Tenere Respray - Anyone Done?
 

Hello!

Has anyone had a respray of the Tenere? Rough costs, good places to go to etc?

Also any experience with the Tenere's different graphics? I am getting mine in a few weeks and would like to get it resprayed Yamaha blue (like the R1/R6) and get the original black and white decal back on, but instead of the yellow tenere logo, have the black one from the white tenere put on.

Any info / tips would be appreciated.

I haven't no. Does that look any good? I'll have a google on it now!

Here's a good video showing a full vinyl wrap of a bike...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLxGe...eature=related

Hi Alex -

I think the 2nd quote on the youtube link above is telling - $2000 for vinyl, vs $500 for paint...

Vinyl is great if you want a complex design and graphics like in the video, but for a plain colour, painting is by far the cheapest...

Any bodyshop should be able to paint your bike tank and panels if you take the parts to them and tell them the colour/code you want...

For info, if you intend to paint the grey plastic parts on the Tenere, they will need a lot of sanding and filling to get a decent finish - and a really good key-primer to get it to stick to the flexy plastic.

I paid around �450 to have all my panels repainted (in 2009), although he admitted that with the work involved on the grey parts, he should have charged more.

Original:
http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/r...t/DSCF2841.jpg

Painted:
http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/r...t/DSCF2893.jpg

Repainted cheeks:
http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/r...n/IMG_6684.jpg

Graphics - again any decent sign-writing shop should be able to print/cut you some speedblock stripes and the Yamaha logo in the colours you want - particularly if you have a photo to show them, they can usually work from that - pretty much every logo is available online these days as a vector file that can be manipulated as you wish, although there may be a cost to download the file if the shop doesn't already have it.

Jx

Yes, as the video suggests, I think doing a bike is a lot more labour intensive - both in the design and cutting/fitting as bikes have so many curved and especially compound curved surfaces and intricate apertures etc.

There are some very sharp corners on the Tenere tank which would probably make things difficult too...

Also, as a thought, I'm not sure how robust the vinyl wrap is for an off-road bike? - I imagine it would scratch (and start to peel) if you caught it on thorns or branches, and especially if you dropped the bike?

At least with paint you can touch it in easily enough?

Jx

I'll get some quotes and get them on here for future reference

DIY Vinyl wrap the dodgy $25 fix....
 

Many moons ago, I helped a mate turn a very bogged up Kingswood ute (that had no chance of passing rego) into a very bogged up Woody Ute. Ok so most of the panels were flat but that contact adhesive stuff is good for a year before it is all cracked and pealing. And all you need is a plastic scraper and a hair dryer to smooth out the wrinkles.

Years ago you could buy this sort of stuff in a roll to cover school books in for about $5 a roll:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/DIY-Wood-...item3cb607e51b

I recon a woody Tenere would look OK, hell people ride the hearing aid beige ones and it couldn't look any worse than one of them. Personally Yamaha's should only be in blue...

Have a wee peep here.....

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...423225&page=72

If you scout through the 8 million threads you'll find a rider (an Italian I think if I recall)who's painted his XTZ in the Dakar Chesterfield Yamaha colours...looks really good...

:)

I sort of helped a friend vinyl wrap his Thunderace a year ago. He'd read all he could on the internet and seen plenty of howto videos, bought the tools, and was feeling quite confident.

The bike now looks like ****. Wrinkles and peeling bits all over. It's a lot harder and labour intensive than it looks on youtube :D