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florence:
Why give up on blue?  Just because it was once brown doesn't mean it was a good idea, after all, when it was new there weren't many choices of colour.  Brown just isn't a good choice for a motorcycle paint, it hides the mud too much.

However, I do like that exhaust pipe and handlebars.  Are you going to keep those?

z1100r:
The handlebars is one of reasons why I've kept the bike so long....I love em. My necks bolloxed so I cant ride anything like a Fireblade or R1, even ordinary tourers like Fazers etc hurt now after 100miles.
   I can go miles and miles with those bars though - I get arse ache before my neck gives in -  its why the Honda did nearly all the long trips.

   The Brown....well....its so she recognizes it...!!!! I'm hoping she comes and has go on it when its done. Trouble is the blue cost me 3.99 for 4 tins, I 'm sure RS for the Garnet Brown will be hugely more than that.

   The exhaust in the pics is an old Brit silencer off her brothers Matchless 500 single, It sounded superb. He was a sheetmetal worker and made the system for her using some downpipes off of something.

florence:
Hooray for upright bars; I too love them.  When going into a corner hard, scraping metal, it is a most thrilling feeling to be sitting bolt upright, leaning with the bike.  I'm not a fan of all that knee poking out nonsense, it's very modern and simply not British!

matthewmosse:
In the flesh so to speak the brown looks really nice, like metalflaked walnut - I bought a project bike that coulor a few years ago with very good paint on the pannels and tank and it is a nice coulor though I doubt very much it's either cheap or easy to replicate as it's more than a few coats in different coulors. My favourite though is the green / black which is what my sidecar bike is/ was it's weathered into a texture like leather and I love it like that.

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