Dave’s hobby is rebuilding/restoring ‘rice burner’ motorcycles. He rides them around a track for fun, and finds all sorts of bikes in various stages of disrepair in the process.
The painting is an interesting (and stinky) process, here I have the last end of the painting. He’s putting on the clear coat.
He puts it on over the decorative stickers. First he takes out the dents (it’s mostly fiberglass), fills the cracks and sands. It takes him a long time, sometimes weeks of his spare time, to get the body ready for primer. Then the primer has to be sanded.
He had some frustration with the primer this time because the weather was so hot (it’s been getting to over 110 F for months now – we’re sick of it) that it dried in the paint gun before he got it all on the bike parts. I guess he found an additive to slow down the drying process, and now he’s much happier.
Enjoy the pics.
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