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Aracheon
03-16-2008, 10:15 PM
The day I bought the bike in April of 2007:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/f4i.jpg




I put red reflective rimstripes on a couple weeks later:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_1198.jpg




Undertail with cheap and ghetto LP taillight. Ignore the license plate, that was put on to show a friend (who is a Harley rider) that sportbikes look stupid with side-mounted plates:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_1292.jpg



4300k HID low beam installed:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_1828.jpg



First time out on a real track:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_0444.jpg



Second time out on a real track:

http://a541.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/106/l_343b11c0735e945f7ed837003842d88c.jpg



New paint job:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_2213.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_2211.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_2209.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j208/aracheon/2001%20F4i/IMG_2206.jpg


Stormtrooper posed from this weekend's St. Patrick's Day Parade:

http://a625.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/57/l_60a13b00ce1a3520c8f0de819da44dc8.jpg

http://a842.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/35/l_693061bb40505285276606f06988dea9.jpg

http://a302.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/81/l_22d6bb539dbd8aa64f9b83d9ec7d0a95.jpg





The red rimstripes will be replaced with white reflective ones this week once they arrive from tapeworks.com.
Respect_My_Authorita
03-16-2008, 10:38 PM
:lol: Nice
njf4i
03-17-2008, 09:07 AM
Paint job looks sweet. Did you do all the work yourself?
Gear Dog
03-17-2008, 10:10 AM
That is sick
JimRBlue
03-17-2008, 04:13 PM
Looks nice! Very clean looking job. Congrats
NGB
03-17-2008, 05:33 PM
Bike looks very clean,nice job!
Aracheon
03-17-2008, 07:53 PM
Paint job looks sweet. Did you do all the work yourself?

I sanded everything down and did most of the fill work myself. (The previous owner was an idiot and dremeled out the front indicator holes for some reason.) The final touchup bodywork and the paint itself was done by a friend's dad, who owns a vintage restoration shop called Pure Vintage Motorsports. Reasonably priced, too.
EvilSteve
03-17-2008, 08:06 PM
That's pretty cool. :)
booboo13
03-18-2008, 10:32 AM
Thats not storm trooper... its Ping Pongs from Spaceball 1.
High_Revs_17
03-18-2008, 03:07 PM
That Stormtrooper must be used to the throttle's other location on the speederbike. :lol:

Bike looks great in white paint.
Aracheon
03-18-2008, 07:47 PM
Thats not storm trooper... its Ping Pongs from Spaceball 1.

:lol:

That Stormtrooper must be used to the throttle's other location on the speederbike. :lol:

Bike looks great in white paint.

:doh: :lol:

Thanks man. :)
liquiddevil2000
03-18-2008, 07:51 PM
nice bike i like the white!!!
Pakhan
03-18-2008, 08:27 PM
Very nice :)

"Stormtrooper, I am your FATHER!!!!"
Marker54
03-18-2008, 09:36 PM
So do you do parades and things like that?...very cool. Nice to see some creativity.
Aracheon
03-19-2008, 07:54 AM
Very nice :)

"Stormtrooper, I am your FATHER!!!!"

Now we just need someone in a Vader costume to sit on that one. :D


So do you do parades and things like that?...very cool. Nice to see some creativity.

The parade was a once-a-year deal with a local sportbike club... and I'm glad. All that stop-and-go was KILLING my clutch hand after having not ridden for 5 months. :(
Aracheon
03-25-2008, 09:48 PM
All photos are courtesy of Joe Gallegos Photography


A couple shots from this Saturday's photoshoot:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2355366673_32cb053697_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/2355366877_5eab4e2913_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2028/2356200392_f38c638ed4_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2220/2355367439_7a59c545d6_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/2359815571_99451e755c_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2360650596_6e1646554a.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2148/2360651038_626cfa2934.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3248/2359816047_7afab4a165.jpg
Respect_My_Authorita
03-25-2008, 10:34 PM
Nice again :D
Cakes206
03-26-2008, 08:34 AM
Whoa :drool:

(bike is nice too)
morpheus6d9
03-26-2008, 07:04 PM
whos the chick
Aracheon
03-26-2008, 08:52 PM
Friend of the photographer. :)
High_Revs_17
03-28-2008, 03:59 PM
I'm glad she wasn't covered up by that storm trooper gear...great shots.
FigNewTon
03-28-2008, 08:03 PM
Very clean looking. Nice work.