OK, I'll ask beforehand to see what they have - a lot of the fairings will have headlight cut-outs as they're used for Endurance Racing (but these can be filled in easily enough), they'll be painted a nice mix of Royal Blue, White and Fluoro Orange, as will the seat units. They've probably sold off all the standard tanks, and you wouldn't want (nor be able to afford) a 24lt. Endurance jobbie. The bodywork is super light carbon-kevlar stuff, the cheaper items may be a little, er, second hand :THIS LINK will give an idea of the existing colour schemes
Why paint the bike black? It won't stand out amongst all the other black ones out there so if anyone's watching (mates, partner, other buddies riding in different groups) they'll spend half their time looking at the wrong bike! I know, I've been to a few trackdays with Basil and differentiating one black bike/black leathers combo from the others isn't easy! :-/
