Liking that. Liking that a lot.
For those playing along at home, that's a rattle-can job. 4 light coats of Plasti-Kote white primer, 36 hours drying time, a light sand, 4 coats of Plasti-Kote 4400 metallic bronze (it's got pronounced silver sparkles in it), 36 hours drying, another gentle sand, a further 2 very light coats of bronze, 24 hours drying, and then 3 coats of Halfords clear gloss lacquer on the mudguard and side panels and Halfords petrol resistant lacquer on the tank.
The Plasti-Kote paint is pretty decent, and quite hard to mess up as long as you go lightly and treat it primarily as an exercise in can-shaking punctuated by brief bursts of spraying. The lacquer, I wouldn't recommend: the regular stuff runs like a French soldier, and the petrol resistant variety needs to be put on far thicker than I'd like in each coat to get a decent gloss effect.
Still, with enough preparation and patience, I've got a pretty good finish going. It'll need some gentle smoothing and re-lacquering after the lacquer has cured (two weeks!) but it's ridable as-is until then. Also, I think the rear mudguard and luggage rack need painted to match, to balance the frontal pimpness.
I'm in half a mind to do the wheels and crash bars in metallic gold, although that may be a bling too far.
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