Honda-SOHC

March 2021 update:
Thanks all for your comments. In the end we went with RS Paints, no other choice. However, things didn’t start well. Not so much Muscat Green rather just Muscat!

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We got in touch with RS Paints who straight away clocked that things weren’t right and sent us out a new bottle. Now we are getting somewhere.

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Check out my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzD1DtOcwxxHf29-6yC7JZA as I will post a vid about the tank once all done.

Thanks again.

Thanks for all the feedback I will pass it on. But, out of interest, are there no other suppliers in the UK of these older Honda colours. Or is RS the only one?

One thing I do recall him saying, is that he didn't like the colour match on a couple of last jobs he had done. Paining replacement parts to match 'original' items. But I thought (later) that this is always going to be a problem as the original paint may have faded a little over time() and the new part IS closer to how it may have looked when new.

As we are doing a full new paint job that is not going to be an issue as there are no original colours to match to...

But back to the thread here. Are there any other suppliers (in the UK) of these older Honda paints. In my case the Muscat Green Metallic. The hunt continues.

Hi
First post so hope its in the right spot.

Seeking recommendations for good motorcycle paint suppliers in the UK. Hope you can help.

I’m doing a part restoration on a late 1970s CB200. I’m at a stage to get the tank and side panels painted back to their original colour after a long process of love and care. I am very happy with the person lined up to do this paint job. His work, advise and support has been second to none.

The colour I’m after is the: G-38M-S: Muscat Green Metallic.

Reading the posts, I’ve found so far, most seem to recommend RS: https://www.rsbikepaint.com/en-gb/shop-paints.php?colourscheme=3747&9181=on

However, to say that the chap the parts are with does not talk very highly of RS, is a massive understatement. And so, I am on the hunt for another (or a few) alternative suggestions for good motorcycle paint suppliers that do this colour and do them well. I have no parts with the original colour so can’t colour sample/match.

Any thoughts and/or recommendations?

(Add your preferred paint supplier, why you like them /their paint and what colour/s you got from them.)

Thanks

Hi, I’m Gareth.

I hope none of you bigger boys…and girls… will mind me being here. I have and am working on a 1970’s CB200. It was my dads’ bike first, he got it at the same time I went up to a ‘proper’ motorbike, in my late teens, a CB100N from my first two wheeled freedom machine… a Tomos moped.
 
Boy did I love and hate that Tomos.

We had many a good ride out together, real good memories. Unfortunately, years later and years ago now, he had a low speed crash while out on it one afternoon. As a result of that he never walked again. ‘We’ fixed it up and I started to use it. More good memories and many long ride (in the rain) around the UK. Then 10ish years ago I embarked on a ‘let’s fix it up’, dad would love to see it back to its former glory.

Work, life, four different jobs and six house/locations moves later I can now begin to see a glimmer of a light at an end of this part restoration project. Sadly, dad died suddenly just over a year ago, so didn’t get to see it done, but I’m still keen to finish this ‘little’ project, with a little 'help' from my now six year old son.
 
I am now getting very close, I hope, I so do hope, to getting this little old bike back on the road. I have recorded the journey via my YouTube channel. I found YouTube vids on bike restorations very useful in the early days so wanted to share my experiences, with the hope it could help someone else. I also found reading the posts on this (and other) forums very helpful.

I will try to add some pics of this CB200, back in its day, once I find them. I’m sure they are in a box somewhere safe… As well as up to date shots as I make those little steps of progress towards getting it back on the road.