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Title: Tank protection
Post by: Looney tune on 16 February 2012, 01:06:44 pm

Hi all,
What are your views on baglux/bagster tank covers. Are they best removed when you wash your bike? are they bad for holding moisture in ?
Looks ?
My bike is a black FZ1N.
Is there anything else you would recommend for tank protection ?
 
Thanks in advance to any advice given,
Russ

Title: Re: Tank protection
Post by: Ghoti on 16 February 2012, 03:21:07 pm

Baglux recomends tank covers are treated with a waterproofer, which helps avoid the moisture problem.  I give the cover a decent treatment a couple of times a year (and a clean too), otherwise a quick spray down the seams when I wash the bike. 

I put a layer of polish on the tank and don't buff it off a couple of times a year too.  The base of the harness is fairly soft so, if that is kept clean, it wont scratch your tank.

When you say "Is there anything else you would recomend for tank protection", do you mean just tank protection or protection from a Baglux harness?
If you just want protection and not a way to carry a bag, the only areas of the tank that will get scuffed are where bit rub against it (like knees or your bits!), why not try http://www.invisiblepatterns.co.uk/paint-protection-film-yamaha.html (http://www.invisiblepatterns.co.uk/paint-protection-film-yamaha.html) or similar.  Tank kit covers zip and knee area.  You wont need the full kit, but this will stop stone chips in the fairing and lights too.  The kit is almost invisable.

If you want to funk up the looks, MotoGrafix do a similar stick on kit with funky colour scheme (or they do for the Fazer, so I guess they do the FZ1 too).

Title: Re: Tank protection
Post by: Aegis Bearing Mel on 18 February 2012, 12:50:27 pm

Russ, I've got the Baglux cover on 'Bee, the tank is the only clean part on her!
:rollin

Well worth fitting imho, you've seen how badly I treat her but that wee cover is superb.
Also dead handy for sticking a cargo net on for carrying wee things from the shop, saves faffing about with luggage.

Title: Re: Tank protection
Post by: fazer6868 on 19 February 2012, 06:19:10 pm

have used baglux for donkeys years and on my gen 1 for 132k.
 
tank like new..all i do is brush any grit and crap off the inside when i need to take it off( say twice a year) and give the tank a quick polish