Jota 120 Frame Paint

Whoa! I'm rapidly getting out of my depth, here.
I expect mine will give the rivet counters kittens, but does retain some of the original features mentioned above.
You can just about see my cam cover in the crap photo at the start. It has plain ends but does have a ribbed top.
It does have a mechanical drive for the tacho and does have the 4/C cams
It does have the single seat with hump, but is not original as I had it recovered
The frame needs repainting because the last time it was done it wasn't done right and is flaking and peeling, so this won't be one with original paint I'm afraid
It does still have the "pikey" fairing trim
And it has got a a single right side fairing mirror, which isn't  even as smart as the ones on Keith's-sorry, but that will have to go.
It has got painted gold pin striping from when it was last repainted in the late 80s by Dream Machine????
It originally had the Marzochi shox with reservoirs but they were red bodied, when I bought it at 4 years old. It now has some nice looking but definitely not original, polished ally units that Toddy sold me in the 90s
I don't have pink leathers, but I do still have my one piece Rivett leathers in Red,Black and White, which I can just about get into if I breath in....hard.
 
DoC thats anal analysis
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Oh dear! What the fuck is anal about it....duh! Just comparing it to my original bought from new in 1982. I wasn't slating the bike at all, as said, a beautiful job. Just saying there are a few differences that's all. It doesn't bother me as long as you get out and ride the bloody thing and that's something I'm not doing much of these days being away so much.  :(
Doing a load of ride-outs on the Aprilia 650 Pegasos though. Driving the Borneo twisties really rocks. It's a real challenge. Vids to follow soon'ish  though it might be next year now lol......
Cheers
DoC!
 
Its the differences that I find interesting,ever been to a Ducati Concourse with 15 exactly the same 916s in a row.Beautiful bikes but boring in mass.
 
Problem i have with wet paint these days it is just never really dries hard. Last frame i had done you could still see washers sink in it as you tightened nuts a couple of months later. Powder coat if done properly seems a lot more durable.
A friend worked at a top marques garage and they had the new swatch cards for Ferrari in water based paints and sprayed a hard top for someone. They found that the paint never went hard on that, you could put your thumb nail in it after a week. Further investigation showed you could do the same on the metal swatch cards. The reason  he was told  was the the EU was re writing the rules on paints faster than the manufacturers could develop new products so things like water based were brought out with no one really knowing what would happen to the paint over longer periods of time. The thing i have noticed is the orange peel, i parked next to a new black BMW recently and the finish was appalling !! once you notice it you start looking around and all the BM's in dark colours are pretty awful. For some reason Audis are much better ?

The next big problem will be EU rules on chrome. :'( 2017 isn't it ?
 
Chromers will be forced to move from hexa-valent Chromium to tri-valent Chromium.
This will mean the lustre will change, more to a bluish yellow than a bright mirror finish.
The only manufacturers able to use hexavalent chromium will be people who hard chrome, as trivalent is not a solution.

Powder coating may be harder but it is more brittle than paint. The 2-pack paint my painter uses is soft for a few days and then hardens up completely.
 
AFAIK the hard chrome/decorative chrome plating is based on a tri-valent chrome electrolyte nowadays, so that shouldn't be a problem. They had to replace flouride acids in their processing by other catalysators for environmental reasons already in the past.

Hexa-valent chrome is an issue for the passivation of the zinc plated parts, where you get a silver finish by using tri-valent chrome and a golden/yellow-ish finish by using hexa-valent chrome. The hexa-valent passivation gives a much better corrosion resistance than the tri-valent, so it is especially the automotive industry which came under pressure by the new regs. Their products operate virtually in a salt water environment during winter. The tri-valent passivation of zinc plated parts (mainly bolts) does not provide enough long-term protection in that environment, so they had to look for alternatives. I'd guess organic Zinc flake coatings like Dacromet are the deal now for them.

At least the classic bikes have been traditionally equipped with zinc plated parts passivated by tri-valent chrome, so the new regs will not become much of an issue here...

 
Genuine Harley chrome add on/parts,have come from China for years,so the chrome problem will raise its head when China starts to implement stricter pollution laws so I wont hold my breath. :(  as for powder coating vs wet painting its horses for courses as there are good and bad companies doing both and its up to you to find what your happy with.Its a bit like the oil debate.
Neale
 
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