Trikke Tips

Kenny Metcalf
to me

Andy.. here are the pics from my 2 day conversion. Friday morning I tore apart my T8, put the parts in a bucket, and proceeded to sand down the T8. I primered the parts with white acrylic primer. Next coat was Dupli-Color Metalic specks (silver), and by Friday evening I even had the Dupli-Color Red Candy applied to the leg arms of the T8.

Saturday morning, I proceeded to paint the next assembly, front forks silver metal specks, followed by candy red. I dropped by SBT to pick up new T8 brake cables, headed back, and found everything dry enough for Dupli-Color Clear coat. When I was finished with all the clear coats, I went to the bucket and started to clean everything and re-lube it all including the bearings. By 4:30 Saturday, I started to re-assemble the T8.

The paint looks great, only a few dings in the process, and easy to touch up later. by 7pm all was back together. I spent a little more time assembling it so as not to scratch it.

If I was going for a custom show paint job, I would have taken the time to color sand the red, and then the clear as well and polish it out, but even without that, you can see how great this turned out.

I would have never attempted anything like this ( a complete tear down), but going through the Trikke training academy enabled me with the knowledge to do this. I enjoyed evey minute of it, and now my T8 matches my 1800 V-twin mtorcycles color.

Here are the pictures, and I’ll send more in the next e-mail (and please share this with Fred)