payneib
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Mine uses plastic pop rivets, but being black on black I wasn't too worried about it looking out of place:
As an all year rounder myself, I don't bother with the headers at all in winter. They get polished up for Ride to the Wall in October, then the bike gets treated with ACF50, then it's only fresh water wash downs and chain scrubs until April. Trying to keep headers shiny through winter is just pointless. But once the salt is cleared from the road, I set aside a full deep clean day (we're talking maybe four hours?) for a full scrub down and polish, then it's just a weekly touch up through summer, easy.
If you're riding all year, you might want to think about some better radiator protection. The stuff flying off the front tyre in winter is horrific and I don't rate the standard plastic radiator cover at all:
As an all year rounder myself, I don't bother with the headers at all in winter. They get polished up for Ride to the Wall in October, then the bike gets treated with ACF50, then it's only fresh water wash downs and chain scrubs until April. Trying to keep headers shiny through winter is just pointless. But once the salt is cleared from the road, I set aside a full deep clean day (we're talking maybe four hours?) for a full scrub down and polish, then it's just a weekly touch up through summer, easy.
If you're riding all year, you might want to think about some better radiator protection. The stuff flying off the front tyre in winter is horrific and I don't rate the standard plastic radiator cover at all:
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