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RE: New Post & Video's



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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