me this awesome and simply designed bracket that allows me to carry my bike vertically ( I have a bike rack on my 77' XS650 but is mounted horizontally and acts like a giant wind sail on the hwy) on a solid ParkTools bike clamp and be able to use my SHAD side bags. Only thing I sacrifice is the SHAD SH-39 top box with the bike on the rack but the clever design lets me easily keep the top box on when the bike is off which is a lot of the time for work commute and riding in the city (Chicago) Let me know what you guys think...it'll work with road and MTB bikes also
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