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RE: New Post & Video's
- Subject: RE: New Post & Video's
- From: "Archer, Doug" <DArcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:29:37 +1000
Brett, The colour you have selected looks fantastic, the
only "Problem" with it is that it fades into the road colour.
Very hard to see at dawn and dusk. A friend of mine has that
colour on his 328i. It has been collected twice at dusk.
Later..Doug
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brettis [mailto:brettis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:35 PM
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: New Post & Video's
>
>
> >>I notice that you have 'custom' as the color of the bike, and
> I'm curious...what does that mean??<< Otterboy
>
> It means that I'm getting it repainted this month..."Steel
> Blue." It's a
> BMW (car) color. I choose it because it's still blue (the ST color I
> originally wanted) but a light blue with silver/grey so it will hide
> scratches easy. I took the black ST because it was the only color I90
> Motorsports could get their hands on. But after my first 100
> mile ride, the
> paint on the tank and sides (from my knees)was all scuffed.
> That's the only
> thing I don't like about the Sprint so far. I just sold a 92
> ST1100 I put
> 70,000 miles on and it didn't have a scratch on it anywhere
> as no part of my
> body touched painted surfaces. It looks like I'll have to 3M
> the whole damn
> bike to keep it from getting badly scratched over the next
> 50,000+ miles.
> <g>
>
> Turns out too, it was a good thing I decided to wait till
> after racetrack
> day to have it painted. That evening I noticed the very lower
> fairing on the
> right side had touched down. It may have been in the first
> half hour around
> the track when I immediately discovered that despite the
> front preload being
> two lines up from its stock setting, the ST was wallowing in
> the dips and
> corners. I had to preload it as far as I could front and back
> to get it
> stiff enough to handle decently.
>
> Send me your snail mail off list and I'll pop a video in the
> mail to you.
>
> Brett
>
>
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