Lance Mark
New member
My detailing story is pretty short.
A few years back, I started looking for a shop to coat my bike. I knew nothing about washes, decontamination, clay barring, correcting, etc. As I started to look into it, I realized: for close to the cost of what it will take to hire it done, I am well on the way to outfitting myself with an arsenal of some basic tools to get the job done.
Then I watched a lot of youtube.
Before taking a wheel and abrasives to my bike, I practiced on an old beater pickup truck until I dialed in on how to use what I was working with to correct a clear coat.
Since then, I've put about 40k miles on the bike and have polished and coated it a second time already. For a bike with 70k miles on it, it's in great shape. I was at a sound competition down in Indiana and a Thunder Roads photographer grabbed a great shot of my sled. It's not perfect, as it has a few days of riding all over it, but PA's Cosmic V2 and High Gloss were a great combo and have held up really well.
Word gets around. I've done a few bikes for folks. I really don't have any interest in doing cages.
Here's a '99 rear fender of a metric I worked on last winter. The front fender is corrected only, no LSP.
A trike and a street glide I did this past summer.
Glad to be here and thanks for looking.
A few years back, I started looking for a shop to coat my bike. I knew nothing about washes, decontamination, clay barring, correcting, etc. As I started to look into it, I realized: for close to the cost of what it will take to hire it done, I am well on the way to outfitting myself with an arsenal of some basic tools to get the job done.
Then I watched a lot of youtube.
Before taking a wheel and abrasives to my bike, I practiced on an old beater pickup truck until I dialed in on how to use what I was working with to correct a clear coat.
Since then, I've put about 40k miles on the bike and have polished and coated it a second time already. For a bike with 70k miles on it, it's in great shape. I was at a sound competition down in Indiana and a Thunder Roads photographer grabbed a great shot of my sled. It's not perfect, as it has a few days of riding all over it, but PA's Cosmic V2 and High Gloss were a great combo and have held up really well.
Word gets around. I've done a few bikes for folks. I really don't have any interest in doing cages.
Here's a '99 rear fender of a metric I worked on last winter. The front fender is corrected only, no LSP.
A trike and a street glide I did this past summer.
Glad to be here and thanks for looking.
