{"id":682,"date":"2013-08-06T18:19:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeme.tv\/?p=682"},"modified":"2013-09-02T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T03:25:52","slug":"the-gray-project-yamaha-xv1900-roadliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/the-gray-project-yamaha-xv1900-roadliner\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GRAY PROJECT – YAMAHA XV1900 ROADLINER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not too long ago, I embarked on a another project bike in conjunction with Yamaha Australia and AMCN.<\/p>\n

The bike was an XV1900 – arguably the best cruiser available in Australia today.<\/p>\n

But seriously in need of some kinda masculinity to take away from its somewhat too arty…um, artiness.<\/p>\n

So, while I shall eventually get to things like pipes and bling and suspenders and engine, I really had to do soemthing about it’s look.<\/p>\n

Thus. the first port of call was with Brian Bollard at Rip Graphics in Alexandria, for a vinyl wrap. We chose to go with a matte grey and carbon fibre theme to to toughen up the whole look, which would contrast nicely with the bike unique art deco lines.<\/p>\n

Vinyl wrap is a great thing. It looks awesome lasts for years and leaves the original paint pristine underneath.<\/p>\n

RIP Graphics<\/a> are masters at this process, which is not as expensive as you might think, and the colour options are vast.<\/p>\n

Contact RIP graphics on 612 9699 8399 or visit their website<\/a> and view their portfolio of work<\/div>\n
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This is what the beast looked like after we wheeled it into RIP Graphics, as junkies laughed at our efforts<\/p><\/div>\n

\"No,

No, I didn’t wash it. No, do not ask questions about that.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The first thing to get wrapped was the chrome dash. It is much more manly now.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The oil tank followed suite and is now far more primal<\/p><\/div>\n

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Next came the headlight nacelle and much swearing, though I am told there was much more swearing during the wrapping of the tank<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Much

Much better!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sexy as a sexy thing<\/p><\/div>\n

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And now the tank. The swearing could be heard in Lebanon.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nick speaks to it in a language it can understand.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Behold it’s glorious greyness!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The challenge was to take Yamaha’s rather arty-looking, but very capable, cruiser and to turn it into a tougher street sweeper that made lotsa noise and attracted heaps of girls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeme.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}