Colour choice

Black....obviously! It's a blackbird


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CarlCox said:

My luvverly bird is candy red and obviously faster because it's the best colour. But, she has a few small scratches and scuffs from her 51000 miles of fly killing. The lad in the paint shop says it will ne £1400 for a full respray if I bring all the plastics in bare, or £700 if I don't have a candy colour.

What's the second best colour?

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The issue with honda bike paints is that they are multi stage and use a tinted top coat.
Makes them expensive to have sprayed.

If you are ok to move away from OEM colours - You need to move to a car metalic colour that is just base + clearcoat. ( Some are pretty close to Honda oem colours )
Find a car you like the colour of next time you are out and check if the paint is a simple metalic.

Masda do a gorgeous metalic red. I think the Bird would look great in that colour.

Hawkwind said:

Masda do a gorgeous metalic red. I think the Bird would look great in that colour.

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I'll have a look. Which car? I was leaning towards white, black logos and red xx's.

If you have reliable paint shop in your area you take a part down and get it color matched. If the shop is good they'll enjoy the challenge of hitting the match. As mentioned above some of the factory colors have an almost pearl color. And what a lot of people don't realize is that as far as I know none of the factory Black's are actually black. With a good polish take the bike out in the direct sun. You'll be able to see the micro flake that is added to the black base.

The candy paints are silver, with a colour tinted clear layer on top. The red fades with time so they can't guarantee a colour match.

CarlCox said:

The candy paints are silver, with a colour tinted clear layer on top. The red fades with time so they can't guarantee a colour match.

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I suspected as much

CarlCox said:

I'll have a look. Which car? I was leaning towards white, black logos and red xx's.

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The SUV models and the MX5 I think.

Hawkwind said:

Masda do a gorgeous metalic red. I think the Bird would look great in that colour.

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You are absolutely right. The first time that I saw it in the sunlight I was blown away by how amazing it looked. A word of caution though. People complained about lack of durability. It is an 'eco friendly' paint process.....if such a thing actually exists...and there is usually a trade off with reduced durability.

Red as a whole no matter what it's made of fades pretty quickly in the sun.

beestoys said:

Red as a whole no matter what it's made of fades pretty quickly in the sun.

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Hi Bees,

But just like many other things, it does look gorgeous while it's young.

With the Mazda paint it's chipping that the problem. Pain protective film seems to be the only way to prevent it.

Sounds like what they're using for materials set up to hard. I'd wonder to if it's just the color coat or if it's chipping to bare metal.

beestoys said:

Sounds like what they're using for materials set up to hard. I'd wonder to if it's just the color coat or if it's chipping to bare metal.

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What you say about the fianal coat being too hard makes sense.

In my part of the country which has sand and gravel on the road for at least seven months of the year due to severe winter conditions, rock chips are a way of life. It makes sense to put PPF on a car when it's new if you care about the car, regardless if it has good paint or or Mazda paint. Hopefully, Mazda has sorted out the problem. The Soul Red Crystal paint looked like 'solid liquid' on the car. That's what makes it look so good.

I'm gonna stick with the Candy Red for now. It still looks good, and as one of my fellow racers used to say "you don't look at the bike while you're on it!"