Fenella's going away outfit :-)

[MerlinPV12]

Originally Posted by Darren69

Stunning looking bike, impressive spec too! The evo of all evo's maybe?

I do think the red/black seat looks good but the plain black looks better to me. It's just my personal preferences you understand and I may have gone with some red piping and the rest just nice black leather instead. And if I'm being really picky maybe black or gold fork legs. That's just nit picking, its a work of art really.

Hi Darren, I'd be happy with your preferences as well, so no contest there! Pictures don't do the seat justice, when you see it in real life the colour comes out so much better. And if I didn't find the stock seat so uncomfortable, I may well have gone for a colour combo as you suggest. Just cant bring myself to spend any money on it!

I have no problem with ohlins gold either, but at the time I wanted something a bit different - the red didn't take long to grow on me. As you may know, you take a punt with anodised colour, so I didn't really know what I'd be getting. Now I've grown to like it and would be reluctant to change.

Black is another good option and one I'm actively perusing by trying to replace as many silver items still on the bike with black. We'll see how that goes, HM managed to find me some Black Ti bolts and I'll continue to look for more.

[Doggy]

Wow, a real work of art!

She just keeps getting better and better looking, stunning job Merlin.

[Dirty]

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I bet the chains weigh more than the bike!

[MerlinPV12]

Originally Posted by Mr Gazza

I think you can put one wheel at a time on bathroom scales and add the two weights together?... Rather saucy mate..

Thanks Mr G

[MerlinPV12]

Originally Posted by Dirty

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I bet the chains weigh more than the bike!

Speechless?? Has to be a first

You might not be far wrong on the chains as one of them is a 2m Almax IV which I have to drag around as I cant lift it!

[MerlinPV12]

Originally Posted by Doggy

Wow, a real work of art!

Thanks Doggy, appreciated

[MerlinPV12]

Originally Posted by bazread

She just keeps getting better and better looking, stunning job Merlin.

You're too kind Baz

Nice customisation job.

On a completely unrelated not, eh, are you getting rid of the exhaust system you previously had on it? Come to think of it, I happen to have a 2011 1100 Evo which may benefit from a new exhaust kit.

[Luddite]

Hope you had a good TT. Did those titanium pipes blue up nicely?

Loving the exhausts, they'd look lovely on my 1100S who did them for you?

[MerlinPV12]

Originally Posted by Luddite

Hope you had a good TT. Did those titanium pipes blue up nicely?

As the weather was so poor over race week and the mountain closed for good chunks of time due to the usual wanna-be racers running out of talent very quickly and binning it, resulting in the Police closing the road for investigation and clear up. This meant I didn't get many miles in. That said, all but one race ran, so we still got to see some great racing. Sadly, Davey, Jochem and Alan didnt return to the paddock, so so sad.

As you would expect the front lower pipe is going a very nice blue, as is the under seat portion, just behind the sub-frame, the rest is coming along veeeery slowly. The shot below was taken just before I left the Island, so a further 200 miles from Liverpool to London has helped it along, a bit.

I was speaking to a guy up at the Creg Ny Baa with a full Ti system on his RSV4 and he said it took him 8 track days and some serious road usage for the whole system to turn blue. Guess its all to do with air flow/cooling. One chap said he had heard that if you spray WD40 on the Ti it helps it along...not sure about that?


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[Luddite]

What a magnificent view (and the scenery's not bad either!).

That blue's coming along nicely...