After looking at the competition, I don't think my bike is deserving enough to even try for most improved, but still, I'm proud of what I accomplished.
I wanted to make the bike over into a sort of monochrome thing, hence I went for silver decals on black. In keeping with my goal, I processed the color image into a black & white version to give up that last vestige of color (turn signals & tail lamp). The larger B&W image was taken at the beach on 8/5/2012, and the inset is what it looked like in my garage on 4/8/2012.