How do you like your retro bikes?
I've seen many many R9T's and I've painted several now. This one was a little different though, it came to me wearing standard paint but with an absolute fortune's worth of modifications. The Carbon Wheels being the most 'extravagant'
To my eye it's the nicest 'Modified' R9T I've seen without having been cut about. It was just thee right side of 'enough'
Owned by a father and son it came to me for a dash of colour. We hatched a plan and away I went!!
Another bike with what are becoming my signature painted BMW badges ....
Before ...
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During .....
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I didn't photograph the rest of the scheme going together, it was pretty boring to look at ......
Then, with many many many hours work .... it looked like this ......
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Then I took all the painted parts over to their place today and built the bike up!!
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