R1100S Repaint + Refresh

[Tunneruk]

I'm looking forward to cracking on with the rest of it tomorrow!

[nab 301]

I love the colour scheme and I wish I could repeat what you did with the exhaust stud!!

[dave the german]

I've got a bottle of OPtiglanz in the garage but never used it yet - Roadburner, was yours from Hein Gericke Carlisle by any chance?

[roadburner]

I've got a bottle of OPtiglanz in the garage but never used it yet - Roadburner, was yours from Hein Gericke Carlisle by any chance?

How did you guess?

I finally used the last of my oil supplies from when i was working there about 3 months ago, the joy of running the uk dangerous goods warehouse was that I got to keep quite a bit of the damaged stock, so I ended up with a load of oil and cleaners etc.

[Tunneruk]

So my Laser 'Y' piece arrived late last week, they almost never come up for sale so I was very lucky to snag it when it came up on Evilbay.

Although it's in perfect mechanical condition it's fair to say it was cosmetically challenged. I did some research and decided to buy some Optiglanz from Germany. It arrived today so I gave it a whirl. It's pretty impressive stuff, it's not effortless by any stretch but I can't think of another off the shelf product to beat it! I sponged it on, left it 5 minutes and used a green scourer to scrub away the grime. Any really tough bits (around welds for example) I used a stainless steel bristled wire brush. They're not perfect by a long way but they look clean and bright. I could have polished them afterwards but I'm happy for them to look clean but used.

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Because I'm a bit of a dick head and because I wanted to run the bike before 9PM I didn't take any photos of the cleaning process :blast But here are some of it fitted ....

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So, if you have crusty stainless headers and you want to clean them up then I can highly recommend Optiglanz, you'll need to put the same amount of effort in as you would cleaning a BBQ grill but I think it's well worth it.

I did start the bike up and the first 10" of the headers turned brown within about 7 seconds

[Tunneruk]

In addition to the exhaust activity I have also been in the booth throwing some paint around.

1st up - Base coat white

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I based up all the parts individually then lightly assembled them and gave the whole lot a liberal single coat, just to ensure that all the panels were an even shade

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Once the final base white had had a 20 minute bake I went over it all again with two coats of white pearl base (I would put a photo up but it wouldn't look any different to the photo above.

This then got another 20 minute bake while I reconfigured my Iwata and started mixing up my clear coat concoction. In order to give the white depth I have added both blue and white xiralic to the clear coat.

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I do have a twinge of doubt about the colour of the indicator pods, they're ordinarily just textured black plastic. I will build the bike up and see how I feel, there's every possibility that they may receive further attention!

[victorlaszlo]

Is the optiglanz that much easier than some wet and dry? Did that on my headers and only took 20 min or so... Although only did the visible parts

[Tunneruk]

Is the optiglanz that much easier than some wet and dry? Did that on my headers and only took 20 min or so... Although only did the visible parts

I would say infinitely easier. Give it a 5 minute soak, quick scrub with a brush and rinse.

[Duane]

Looking good!

[Tunneruk]

Well things have been moving along at CT HQ.

I got the fork lowers and bottom yoke prepped and painted, got some bits and pieces plated. Prepped and painted the wheels and got her back on her wheels.

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I fitted some Billet Alloy indicators (to the already fitted tail tidy)

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And some Rental Grips (I will be repainting the bar ends before )

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I've adapted a modern K1300S logo and used painted it in with the same BMW motorsport colours, It's fairly subtle but seems to work well.

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I've repainted all the black bits of the bike in a metallic that is my own recipe, The belly pan was really knocked about so I wrestled it into submission and got it looking nice

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I have also been applying the second and third coats of clear to all the individual panels which were painted as an assembly during the week. There's bloody miles of it!

[Tunneruk]

Well .... She's finished

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[dave the german]

I hadn't noticed the indicator pods on the other post but I think they really do fit in with the colour scheme - cracking job

[boxerscott]

Great Post. Well done!

[victorlaszlo]

Looks ace - how much for doing that to mine?

[Tunneruk]

Looks ace - how much for doing that to mine?

Honestly .... you don't want to know!