It's a really deep blue metallic although it does look black in the pics. I swapped the easier access plugs around after I decided it was only running on one cylinder and it popped a couple times but was good after that, definitely needs to be gone through with oil change fresh fuel etc etc. she spent a good long time in a storage locker and only has 13,000km on it. I have a bunch of spare parts too, motor, plastics, seat, gauges, rad and this goes on. The muffler is a two brothers racing piece.