Pure Beauty (Moto Version)

[madcat1]

magnesium fork tubes ughhhhhh and they look tie all the important stuff wish i could just drill wholes in all my parts and make it still look sexy

I knew the brake caliper was magnesium but I didn't think the fork tubes were. You sure about that?

Brake caliper is magnesium but the fork tubes are steel with a chrome finish added to them. Then Showa in Japan most likely uses a process called chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or maybe physical vapor deposition (PVD), but probably (CVD) because it distributes the coating much more evenly especially on a cylindrical object, to add a Titanium Nitride coating that is only a few microns thick on top of the chrome surface. They do this process in a vacuum chamber at very high temperatures and introduce special gasses not normally used and charge the chamber at a specific voltage to get the iridescent colors instead of just regular gold TiN. The vacuum chamber allows for a jump in states of matter from a gas straight to a solid (deposition).

[Ih8Hondas]

magnesium fork tubes ughhhhhh and they look tie all the important stuff wish i could just drill wholes in all my parts and make it still look sexy

I knew the brake caliper was magnesium but I didn't think the fork tubes were. You sure about that?

Brake caliper is magnesium but the fork tubes are steel with a chrome finish added to them. Then Showa in Japan most likely uses a process called chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or maybe physical vapor deposition (PVD), but probably (CVD) because it distributes the coating much more evenly especially on a cylindrical object, to add a Titanium Nitride coating that is only a few microns thick on top of the chrome surface. They do this process in a vacuum chamber at very high temperatures and introduce special gasses not normally used and charge the chamber at a specific voltage to get the iridescent colors instead of just regular gold TiN. The vacuum chamber allows for a jump in states of matter from a gas straight to a solid (deposition).

That's what I thought.

[TGphoto]

Topher Ingalls SX bike.


AC's Supermini... fap... fap... Best sounding bike, IMO.

[KTM57]

AC's Supermini... fap... fap... Best sounding bike, IMO.

Those bikes run at such high RPM compared to everything else. They always make me think the clutch is slipping.

[yzmxer608]

so pretty... I wish I could see what they did to the tank, it's all dark and mysterious instead of blue and out of place like mine

You can buy different colored stock replacement tanks.
http://www.cyclebuy.com/shopping/gas_ta ... lity_Guide
$200 for a stock replacement.

[yzmxer608]

Reading reviews on motosport, it doesn't sound like that company has a good track record with everything fitting perfectly on the tank though...

[Ih8Hondas]

so pretty... I wish I could see what they did to the tank, it's all dark and mysterious instead of blue and out of place like mine

You can buy different colored stock replacement tanks.
http://www.cyclebuy.com/shopping/gas_ta ... lity_Guide
$200 for a stock replacement.

Awesome. Now I can fully white out my next bike without having a retarded looking tank.

[SOAB_465]

Awesome. Now I can fully white out my next bike without having a retarded looking tank.

Exactly Right now I keep having to find graphics that have blue on the tank, but they stopped making the GYTR flow graphics I used to run...

[Ih8Hondas]

Awesome. Now I can fully white out my next bike without having a retarded looking tank.

Exactly Right now I keep having to find graphics that have blue on the tank, but they stopped making the GYTR flow graphics I used to run...

That's unfortunate.

[yzmxer608]

1927 Scott Flying Squirrel 600 twin (water cooled)

[Ddavis]

My old CRF150 was Pure Beauty in my opinion.

and the Mega-bomb!

[TGphoto]

One of my favorite bikes ever made. Jesse Rooke's custom creation for F1 driver, Sebastian Vettel. Check out that CRF450 motor! I can only imagine what it sounds like with that pipe!

[yzmxer608]

Topher Ingalls SX bike.

I can actually say that is a good looking Honda, because it's not Red. Cool he went for a totally different look than anyone else!

[KTM57]

The black frame is the icing on the cake. It looks like the sticker on the muffler was taken off, too. It looks good.

[rideblue56]

One of my favorite bikes ever made. Jesse Rooke's custom creation for F1 driver, Sebastian Vettel. Check out that CRF450 motor! I can only imagine what it sounds like with that pipe!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4fIuOHxJhQw/T ... tel+15.jpg

Hell of a masterpiece!