I just finished 5-7 coats of red and black on my plastics, levers, and rearsets. Used plasti dip. Shits amazing. It's cheap, easy clean-up, durable, matte color, and you can remove it and redo it anytime you want. Check out dipyourcar.com for the best color selection. It comes in all sorts of colors, liquid for high volume spray applications, aerosol for rims/parts/etc, and the even have a taillight smoker. You can usually find the red/black/clear aerosol cans for about $9 at ace hardware...but only in those colors and usually no more than 3 cans of each. If youre wanting to try a new color but don't want to spend an assload of cash for some something you might not like try this shit, it's wicked.
That crap is pretty awesome. Just be careful when applying it to metals.
If you get any cuts or holes in the dip, and then get moisture under there, you can have issues. Moisture can stay under the dip for a long time, and cause problems. I'd love to see how your fairings turned out
That is a good idea... Here I was stuck thinking about dip'n my wheels (like everybody else)
Though Ive never used the stuff before, how does the removal of the dip affect the decals on the bike? I feel like it may take some of them up? Have you had to redo any over a old decal?
I have not done it over any decals....but I would imagine that A. The edge of the decal would probably show through in the dip and would make it more elevated, and B. if the decals were already peeling off or lifted at all it would most likely pull them up....but if they're stuck on pretty good I don't think you'd have an issue. Either way, the stuff is amazing. If you do lay the dip on I recommend at least 3-4 coats for black, at least 7 coats for white, and at least 6 coats for any ther colors. They didn't have enough red for me to do 6 coats at the store, so the black paint originally on the parts I dipped red kinda shows through in the low spots of the texture. If you try out doing it over decals let me know how it turns out.
Your method is much better anyways. Theres no pic's but im assuming you masked out the decals with painters tape/newspaper/whatever.
This keeps it looking clean.
If one should need to paint over a decal, reasons for painting over the decal must be that the decal looks like crap. So then why not remove it? <--- We should start thinking this way instead lol
You'd have to be a painters tape/exacto knife Jedi to mask it.....and when masking off any stripes/designs/stencils you have to peel everything off while the dip is still wet to get clean lines......I had some decals on my windscreen pre-dip, I just pulled them off.....but if you happen to be rolling throu Denver anytime soon I'd be happy to try out the above mentioned Jedi tricks. Lol
plasti dip is amazing...love that stuff lol was painting my bike matte white with a coat or 2 of clear gloss and i ran out of paint haha half the bike was done so i had to peal everything off lol
It goes on a little thicker than laquer. And yes you can tape off, but you have to remove the tape while the dip is still wet to get clean lines. Don't worry about taping off the headlights though as it will peel clean off of them.
You can order the new plastidip blaze colors from dipyourcar.com . They have a sick bright orange for sure, I don't know how good their yellow looks though.
Im curious to see the more long term durability I looked into this but settled on vinyl. Have you used any type of wax or coat on it? Alot of people were saying that applying a good strong wax will help. I hope you keep us updated I would be very interested to see if you start getting some flecks, or peeling. Hope it works out well and please put up more pics!:toocool:
I got a little peeling on my rearsets and levers, dipped black....but I was lazy and didnt prep very well for those. I have yet to apply any wax, but when I do I'll let you know what happens. I would have done vinyl as well, but I'm too broke. Lol.
I was thinking about getting my R6 Painted matte white, but I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. In the past I have done some plasti dip work to my G8 gt. So I decided to dip my left lower fairing white. I think it came out looking really nice. Now I'm thinking about dipping more of the bikes fairings white. It took about 6 - 7 coats. What do you guys think?
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