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NO on the double wide tire. Yoiu will feel like you are riding a double wide Winebago. Used to thonk that look was mighty damned impressive looking but now that I know what I know about motorcycles and performance and weight and handling------
Metal finish for sportbikes: Gold ** silver ** anodized color of your choice, pick one or two, do not gop for all three.
Color choice is entirely subjective but my rule is chrome is more for cruisers. Polished aluminum is ok for sportbikes but chrome looks heavy. I think "steel" when I look at chrome. My rearsets are high polished aluminum. Very bright. not so reflective and mirror like as chrome but a lot more eye catching. My chrome plated chain looks dull next to it. Silver metalic paint is also fine for bike parts. Chrome is not for me on a sportbike.
Gold is nice. I like gold with a warm color like your red very much. Gold an also be very eye catching with blue. I would stay away from a gold chrome in favor of a painted gold a/o anodized gold treatment. One exception, stickers. A sticker is entirely for asthetic purposes and therefore, to me, a mirror-like surface of gold can be very nice in a sticker. I would stay away from chromey gold levers and such. That is gona look like a ghetto machine. All bling, no zing.
IOW, I think that gold chrome Monster M would fit very nicely on your red bike. I think that will mean the other stickers will need to match so go chrome gold on the tank and front Ninja emblem. Tail ZZR-14 can be gold sticker too. If you cannot get chrome gold stickers for tank,tail and side, a metalic gold that is not mirror like would work very nicely. Even a simple gold color as in yellow-brown ochre like you have chosen in your mockup above would be cool. In fact, if you do the metalic gold or the ochre gold on the tank/side/tail, a trim of the same color around your Monster M would look very professional.
Love the gold wheel trim with black wheels. Go with a fat stripe like you have if possible. Don't go with chromey gold on the wheels. Just a solid ochre gold color trim would be best IMO. Or some anodized gold wheels. Carrazeria makes nice anodized wheels. Tri R is the lightest and they will be pretty darn close to BST CF wheels in wheight, maybe a bit lighter, even. The OEM wheel style is best for looks.
I guess I am favoring a gold and red scheme over silver. You may consider anodized gold levers and reasets and spools. Maybe a few other gold dodads. Just don't go crazy with mirrror finishes. Black anodized aftermarket parts would gfo nicely if you don't want to be too blinged out.
* Last updated by: Rook on 11/2/2011 @ 5:16 PM *
08 MIDNIGHT SAPPHIRE BLUE ZX-14 Now Deceased, will be resurected
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