She's coming home tomorrow!!

I just heard back from ToughCoat and I can pick up my frame in the morning. This is going to be a real eye catching frame for sure. The plastics have big shoes to fill to fit on this bike now. 

Here is the process:

Primed Frame

Primed Parts

Coated Frame

Coated Parts

And a close up.

I'll post some more pictures tomorrow after I get it home. 

T minus 10 days

10 days from now and I'll be able to pick up the powder coated frame. I'll be danged if everyone hasn't gotten on the red frame band wagon now. My case in point:

2012 Honda Fury

Mother Honda couldn't be out done by the Kawasaki Mean Streak

And this is just a sweet custom that I found surfing the net

I can't wait to add my '78 Honda Goldwing to the mix. At least I cant find a picture of one of them with the same color scheme yet.

Powder Coated Frame

I've played around with a lot of different color schemes for the '78 Goldwing frame and I've settled on this:
This is a sand rail frame that ToughCoat powder coating did a while back. After talking to the owner he has the color in stock and next week I'll get it up to him. I'm having him do the frame, rear swing arm, center stand, kickstand and steering knuckle. If I had more money and patience I might get really crazy and do the wheels and if I did that I'd want to black out the engine and on and on and on. That's what happens when you give a mouse a muffin.

Can't wait to post pics of my own frame.

In the mean time I've cleaned up the gauge cluster, straightened the radiator fins(using two small flat tip screwdrivers to carefully stand them back up straight) and polished a fist full of nuts and bolts.

When I pulled all the extra bolts from the frame I placed them in ziplock bags and numbered them like on the Goldwing service manual frame diagram:

I also drilled out the rivots on the original Honda GL1000 label on the neck of the frame so I can place it back on after the powder coating. Trying to preserve some of the history of this vintage Goldwing.