Composite is possibly a better word!

(21-01-2013, 09:01 PM)addo Wrote:  Composite is possibly a better word!

Like carbon fibre?:woop::woop:

CFRP is one type, yes. A lot of car stuff has chopped glassfibre strand in the larger bits - many slam panels for example.

(21-01-2013, 09:38 PM)addo Wrote:  CFRP is one type, yes. A lot of car stuff has chopped glassfibre strand in the larger bits - many slam panels for example.

I'm finding it difficult to wind you up,are all you Aussies unflappable?:lol:

I'm a first gen. Must be a slow learner.

As one of my Aussie mates in Melb. said to me when he got a conclusion about
a motorbike's performance arse about face "I don't think my ancestor's gene pool was
quite as deep as I thought!"

(21-01-2013, 12:09 PM)pch Wrote:  a picture explains a thousand frustrated words.

Quite so.

From one side lots of white bits:
   

But from the other pretty much black paint intact. Not sure why - maybe a previous owner parked it in intense sun always from that side or something?
   

Close ups:
   
   
   

I'd take the bars off, rub it down mask the rubber and glass then paint all the lot with some satin black acrylic aerosol. You can buy them for under £3 round here.

mines going also, not as bad and only on one of the inner ribs and being short i need steps to get up there to see it. don't propose doing any thing about it.

Yours is not an isolated case it would seem. The coating/paint is starting to deteriorate on my modutop too. Not too much of a suprise I suppose after a decades exposure to the sun and elements up above. Even though it's originally a gun metal colour, as Ffrenchie has already said, come the spring I'll be giving it a flat down, and applying a couple of good coats of acrylic satin black for protection.