Paint and reassembly continues

I decided to toss in this image of the bike in the blog this morning because by this afternoon its going to look a whole lot more like a finished bike. The handlebars are being wired while the majority of the bodywork/sheetmetal is baking after finishing clear yesterday. The swingarm goes in next, followed by the oil tank, then the rear wheel to turn it into a rolling chassis. Not much time to talk about what I’ve been doing for the last week, but if I added a post every day it would’ve been pretty boring for the last few days because all I would’ve been saying is “I prepped this or that for paint, then painted it”. It would’ve been like a broken record. I have to say, it is amazing how much time it takes to do a bike this style – when there won’t be a single piece of chrome on the entire thing when its done – it takes an unbelievable amount of time to prep and shoot components the color of the bike. There are so many pieces that you can’t do them all at the same time because there simply isn’t enough room in the paint booth to put all the parts and be able to move around in there to shoot ‘em and not accidentally knock something over. So its gotta be done in stages, shooting the parts as you’ll need them to keep reassembly going while paint is curing. Its a bunch of work for a one man operation.