Maverick: Details

As described in my previous post, the paint design was intended to reflect aircraft of an earlier era. This meant that it had to be done by hand, with air-brush artwork. The design was done by Brand Launch Solutions and the painting by Paintrikz.

The seat is the standard R18 seat and was re-trimmed to create a "Bomber jacket" look, which I combined with Top Gun patches - for me the R18 is BMW's "Top Gun". That's also why the custom number plate is "F18" and not "R18".

We replaced the standard "1800" engine plate with a customized name plate "Maverick". This was done by "Iconic Moto" in KZN.

And the exhaust was made by my favorite custom exhaust builder, Dominator Exhausts. It was then ceramic-coated in black by Powerkote, complete from the headers to the slip-on. It has so far has proven to handle the heat well (without discoloration or peeling) but I'll be keeping an eye on it (especially the headers) and report on it in a future blog.

.... and it sounds great...