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[Twolanerider]

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Here you go.  Trip home from the powder coaters after lunch.  It's cell phone pics on a cloudy day in poor light.  So they don't represent well.  Parts look very good though.  I'm pleased.  Will pick up the rest in a week or so.

[Twolanerider]

Better look at the frame.

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Even close up can't see the metallic well.  Will try later with the real camera.

[Twolanerider]

This image makes the original paint in the side cover look terrible.  Sorry about that.  Decently illustrates the match of the predominant bike color to the powder coat though.

It's a two stage powder.  Color coat and a clear shot and cured separately.  Think this will make a great foundation for a really nice bike.

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WHOOHOOO

 

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[Twolanerider]

WHOOHOOO

 

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What he said ^  .

[09S/E roadglide]

I agree !!

[Twolanerider]

Never got good light today. Dark cloudy dreary crappiness all day long.  Didn't stop me from trying with a real camera though.  So what if I'm redundant.  Still got parts in hand.

Here's where it was after months to score a rear fender and saddlebags:

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This shot of the tank is in poor light also but gives an idea of the metallic in the paint.  In good light it's damn nice.

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This give a better idea of the color match on the frame to the tins. 

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This is overexposed a bit to see the metallic in the first stage of the powder coat better.  In good light it really pops.  It's going to be a fun project.

[Twolanerider]

Thinking out loud a bit here for my own benefit.  Feel free to change channels as stream of consciousness rolls downriver.
 
Small parts picked up were footboard brackets, right side spacers and boards, battery box, coil bracket, swingarm blocks, oil filler cap and maybe a couple other bits not thinking of now.  Picking up on another trip next week are the oil pan, air cleaner cover, triple trees, air dam, horn cover, oil fill neck, tranny top cover, legs, the grills on the Brembo calipers and no doubt a small number of other pieces not thinking of now. 

As it goes together am going to search for an excellent visual complement of chrome and the candy red working with the silver engine and tranny.  Because of that some pieces have here in both chrome and red.  Oil fill neck, footboards and even a spare set of chrome legs that got left over from someone else's bright idea one weekend.  Don't want the chrome to be overwhelmed by the ride and want enough chrome to punctuate the divine redness. 

Since the powder shop is doing it all at such a fair price and since the core parts were setting around as spares having a red and a chrome option for some parts was easy and cheap.  So not sure myself yet just which pieces will eventually live in the final assembly.  But looking forward to finding out.  Am quite pleased, however, with finding just the right mix of color and chrome to be around the engine that the silver engine itself will be a nice complement to the mix.  So no color work on the engine itself.  In fact will all the color elsewhere to my tastes color cylinder and heads would be a bit too much of a good thing.

[Boatman]

I didn't even know until now that they made a red SERK.  You see a lot of the gold one's.

Don, I sure hope you hauled the frame and associated parts home wrapped up blanket's and  not as pictured.   

Enjoyed reading this post and will look forward to it's outcome.

[Twolanerider]

I didn't even know until now that they made a red SERK.  You see a lot of the gold one's.

Don, I sure hope you hauled the frame and associated parts home wrapped up blanket's and  not as pictured.   

Enjoyed reading this post and will look forward to it's outcome.

The parts I brought home today were laying in the bed of the truck Bob.  But it's not what you think.  The bed has something called a Rhino Lining sprayed in.  Rubberized thing.  So all the parts are good.

First stumbled on this bike a couple years ago.  Always wanted one.  In fact it's my all time favorite HD paint scheme.

This one came from up in Iowa.  It had gone through an intersection against a light and got its ass knocked off.  Owner wasn't insured and couldn't do anything with it so it sat for awhile until I heard about it and snapped it up. 

All the damage was in the rear though.  Frame was fine.  Color parts for these are almost impossible to find. Harley made very few of them to begin with and, unlike the gold 03s, spare parts are just never seen.

In a little over a year's time finally scored all the tins (including some spare bags which others here have put to good use) and moved on to the rest of the project.  Still have to get the rest of the parts for and assemble a drivetrain.  Aside from that the bike is all here now though.

It won't be a restoration of an 02 Candy Brandy SERK in all its original detail.  It will have that look though.  Quite a bit I'm doing different though.  Both to update it and to make it match my vision of what I want.  So I guess it'll be what an 02 SERK would've been after I'd had it two or three years .

[Hugh Janis]

Better look at the frame.

  Or else what?