How funny is this, a few years back Phil and I rebuilt a ZXR250C, we gave the panels and tank to Bob from Ace of Sprays and gave him free reign on a paint job, the outcome was a killer black and green paint job. I was checking eBay and this one showed up in my feed, its a company in Hong Kong selling fairings and are using my bike and Bob's work to sell repo fairings. LMAO @paint-your-ride @Phil http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ABS-Fair...rcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item43d2569191
They do it to everybody... China does have a reputation of copying heaps of stuff, but not for creating much. Dan Sherwood, from ozcbr250.com designed a very nice track fairing kit and put on his bike. Now, that scheme is up for sale everywhere on eBay and off eBay, by Chinese and Australian sellers as well.
Un fortunatly there is no law against using other peoples ideas (ie paint schemes-logos etc) un less you put a patant no on it which costs to much and the legal fees associated with copy-write laws.I now it sucks when some one steals your own personel touch.May be you could get in touch with them and bluff them into legal action or take pride that all the world can see your work of art...Ken
Hey Ken I would argue the legal side, I am the "artist" and I can assert copyright on these images for a period of 75 years, the international boundary does throw a spanner in the works when trying to enforce it. I am not worried about the seller using them, to be honest I am flattered, but what cracks me up is that these are genuine Kawasaki panels that were painted by a talented spray painter that this seller is trying to offer up as examples of repo panels. priceless. Im going to contact the seller and see if I can wrangle a freebie Chris
Remember that bike well, also remember the photo's being taken. What can you say, the merchant in Hong Kong has very good taste.
I received a reply fro the seller, not sure if he is offering me the gaskets or a photo of them ? at any rate, I copied his images, its tit for tat
the sneaky chinks nicking my paintwork now does this mean il have to work for a bowl of rice now that must be a pay rise lol
