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Does anyone sell black side panels for a late model KDX?

How about black lower fork guards for '03 KX125 forks?

I seem to be striking out on both.

Yes. Go to Rocky Mountain website, they have number plates for KDX's. All colors, whatever number you want, etc. All for like $39 plus shipping.

I am pretty sure UFO plastics should make fork guards in black color for KX's '03. If not, try lightspeed as they make the carbon fiber ones for a wide range of bikes. I have these on my '01 KX 250.

dejovi22 wrote:Yes. Go to Rocky Mountain website, they have number plates for KDX's. All colors, whatever number you want, etc. All for like $39 plus shipping.

Couldn't find it. I was wondering about a white headlight shield but haven't found that either.

Acerbis, makes the lower fork guards in black. I bought mine from Rocky Mountain MC. You must order the right and left separate.

Rocky Mountain does not have any side panels for a KDX and they don't have fork guards for all year KX's. For the 2003 KX they only have the fork guards in one color. For the 2002 and 2004 they have several choices for some reason.

Sorry, I meant to say Rocky Mountain makes the background with the numbers for KDX's. If you can't find the number plate in black maybe the background with whatever number you run will do the trick.

do you mean side panels as in the panels that go over the tank/radiator?
or by the silencer? just gota cheak as everone calls them something diffrent...

Side panels meaning the rear number plates. Not the number plate stick on backgrounds, but the ridgid plastic bolt-on parts.

alistair wrote:do you mean side panels as in the panels that go over the tank/radiator?
or by the silencer? just gota cheak as everone calls them something diffrent...

The ones attached to the tank are called radiator shrouds.

Krylon Fusion makes the side plates.

They come two to a package, one each right/left.

Part number: B-la.cK.

They make fork guards for the '023 125, too.

Different part number:

b-LAC.k.

Packaging is kind'a deceiving...about 3" in circumference and 9" or so tall.

It's all in there, though!!

Hope this helps!

canyncarvr wrote:Krylon Fusion makes the side plates.

Can't believe I fell for that

"consider the source"

That's funny. I especially like the part numbers.

That reminds me of a time we sent a new guy on an errand to go get 10' of fallopian tube. Boy was he pissed when he got back.

jc7622 wrote:That reminds me of a time we sent a new guy on an errand to go get 10' of fallopian tube. Boy was he pissed when he got back.

Fusion is good stuff. It does stick to plastics (like it says it does) and is hardy, too. It won't stand up to BraKleen or lacquer thinner..but it's pretty tough.


In the Nav..we'd send guys looking for 10' of shoreline..maybe some skyhooks, too!

You won't need to be looking for Fallopian tubes on your bike if you use Fusion...it will have already been sprayed.

Ondatrail wrote:

alistair wrote:do you mean side panels as in the panels that go over the tank/radiator?
or by the silencer? just gota cheak as everone calls them something diffrent...

The ones attached to the tank are called radiator shrouds.

thats what i call them,but i have heard them called lotsa diffrent names...so just wanted to cheak first

How well does the Krylon Fusion stuff work? If you paint something with it, does it get absorbed at all so that if it the parts gets scratched it will still be the same color that you painted it with?


I have had pretty good luck but not perfect results in using RIT dye from the store to change the guards/guides on my KX frontend from natural white to black. Boil the part on the stove in a pot of water with the dye in it. Found this way on a R/C truck site.

How well does the Krylon Fusion stuff work?

I've heard it's complete crap that doesn't stick to anything worth a damn. Besides that, even if you paint BOTH SIDES of something, it will penetrate not at all to even close to 1/2 the thickness of the material!! FROM NEITHER SIDE!!

Cheers!

I've used RIT dye too. Even on the green parts. It tends to fade after a while though. But for another 2 bits, and a pot of hot water, it's black again. It's not a shiny black though. More of a flat black. Maybe because I used some pretty trashed plastics to begin with. I don't know.

OK, so who has actually used Krylon Fusion, and did it work reasonably well? ("Reasonably well" defined here to mean minor scratches from boots didn't cause the white undercolor to show through.) Where do you find it? Our local home improvement superstore doesn't carry it.

Regular black spray paint sucks...no surprise there. If the Fusion isn't an option, I guess I'll try the Rocky Mountain decal kit. That would look better, of course, but the paint would let me color the fork guards too.

I've used fusion on plastic bike parts. It works best on parts that don't receive a lot of impact stuff, like the headlite housing. The paint will scuff off from hard impacts like rocks, brush, etc.