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Virtual Superdream Meet - 01/05/2021- Minutes May 4, 2021 5:50:30 GMT andy1kenobe likes this

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Post by BritPete on May 4, 2021 5:50:30 GMT

All - Saturdays Highlights

BP's bike troubles Saturday

Local Honda Dealer Milton Keynes
Bike dealers in Leighton Buzzard

Mobile Meet - Nick in Uber - dropping his car off - Having door sills done

Old forum

Mix and match bike NA NB NC

Andys X Reg NA and Carls NCs B Reg is the oldest bike

What replaced 400 - VF in 83 ish

Bargains of old stock bikes back in the day

Andys bike - no history - 13 former keepers

Johns Decals

Honda original decals - side panel and tail more shiney

Lacquer spraying 2k 3 hours life once hardener in

CTBs touching up side panels

Colours and nostalgia probably dictates choice

Crash bar - Nicks new plate

British weather summer v winter

Carl's wintering plans

Thailand and India - Double pricing - more for Johnny Foreigner

Nicks Beaconsfield - ambition

Covid impact on employment and office working

Property market and stamp duty Holiday

Nicks chroming and Johns NOS silencer

JOHNS PLANS TO GET BIKES ON THE ROAD - this is recorded so you are being monitored

Paint strippers

CTB - Chicken for dinner

Food review guy posted by Nick on forum

Age related plates and transferable plates
plate formats

Long journeys back in the day on bikes

Tanks and cancer - repairing them - Duffers cut out and weld

Cash in Bank Vs Cash in assets

Costs in old age

Derbyshire meet

Holiday lockdown and Furlough impact on opening

Pete...

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Virtual Superdream Meet - 01/05/2021- Minutes May 5, 2021 14:11:06 GMT comstar and CTB like this

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Post by johnfcbn44dx on May 5, 2021 14:11:06 GMT

The orange /red decals that the cream is slightly dark (looks ok on the pc screen), but when contrasted against a dark surface, in natural light it's still looking reasonable. I've corrected the source files slightly, so they should print spot on for the cream now fingers crossed..

The side emblems however the cream is much to dark, and will need reprinted

Oh, and whilst I have the different Tank Stripes handy, worth noting the difference between the NA & the NB/NDB Tank stripes, regarding shape and size, the NB/NDB are slightly longer, and have steeper angle at the rear, to match the later tanks geometry.

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Current, CB250NA in fast silver, Physiotherapy;- CB400N Helios red, CB450DX, CB400F2 .Pending;-, CB250N X3. CB400NC mot t.b.c, to be replaced by CB450DX...

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Virtual Superdream Meet - 01/05/2021- Minutes May 5, 2021 17:07:53 GMT johnfcbn44dx likes this

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Post by comstar on May 5, 2021 17:07:53 GMT

These look good John, better than any other available offering I have seen out there right now. You would be hard pressed to notice the difference from original on these 100% unless you literally had 'em side by side.

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Virtual Superdream Meet - 01/05/2021- Minutes May 5, 2021 20:29:37 GMT comstar likes this

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Post by johnfcbn44dx on May 5, 2021 20:29:37 GMT

May 5, 2021 17:07:53 GMT comstar said:

These look good John, better than any other available offering I have seen out there right now. You would be hard pressed to notice the difference from original on these 100% unless you literally had 'em side by side.

Thanks for that... I think I've probably gone as far as I can with these two orange red schemes.

I've adjusted the NDB ones, so the cream prints out a bit lighter, the worry is it will come out a little too bright.

I'll do something similar with the NA set, but comparing other things like UBM's original tail cowl cream, I'll not brighten those as much as the NDB set.

Then I'll burn to a disc, to snapshot this latest version.

Next since I have two of these prototype sets is to compare the two types of Vinyl, the Arlon cast vinyl seems interesting, but will it be ok for a novice to fit

. Anyway I will attempt fitting them to my NC, instead of the out of position, large radius cornered, pattern set it came with.

Current, CB250NA in fast silver, Physiotherapy;- CB400N Helios red, CB450DX, CB400F2 .Pending;-, CB250N X3. CB400NC mot t.b.c, to be replaced by CB450DX...