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I know this is a very common bike, but I had to share. I really admire all the other ones I see out there. 
I have owned the bike for many years and really only just stored it. The bike is a pretty clean survivor. I bought the bike with the shox but just picked up the swingarm. Been looking for a long time. I also picked up a set of Fox Forx with the Honda clamps& stem. Hopefully I will have them installed in the next month or 2.
I have owned the bike for many years and really only just stored it. The bike is a pretty clean survivor. I bought the bike with the shox but just picked up the swingarm. Been looking for a long time. I also picked up a set of Fox Forx with the Honda clamps& stem. Hopefully I will have them installed in the next month or 2.
This bike came along in the early 00's. It was to clean of a bike to pass up, all there (pretty much)! I bought it and later sold the other bike, wish I would have kept it.
I bought and raced YZ's and a Maico. Never wanted to race this bike, trying to save it guess?. I never even worked on it until yesterday. When I get the Fox Forx on it, I will be taking it out to the track for a few laps. However, before that happens I have a 2 other bikes that have to get done first.
The Shop
mike
And, thank you.
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I don't know if you have any direct experience with this technique, and I can only go by my own direct experience, but I don't think your comment is correct at all.
The technique is pure genius. You heat some glue with a glue gun, select the right size and shape puller tab, put the hot glue on the tab and apply to the dent, use the puller tool and gently pull up until the dent either pops or the metal is at the right height. They you remove the puller and pour a little isopropyl alcohol on the tab stuck to the metal which causes the glue to instantly release. Done in 5 minutes!
The more techniques you learn, the quicker and the better you can pull various dents, but you would have to be a total half-wit not to be able to remove most small dents perfectly... and almost all at least nearly undetectable.
I believe your comment "there is absolutely no way it is easy to remove them so they are undetectable" is very much misguiding the OP.
Here is an example of a typical kit like I bought on ebay....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Full-Paintless-Dent-Repair-Puller-Lifter-PDR-T…
And I believe it is your comment that is "misguiding" the op to some degree, which is why I made the comment I did. I am not saying that your suggestion for the op to try to remove the dent by themself with a paintless dent removal kit is "bad", it is just misleading to some degree to try and make them believe it is "easy" to get the dent out so it is undetectable. What is undetectable to one person is sometimes still detectable to another
"nearly perfect."
"nearly perfect" is not "perfect", therefore, if the op is not able to get the dent out to their level of satisfaction, they will have to have someone else do it anyway, which might include the use of body filler, and this is after the op just spent $177.89 on the kit you suggested which is likely less then it would cost them to pay someone else to remove it, and remove it to a point where it really is undetectable by anyone that looks at it.
"The more techniques you learn, the quicker and the better you can pull various dents"
This statement is accurate and somewhat contradicts your previous statements about it being "easy" to remove dents and "perfectly". Everything I can think of, including walking, is an acquired skill and their is a learning "curve".
"I don't know if you have any direct experience with this technique,"
I do have knowledge of this kit and the other type of paintless dent removal tools. I repaired and restored vintage muscle cars for 45 years, and have done Concours type restorations on some of them, and some of the cars I restored sold for world record prices at Barrett Jackson. During this time I have done some paint and body work (dent removal etc) myself, however, there are others that are far more skilled at it then I am so I had them do the majority of it so I could also work on other things while most of the body repair was being done. Anyway, thru this process, I have worked with several different paintless dent removal specialists that had several years of experience, and some were better than others, but not a single one of them could remove a dent to the point where it was 100% undetectable to my eye. This is not to say that that the remainder of the dent was still blatantly obvious or unacceptable, and in the majority of the cases, it was acceptable for my goal, however, it was still not "perfect".
I don't think you intentionally misguided the OP, but I think you may have if I can do it so many times successfully with no real auto body experience while you are pretty much saying it is not possible. As you said "not a single one" which is quite pessimistic. There are no guarantees in life that every situation will work out perfectly, but my success rate had been quite high.. one the best home tools I have bought and had paid for itself many times over.
mike
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