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A black KLR650 gets dressed up
Charlie Payne, owner of SuperDroid Robots, recently purchased a KLR650 with a Bucket List Plan. The plan is to put his son on it after he graduates from college, and with Charlie on his 2008 BMW R1200GS Adventure, the duo will ride from North Carolina to the far reaches of Alaska and back.
Charlie has had custom reflective rimstripes on his BMW for 4 years now, going back to when The Three Amigos (Charlie, Jim, and Rob) trailered to Colorado for an epic motorcycle adventure. Charlie doesn't ever wash his bike and the rimstripes are still intact and still offering extra nighttime visibility and safety. So he knew he wanted to have reflective graphics and rimstripes on the KLR, too.
Charlie decided to find a graphic that seemed cool but, the colors would need to be changed. Plus, he has installed crash bars which limit how far down the graphics can extend onto the side fairings before the bars get in the way. Since the tail section was devoid of any decals, it was only natural to put graphics on it, too. And, of course, we needed to do some custom rimstripes with a bit of Kawasaki Green included.
So Rob traced out pattern shapes, scanned the multiple panels, brought them into Illustrator and digitized the shapes, then set about incorporating the design and colors into the graphic shapes in shades of white, grey, and black.
You can see the evolution from patterns-to-finished graphics here.
Order kit 2325 (other color combos are in the works)
And once they were produced and ready to install, Charlie brought the KLR into the Superdroid machine shop, and Rob set about doing install magic. We had printed some extra rimstripes so we just started putting them on wherever they looked good. A few good nighttime photos are needed to show off how illuminated the bike has become when headlights shine on it from the side and other angles.
For you music lovers out there, Ryan has a put together a talented group of local musicians to form Cygnus X-2, a RUSH Tribute band, that is really worth hearing and seeing. For those of you that don't know, Ryan is a Berklee School of Music graduate with a MP&E (Music Production and Engineering) degree, is
an exceptional drummer, drum teacher at 2112 Percussion, recording engineer, and video producer. He put together all the audio and video you see.
Come on out to an upcoming show!!
Upcoming Shows:
Check out some videos of Cygnus X2 (they are REALLY Good)
Cygnus X-2 plays Limelight
Cygnus X-2 plays Hemispheres Overture
Cygnus X2 at The Pour House Music Hall Promo
The band is also looking for a professional booking agent so, if you know someone (or someone who knows someone) that could help put them on the road, please send an email and let Ryan know.
And NOW that's it for this week. Thanks for reading!
Rob and Ryan Masecar
As always, Tapeworks welcomes your photos of your bike or car! Just a couple things - please tell us what your bike is and what you put on it, and send a few high-resolution photos of closeups as well as wide shots of the whole vehicle to info@tapeworks.com.
And if you've got some sort of testimonial, send it on over, whether it's good or bad!
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