Ninja Porn: Puig, Area P, Blackness
The point of ‘Readers Rides’ is to give people a visual reference of how parts look on their bikes. So, if you wanna see your bike up here, send me your pictures (Good pictures please.. No camera phones / Digital cameras from 1994)
Here are some great shots from one of our reader Bryan, who is well on his way to perfecting black, on black …. on more black.. One of the things I was excited to see is the Smoke Puig windscreen on this bike… It looks awesome, but for reference, the other parts on this bike are:
- Area P quiet core full exhaust
- Puig dark smoke wind screen
- Fender eliminator/license plate bracket w/LED turn signals
- Self painted gray metallic wheel stripes
- Dynojet kit
- Ported airbox
Nice Bike Man! Keep it up!
JJT Said,
August 25, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
ARE YOU PARKED IN A RIVER????
WHATS WITH THE WALL TO WALL H20???
VERY SHARP RIDE THOUGH… KIND OF THE SAME THING IM GOING FOR… BLACKED OUT
STEALTHY LOOK VERY NICE…
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bthornhill Reply:
August 25th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Yeah, I was just playing around as I was looking for a different background/foreground to capture the image and make it look simple and clean. Plus it was raining a lot here and there was water every so I thought I’d take it one step further. To bad the water was not prettier as at that time it was murky brown from all the rain.
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RicanNinja250 Reply:
August 25th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Very creative background, you took what would normaly be a bad thing and used it in good way…. Kudos!!
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Julian Emmett Turner Said,
August 25, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
*FAP FAP FAP*
That’s why I originally wanted Ebony/black!
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Bryan Thornhill Reply:
August 26th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Don’t be to sad because black has its draw backs. First, the gas cap buzzes all the time from the added heat of being black and it is extremely noisey. I pull my bike into my apartment livingroom at night where I can hear whistling all night long. My dogs still can’t figure out where the sound is coming from where they must think my livingroom is haunted. Second, the bike gets extremely hot if it sits in the sun at all. Third, the paint is painfully hard to keep clean where scratches and scuffs show up on it like a sore thumb, major bummer. Originally I wanted green but the dealer was not going to get any other bikes beside this black one so I took it and rode off with a smile.
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E. Feasible Reply:
September 15th, 2008 at 3:29 am
so thats the buzzing sound i hear as i speed up! i have a black 09 and noticed the buzzing sound as i was leaving the lot!! is anyone else experiencing this (regardless of color?)
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bthornhill Reply:
September 15th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I just wrote you a long email about this where my email account had a glitch and it just disappeared. What a pain in the butt. Basically mine had a problem where it whistled but it was not from the gas tank cap. I have the whistling gas cap thing as well but this was a rotating whistle where it got louder the faster I went. It did not go away after a few seconds like the gas cap whistling does. It was the biggest pain in the ass!!!! and it got louder and louder over time where it drove me crazy!!!! It started to ruin my whole ridding experience and I am not joking. I isolated it to my front wheel after doing so simple trouble shooting where I first removed the speedo cable from the hub area and drove it. No sound change. Next, I reconnected the cable and drove the bike where I coasted and turned the engine off where I still heard the sound. Took the brake rotor apart and did not see any rocks or debris that would be causing the squealing either. The only reason why I could not go further to figure out the problem was that I don’t currently own a front bike stand. In the mean time I took it to the crappy Kawasaki dealership here and they had no clue what was going on and would not let me use the stand. They wanted me to leave my bike for a few days where there was no way I was going to leave it. They don’t take care of their new bikes on their showroom floor where their store front looks like a dirty shack and their inventory is all dusty and scratched and packaged in like sardines. In their shop all their repair units stay outside in their junk yard/scrap yard and that’s what it really looks like. I just continued to ride it hoping that I would be able to scrape some extra cash to buy a front stand but the sound SLOWLY stated to go away. Now after 1000 miles the sound is pretty much gone but if anything was to go wrong again I would have to take it to another Kawi dealer and get them to take it apart and warranty it before the years runs out. Hopefully my problem is cured for ever.
Julian Emmett Turner Said,
August 25, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
BTW, I’ve seen a smoked lense protector that goes over the headlights on Kawiforums.
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Muyo Said,
August 25, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
Wow that is nice man, for the longest time I was trying to decide if I wanted a blue or black.
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Nevar Said,
August 25, 2008 @ 9:55 pm
Sorry for the newbie question here but… What is meant by “Ported Airbox”?
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bthornhill Reply:
August 25th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Porting means to change the size or shape of an object typically to improve performance. I just modified the air box buy cutting into it and changing the size of the inlet in which air enters the airbox and then into the engine. When you take the snorkel out of the stock airbox there is still not a very big opening so I just opened it up a little more with my dremmel tool. Some people choose to remove the airbox all together and slap on air filters but I am one of those that believes an airbox has a purpose and is beneficial for long term performance plus I’d get less gas mileage by taking out the airbox because I would be required to use a much bigger main jets in the carbs to make the fuel mixture correct. I’m sure that exhaust noise would increase a lot by totally removing the airbox but I’ve never done it personally.
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regpaq Reply:
August 30th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
how did you remove the “ninja” decal? I really really want to take it off. Love the debadge look.
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BThornhill Said,
August 30, 2008 @ 8:34 pm
I will tell you a took one side off and it took a ton of work. I’ve been putting the removal of other side off as it is a pain in the butt where I’ve not been looking forward to doing it. You just take off the sticker by pealing back a corner very carefully with your fingernail until you can get a hold of it. Try and not touch the black fairing as your finger nail or what ever you use can scratch the bike as the black plastic shows everything. The sticker comes off in pieces/strips as it is very thin and rips so be ready to spend some time doing the pealing thing. The next pain is it leave a serious residue behind and this is what takes so long to remove. What I did is used Plexis plastic cleaner where I would let it soak in sections for twenty or thirty minutes and just work it off with a soft cloth. Also try WD-40, Honda Pro Polish cleaner in a can as these have solvents that help reduce the stickiness and can aid in getting the residue off. I’ve used all these products in the past and none of the hurt my plastic. Just be ready to spend some time and go slow as you don’t want to mess up that area with scuffs and scratches after the sticker is gone. Hopefully yours will take less time to take off.
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Joe Reply:
January 4th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Wouldn’t it be easier to use a heatgun? Well… if you have access to one. I spend a whole day once removing stickers off a sold dealer’s parts van one day, worked alot faster with the heatgun. Hell the decal is so small you could just heat it up to the point it would wither off as long as you don’t overheat the fairing and burn it… or warp it
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bthornhill Reply:
January 4th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I used a heat gun at first and it just left this thin layer of residue after the sticker was removed that was very difficult to remove. I’ve been removing safety stickers and decals from gas tanks, windshields, fairings and number plates since the early 80’s and this one was one of the harder ones. I wanted to be very careful not to scratch the fragile black plastic so it took a little longer. No big deal. I probably made it sound a little more difficult then it was but it was a pain to get it done perfectly.
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Joe Reply:
January 5th, 2009 at 7:37 am
That residue is just glue, you should be able to get it off with some high performance body solvent, or diluted alcohol. Silicone, wax and grease remover works good too, just takes longer.