Well, after going around the world about 5 times in the last 10 months, I hit it hard today and finished painting the bike. Thought I would post some pics. Results of my painting project. Estimate was about $550 labor, and I provide the paint, so instead I bought a Sears oiled compressor for $400, a paint gun set for $107, paint ('wheel-color' Glasurit from Holt BMW, expensive, probably could have got PPG for half the price, but what the hey, you only live once, and the paint kit and the paint itself looks really nice ), a 3M respirator for about $150, and about a hundred bucks more for lacquer thinner, rags, air-hose fittings, and the desiccant filters from NAPA to keep the moisture out of the line, them are those little white cylinders, I put one on as the first link in the chain before the pressure gauge. The first foto shows the paint in the little Wal-Mart jelly jars, arranged by Coat 1-Primer, Coat 2-Color Coat and Coat 3-Clear, and their hardeners and reducers, and the gun set with the desiccant filter and the pressure gauge hooked up ready to rock, and the 3M respirator, which you must have. You can see a foto in the upper left corner showing the 'before'. Foto 2 is just to show how much sanding you have to do to bring the primer down to smooth before you hit it with the color coat (sanded on the right, unsanded on the left). I was an amateur spraying at first, it turns out there is a sweet spot for the distance back, too close you hose too much paint on and overspray, it can dry either super-glossy or dull, and too far the paint dries out before it hits the plastic and more spatters on so you have to sand it smooth, either way I had to sand each primer coat and then apply the next before I was happy that I had made a nice smooth base. Then I put on two coats of silver, let it dry, sanded it all with a green scrub pad just to rough it up a bit for the next two layers of the silver color coat, then immediately while the color coat is still wet you put on two coats of clear. Done. Check. Not too bad, I received the paint in February and finished today. I think the hardest part was getting used to the three controls on the paint gun for air, paint and mix, so I basically hooked up the gun to the compressor and hit the trigger, and just listened to the variation in sound between the extreme settings of each of the three wheels, and just set each one to the middle, and it worked great. Amazes me, the compressor just kept up like a champ, only turning on rarely, real quiet, so different from a can of spray paint, on the real deal you can basically pull the trigger and the paint will come out non stop, continuously for however long you want, no sputters or burps, nothing, just a solid spray for as long as you want to pull the trigger, like an AK maybe. After you get your distance, and you realize you can just pull the trigger and the paint will just come out forever, you relax and start following the curves like a Renoir man, I also found it helps to hit the surface at almost a 45 degree angle rather than head on, the paint dispersed a lot more evenly. Avg temp in my garage this time of year is about 44 F so the clear coat will have to dry longer than the 8 hours it says on the info sheet. One of the pics looks like the entrance to the bat cave. So maybe if I am lucky I will put the fairing on tomorrow and get the final pic. Jack