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Wow, got my pillion cowl from sixdog today...its firkin Beautiful!

haha Thanks Man those pics are great! I know your not up this early stressing over my bike...what gives !!!UPS comes here today!!!!

I can't think of a way this can't work, perfect! And the red stripe probably overhangs that by an 1/8 or so each side.

Nice! Good one! I'm in no hurry with this one Captain. How about ref. pic of wing tips in relation to tank cap please.

Lot of questions Captain and some sporadic. ok, i mask everything off scuff up the white, Do I prime the blue areas that will be painted as well as the petcock area? After all that, after pealing the masking away, that ridge we just created between the blue and white paint does that have to be made smooth again? Then apply the decal then clear everything? Blue, decal, white?

Does the masking look right to you?! That blue is so far off!

What is "single stage" and are you talking shaker can paint?

Some more playing around with masking tape. I'll get some white and red vinyl tape.

I think option 2 is the way How well will the white cover the blue?

Hello, I've been putting together an 86 700F for a while now and have come to a point in the build that scares the hell out of me. I need to wrap my head around the idea of repairing or respraying the two tone paint on my fuel tank then applying the trim stripe with the "Honda" wings. The biggest problem is the blue/white color transition on the tank as it sits now is off location in the front; the blue will be showing above and below the decal. Below are three pics Captain80 send me for reference, then a series of pictures of my bike and the PO's carnage. So, I'm thinking the "big" picture is Paint repair, apply decal and then clear coat. Its all the "little" pictures that are unclear and frightening me. I have very little paint experience. The fuel tank is not original paint; I think it was painted with the aftermarket front cowl and those graphics are replaced as well and their placement is probably less than stellar. Any thoughts? The stripe I have is from a CB Decals set and have a Left and Right side with the wings incorporated. Thanks!

I know...it might take some convincing though.

Rumor has it there is a pillion cowl in the works for "Her Highness"... So as any expectant father would do...overthink the details. My question has to do with my seat and reducing excessive movement and stress to the cowl; with no load on it, my seat has a little rock to it and its noticeable one of the front tabs is broken off as that side pulls away from the fuel tank more than the other side. Are there suppose to be any rubber pads between the 4 seat feet and the sub frame? What are the two threaded holes in the subframe that are at the same location where the two forward seat feet rest? Is there a fix for the seat tab? Thanks to whoever's still reading this stuff

I still peek under the sheets... Nice butt...

keny can you possibly re-fit the hinge of the new cap to fit your old ring?

I only have an 86 but on mine the throw-out bearing on the clutch has about that size bearing balls.

Yes their about 1/16 long, I didn't think it was a big deal. (I can't lie, filling these things to length sucked.) Wish I had that Harbor Freight lathe; I think it would be pretty easy to put the stock outside profile on this material.

So I got a cheap set of collet blocks and a 12mm collet to produce the flats, it turned out pretty good for a drill press. A shot of flat black would be good

Got a feeling I'll be re-aligning the cowl after putting these straight ones on.

I'm full of smiles; the look of the stock master caps compared to the red aftermarket things. The cowl stand-offs are drilled, I could stick the studs in now and install but I want to try to come up with a way to put nice looking wrench flats on them. I only need to make a .039 depth of cut, the tricky part will be indexing 180 deg. to cut the other side...

Pretty Girl...lonely

Beautiful pics Terry, I remember spontaneous trips with my VFR in my younger days; it was 12 hours from Toledo, Ohio to the top of Spruce Knob, W.Virginia, then another 1/2 hour down to a little campground on the mountain, wake up and come home... No offense to you and the others that have real mountains with snow and stuff...

Nothing better to do right now so thought I would try to give these a make over. (these are my lower cowl/frame stand-offs) So I got some material from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NM7ZVGH?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details each stick yields 2 parts. I got 2 sticks. I also got some threaded rod in both x6x1.00 and m8x1.25 Captain 80s tells me the original stock standoff had m6 turned threads, I'll use studs. All the other dimensions are wide open on this piece. All I have is a drill press os the outside angles and minor diameter will have to wait until I can get my hands on a cheap lathe. Anyways I have 4 pieces cut, filed to length and waiting to be center drilled and tapped on each end. Waiting on an indicator holder so I can center that in being its so close to the chuck. Oh yea, this is how I filed them to length...got to do what ya got to do... with drill press running...

Amen Brother...

I'm thinking/hoping this is a problem of the past. The cockpit view of the bike will look so sweet with the stock caps in place. The red aftermarket caps did nothing for me. I'm still thinking rear turn signal options, I like what you did with the "guest bike".