Painting my frame black, is it a cool idea?

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  1. Captain 80s

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    I'm a little confused. It is so damn hot there, you are concerned about the heat difference just from a different frame color. But routing the exhaust right under your seat is not worth consideration?

    Seems like it should have gone like this...


    Under seat exhaust, is it a cool idea?

    I'm considering routing my exhaust right under my seat. My bike gets extremely hot and I live in a hot country and I'm concerned about heat dissipation. I've done some research and opinon seems to go both ways. The fourth generation bike does get very hot and I'm worried about making any impact on the functionality of my bike.
    Does anyone have any insights?


    I look forward to some better pics.
     


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    OK, I don't care about me getting hot, I care about damaging my bike. Routing the exhaust adds length to the pipe and arguable increases torque performance, but it looks great, to me, and that's what I wanted. Coating the frame may have caused a mechanical issue, but I had already ruled it out by discussing it with several professionals so it became a non-issue. The point of this is to make my motorcycle how I want it, and this is how I want it. The heat generated and radiated from the pipe is actually no problem, if it was, it would have melted the plastics on the side, and it didn't. The bigger problem now is going from here to how I want the bike to look. The whole fairing is going to be replaced with custom made parts that I'm forming from ABS stock sheet. That's pretty scary, to have a pile of plastic and no fairing.
     
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