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Prepping the Cibby for Racing

Discussion in 'Motorcycle Racing and Track Days' started by kiffsta, Jan 22, 2015.

  1. kiffsta

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    well, Im good to go, will refit the panels tomorrow night and Im sweet.

    Funny story about the Vinyl, I generally pay about $30 for 9m of vinyl which is 600mm wide , I found someone on eBay selling 6 tolls for $99 with free shipping, deal done, the eBay page shows about 24 different rolls with numbers on each colour, once you buy it now, you send them an e-mail with the colours you want and your vinyl rocks up. Easy... so I open notepad on my PC, I type out the numbers I want including black, grey, dark green, white, blue and red .. just as I was about to order it, my wife asks me to do something.

    I finally get back to my PC a few hours later, jump onto eBay , pull the trigger and order my vinyl, I send the seller my wish list for colours and wait patiently for them to rock up, a week later the courier shows while I was at work but leaves his calling card telling me to go to my local post office to collect my box.

    The next day I swing by my post office on the way to taking the kids to school, my son is opening the box for me and says dad, why did you order pink vinyl, I was like WTF... I pull over and pull out my rolls, I had black, grey, lime green, hot pink, brown and Maroon. Not happy Jan....

    I had a very terse e-mail prepared for the seller in my head, when I got home, I checked the listing, turns out I bought my rolls from another seller who used a different number scheme..... EPIC Fail on my behalf.

    I really needed dark green vinyl, so I ordered another roll which showed up today, I managed to find some old white vinyl bits to get my numbers cut.

    Not some my greatest work as my vinyl doesn't like curves on the panels , but it will get me by for the weekend

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    I will be out there on Saturday. Cory said she does not mind the the 3 hour round trip on valentines day to watch motorbike racing hahahaha..
     
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