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R90/6 help
R90/6 help
Also any recommendations on painting and pin striping the tank fender etc.
Thanks
Steve S
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Re: R90/6 help
As for paint and pinstripe, my last paint job on my RT I had done by a Harley and custom car painter. Most BMW bike colors are available in the Glasurit company (which can be expensive) or Dupont color catalog. The original paint for your bike is no longer available by that I mean the original formula. The color code is still good as I said via Glasurit or Dupont.
Time was you could find a car shop that would do a very nice bike paint job but my experience has been that has gone away. The excuse is that bikes take too much fiddling to prepare, paint and finish to make them worth the shop's time.
So, I found a guy near me by asking around the Harley shops and custom bike shops. He did a very nice paint job for the money.
On your rear fender is or was a tag with a three digit number. This is NOT the paint color code but is a paint/pin stripe code.
I think, Snowbum has a list of these BMW codes broken down with the paint color code and the pinstripe color code. I believe the UK website BM bikes has a color code list for each year. Good luck. St.
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I myself like to sort things out and this winter is the first time I don't have a bike on the lift to sort. I am doing a lot of reading. LOL.
Sorry to hear about the over painting, it makes it harder to get original work done but not impossible. Start looking at any pictures you can of R90/6 bikes with OM paint and stripe. As I wrote, the OM stripe is not terribly complex say as on my RT or RS.
If you go to this website, here is the codes and colors. St.
http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/paintcodes.htm http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/annualcolourschemes.htm
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lotta knowledge out there!