New Paint?

[PDenbigh]

I vote leave it alone. It's going to be so hard to do a good paint job on it, good enough that it's worth the effort and money that is. Leaving it stock allows you to use all the expensive R&D that Honda did to make it look "factory." Plus, when I've been looking at bikes for Alison, as soon as I see "custom paint job" I disregard it, for all the reasons listed above and because they rarely look really good, are tough, and match my taste.

On Alison's Nighthawk we got a custom paint job. While it was a good 50/50 job, the closer you got the worse it got. And it was done by a body shop with all the right tools and facilities.