Stoli's GSX1400 - The Finished Article

[Stolichnaya]

What's that blue called Stolli? 

It looks the same sort of Purpleish / Blue that my Mrs Mazda is painted in.   Mrs reckons it's blue, a friend of hers came round one day and said nice purple colour! They then had a wee handbags at 3 paces over what colour it was 

its exactly the same blue as the language im using when I see your post winding me up!  VERY BLUE! 

and for the record I do not carry a handbag!

[Sweaty]

It's all about the angle and light I think, as hopefully shown in the zoomed in screen shot from the original photo.
The wheel looks blue, but the swing arm looks purplish (and these are the same colour)

On the other side, when you are just looking at the rear end it looks blue, but if you compare it to the blue on the tank it's totally different, but there are a thousand different shades of every colour.

Either way, I love it & I'm sure it looks stunning in real life. Stoli

[Stolichnaya]

I think that blue is a special powdercoat finish and requires the parts to be chrome-plated first?
At least that's the system I've seen.  Big $$$ but looks awesome esp in the flesh !

Oh and remember the one rule of GSX1400owners.org - even if one gets another bike, one does not leave GSX1400owners.org !

Once in the family, always in the family.....

I know the thing you're on about, not 100% sure if mine was the same but my process was....  The parts are dipped or stripped or blasted of any other finish or contaminant, then powder coated in chrome, then a dusting of blue (not purple!!) and then a shed load of lacquer - you can denote the shade of blue and depth by the amount of blue and lacquer and you build it up and up and then bake..  here are 2 pikes of the wheels back in the day being done...

[Stolichnaya]

It's all about the angle and light I think, as hopefully shown in the zoomed in screen shot from the original photo.
The wheel looks blue, but the swing arm looks purplish (and these are the same colour)

On the other side, when you are just looking at the rear end it looks blue, but if you compare it to the blue on the tank it's totally different, but there are a thousand different shades of every colour.

Either way, I love it & I'm sure it looks stunning in real life. Stoli

Correct Sweaty - it depends on the angle you look at and the light.   One of the reasons I chose it as it changes whatever way you look.  As with most things a photo doesn't really show it fully...
The Yellow also makes it really pop the blue out

[Sweaty]

The wheels look amazing in those last shots Stoli.
Now coat all the amazing powder coated parts in plastic & don't bloody get any stone chips in them   

[Stolichnaya]

The wheels look amazing in those last shots Stoli.
Now coat all the amazing powder coated parts in plastic & don't bloody get any stone chips in them   

coated and coated and layers plus Lacquer by the bucket...  ard as nails !!  here is the job lot.. done a couple of months back !!!

[KiwiCol]

"Very Blue" it is then.  Hence forth the colour of this bike will be known as "Stoli Very Blue" and let no man cast aspersions of it being anything else.    Amen!


And so it came to pass, that a not so ordinary man had a colour named after him. 

[Red Biker]

Can't I have Reds Red Col!!!

[Hooli]

Stoli's bluey purpley blue 

[Stolichnaya]

"Very Blue" it is then.  Hence forth the colour of this bike will be known as "Stoli Very Blue" and let no man cast aspersions of it being anything else.    Amen!


And so it came to pass, that a not so ordinary man had a colour named after him.

well I don't know what to say..  I never expected this...  (tears..  sniff) im so ..  so happy.  i'd like to thank my Manager, the cast, my wife for her support, The Cat, who could forget my adorable STC (Stanley The Cat) and all the people that helped me win this, its so unexpected..  (sniff)

There is actually a Blue Stoli too...  not that the bike was done for this reason..

[Stolichnaya]

Stoli's bluey purpley blue 

whetres that NOT LIKE button I asked for!!!! 

[KiwiCol]

Can't I have Reds Red Col!!!

I guess you could at that!  But some folk may get confused with all the black & think Red was your name & not the colour & go for some shade of black / grey instead of red Red.

[KiwiCol]

So, Stoli is a Vodka?  Thought is was some sort of European beer or the likes. 

@Stolichnaya What do you have it with?  Coke?, Orange?, Ice? Straight?

[seth]

I think you can only drink it with a mixer of blueberry juice 

[MAWO]

Looks mint. But why the switch to 4pot calipers?