Andy wrote:Will be great to see a second livery. That's what I intend for my 21 eventually. I do love the Cup Noodle, but the bodywork is rubbish, and there are numerous other Noodles now... I have my eye on something different.
Andy
Your Cup Noodle is iconic and I’ve read somewhere the error with one of the decals is now legendry and unwittingly reproduced on other bikes when the image was used as someone’s reference point, sure Steve Alee has/had one as well but with the headlight blanked off?
Thinking about my plan I’m not sure I’ve got the skill or patience to pull off a 50/50 and even then it might look a total Dogs diner, so perhaps safer and wiser to go with a full HB version on both sides. Legally I’ll be fine with the adhoc colour change as DVLA and the logbook show “Colour – Not Stated”
Before I can start I need to finish off my side project which I need up and running for the spring, the other half passed her test this year and now riding a 650 and I really want to ride the North Coast 500 in 2026,
As much as I’d like to do it on the NSR its just not got long enough legs for the distance involved, so sold my soul to the devil and bought a retro four stroke, my ultimate bike being a late 90’s SP1 in Lucky Strike or Cabin livery, but for the time being settled on a late 80’s ZXR with OK to tatty bodywork so my plan is to turn it into a “Kawasaki France” inspired endurance racer similar to what Hislop/Foggy and Rymer won the Bol’Dor on in 92. (they also won at Spa and Le Mans that year)
To achieve that I need to blank off one of the two front headlights so that a number plate board can take its place, which called for an old OEM NSR panel to be chopped up and permanently bonded in using Plastex which is the same stuff as both panels are made of so seamless and permanent joints are easily achieved.
Taking the plug from a curve in the NSR panel meant shaping was reduced to a minimum but even so I still used a fair bit of the Plastex granules to obtain the desired profile before skimming over with the lightest amount of filler
You can see the evidence of the plastic ruler I used during the shaping process in order to get the desired profile
And then after an initial sanding and a blob of filler (yet to be fine sanded) it close to primer
Anyway won’t rattle on about a ZXR or I’ll be condemned to the realms of the “Off Topic” section even if a tiny piece of it comes from a RIP MC16 side panel
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Nick
Rebuild project NSR250 MC18 R4J