GSF 400 Bandit Project

Shortie · May 10, 2008, 02:17:59 PM

I will be retrieving the details of my project from the other site soon, but we've made some pretty good progress on the old girl. I have some new pics to post for you all and I'm happy to say that she should be back together and stylin sooner rather than later. Stay tuned!

somegirl · May 10, 2008, 04:57:27 PM

Great, I'm glad you are keeping us updated! Can't wait to see the new pictures.

Shortie · May 11, 2008, 12:18:21 PM

Here are some teaser pics:

Wheels before:

Primed and ready to go:

My beau pulling the foot pegs (more of a project than you might think...):

New shock from a Bandit 1200 installed to replace the stock mush:

Special thanks to Rustoleum:

Our paint booth (I'm sorry Nate...):

Laying down the satin white:

Masked for my go fast stripe:

Just like Christmas:

I've been waiting since day one to see this!

Wheels after... they look bad ass!

lauramonster · May 11, 2008, 01:12:41 PM

It looks great! Can't wait to see it together!!!

somegirl · May 11, 2008, 02:40:09 PM

Sweet, I love the red stripe! You do look like it's Christmas.

dolci · May 11, 2008, 05:13:36 PM

It is very cool to watch this taking shape. Thanks for posting the pics.

jdubbs32584 · May 11, 2008, 05:31:43 PM

That is lookin awesome!!! Can't wait to see it take shape some more.

DesmoDiva · May 11, 2008, 05:32:29 PM

It is great to see some progress on the project.

Looks like soon you will be [moto]

Qwack · May 13, 2008, 07:35:55 AM

Very nice

Can't wait to see it all together...Bet you can't either

Shortie · May 13, 2008, 09:24:15 PM

So we made some more progress in the last couple of days. All of the rusty welds, scaly spots, and rash on the frame got touched up with some oil based rustoleum this weekend; it didn't match perfectly but it is definitely close and as far as I'm concerned, I'd rather see mismatched red than rusty steel! Tonight the forks got a nice rebuild. A special thanks to Miles and Eric from BCM, Miles for the Monster fork springs (that fit beautifully BTW) and Eric for taking the time to share his awesome suspension knowledge with my beau Tony.

Laying out the details of my tail chop and blinker locations:

Test fitting the mini-spear signals (the bike actually came with the wiring harness hidden away within the headlight assembly):

I swapped the handlebars over tonight. You can see there's just a wee difference between the two:

Shortie · May 13, 2008, 09:25:00 PM

Getting ready to apply the decals. You can also see that the rear wheel has been set back on and the foot pegs have been painted black, along with the triples, headlight housing, brackets, and some other tidbits:

Decals - I love them and hate them all at the same time. They're fun to do but lining them up can be a PITA. After applying the first side, I took some measurements and used fine line tape to mark off the area I needed to land in on the other side.