Step 2 - Sanding

The next thing to do was to start prepping the body panels. which means sanding off the paint and getting it down to a paintable surface. I expected this to be a pain in the ass. But I thought with the power sanders that Pops has it would go by pretty fast. Yeah, not so much. That's still a bitch. It took me 1.5 hours to do one body panel last night.

I still had to muscle the sander pretty good, a lot harder than I expected. I also powder coated myself in red paint dust. Which sorta looks like you've been dusted by the pink fairy.

The Stickers are the hardest to remove that just takes a lot of working it. and then the angles, this bike has so many tiny little rounded corners and edges that its gonna be a bitch. I'm already dreading the front fairing, there's just no way to power sand that. I am thinking about going down to Daniel Barry's shop and seeing if he can sand blast it for me. Otherwise that's gonan take hours to hand sand down.

So far today I've ordered a bunch of parts, the new tail section, some bar ends, the new air filter, and some cool spiked windshield bolts to match the spiked bar ends. =)

Rather than buyign a new windshield Im gonna attempt to sand and flat back that as well and then maybe put on some design, like a skull or soem line graphics. Not real sure yet.

I've pritned out a bunch of line drawings of the profile of the bike I scanned in form the owner's manual so I can sketch out the paint job.

Here's a shot of the 1 sanded panel and the shelf of all the parts waiting for their de-skinning.