New 630 Owner

First bike in 26 yrs..(I'm 54) , I owned an 81', 82', and an 83' Honda XL500-600...was watching Husky's for the last year and finally found a 630 with 1300 miles and grabbed it...I have been messing with it for the past 2 months..home made power up kit, found wings cans in the for sale section here on the "cafe", and installed a KTM fairing...trimmed up the exhaust shield and painted it black...took it for my first ride this weekend (35deg. windy,open face helmet and sunglasses...very cold) and it was great...The crazy thing was I ran into a member of this board (Brian) on his 610...and he gave me the low down on a group of smoto'ers that often get together to do some cruising...Here are a couple of shots

Hi and welcome to the forum. Nice bike! You should update your profile to let us know where your from. We like to rip it up here in Vancouver B.C.

Great looking beast. I wish you well and many happy miles

It was nice to meet you steve.

Any time you want to get out and ride, give me a call.

Brian

Will Do....Thanks

Congrats!! Enjoy it!!

Congrats on the bike. Who's bike is that in digi camo? And how did they get their plastics looking like that?

His name is Brian and its a very nicely applied wrap...very well done!!

It's a vinyl wrap? Or hydrographic printing?

It's a vinyl wrap.

Wow that lloks great for vinyl. Did you do it or pay to have it done? Is that a 610? Ive been thinking about trying my 630 but there are some pretty complex ridges on the front and rear fenders and I dont know if vinyl can do it.

Bought the wrap online. Did the wrap myself.

Not that hard. Just don't stretch it to much. A hair dryer helps with harder bends and folds. Just think Saran Wrap with adhesive on the back.

Wash your plastics good. I started with my fork guards to get a feel for it. Figured they were small enough it wouldn't waste to much if I had to redo them. In total it took me about 3 hours start to finish.

And yes that is a 2006 sm610.

Hope that helps you some.

Brian

Thanks, I may just have to give it a whirl and do like you said. The other thing is if I wrap it like I want im going to have to paint the insides of all the plastics as they are white as of now. I was looking at hydrographic printing but cant find anyone to do my parts. All of them just want to stick to doing coatings on firearms.

Use the wrap. Then just paint the underside of your plastics with plastic dip(http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3573712&cagpspn=pla).

Easy, clean, simple.

Brian

What brand vinyl did you use? I'm thinking of stripping the Plasti-dip off of my 630 and wrapping it. I like the night digital camo...

Sorry. I really don't remember where I ordered the wrap from.

Brian