The F4i goes Stormtrooper - Sportbike Addicts

Aracheon · 03-16-2008, 10:15 PM

The day I bought the bike in April of 2007:

I put red reflective rimstripes on a couple weeks later:

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:

4300k HID low beam installed:

First time out on a real track:

Second time out on a real track:

New paint job:

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

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

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

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Originally Posted by njf4i

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.

Bike looks great in white paint.

Aracheon · 03-18-2008, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by booboo13

Thats not storm trooper... its Ping Pongs from Spaceball 1.

Quote:

Originally Posted by High_Revs_17

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

Bike looks great in white paint.

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

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Originally Posted by Pakhan

Very nice

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

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

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Originally Posted by Marker54

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.