New fibreglass front mudguard

Since the recent parking collision (at which I wasn't present) the front mudguard has been precariously partially tethered with strong cable ties. Its replacement arrived this weekend from http://www.fibreglassparts.com/ and I'm very pleased with it. It fits well and it has the metal brackets to the rear moulded into the structure, although I did have to buy longer M5 set screws to attach these.

I was lucky enough to have dry weather which gave me enough time to sand, wash with turps, and then give it a coat of primer, and then a couple of top coats of my near-match beige.

 The new one is on the right :)

More painting

Here's the rear hub in primer. I stripped it by hand with paint stripper so the finish isn't perfect under scrutiny.



The end result with the top coat of Silver / Metallic Grey looks great and matches the silver ScootRS rims really well. I used the same silver for the forks too.



It was also time to spray the top side of the frame and new cross member before I start doing the cables. A perfect match nor finish isn't required here as I'm going to be covering it in Waxoyl before finally fitting the legshields. Remember this ain't no show bike, this is going to be used!



Rather uninspiringly, the best (and it is rather good) match I could find was simply.....Beige.

Rattle-can spraying

This is no show-vehicle, so I've opted to use an aerosol for the few parts that need it. I stripped the forks with Nitromors paint stripper and a wire brush. A few coats of high-build primer followed the next day by a sand and then a few coats of Silver/Metallic Grey did the job:



And the new cross member looks a lot better after just one coat of primer: