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Small difference in performance, big difference in pocket savings when you never have to replace it again.

Bike looks good though - what fork gaiters did you use? I've got some old style rubber ones on mine, but after less than a summer of UV exposure they've fallen apart. I like all the small details being black - pegs front and rear, but I'm surprised you didn't do your swingarm at the same time? I've done mine and it looks much better. (powdercoated or painted btw?)

Thanks.
I used some Acerbis motorcross neoprene gaiters. Cut them in half to cover top and bottom, stretched and secured with jubilee clips and cable ties.

The pegs etc are just spray canned black. Powder coating costs money i don't have, but would very much like to do the swingarm. I imagine it'll take a few days to get a good coat of primer on there, then there's the several thick coats of paint, then several of lacquer to seal it all in.

Or maybe i could just primer and coat it in VHT black, though i'm also thinking of doing it a matching grey, which i also want to use to paint the cylinder head covers, but that requires a new gasket which is about £30. One option is to buy a spare swingarm, paint that and then just swap it out. It'd certainly keep my bike on the road, and given that it's my only transport, that's a good thing.

Also: Time of year. If i do it now, it'll only get ruined over winter. Very much want to do it, though, so will have to wait until spring. It'll be around that time i'll also get the paint work buffed professionally as well as adding yamaha decals and getting some more lacquer on there to really finish it off.

I'm also tempted to get some C&C'd foot pegs (silver, maybe) front and rear, and some matching grips. But that's all cosmetics, and i have a large list of that stuff... Here's a rough collection of the cosmetics on ebay, and another of other items i'm thinking of. Nothing is set as yet, and some are just there as place-holders. It's all part of the plan to get the bike finished to a standard i'm happy with and before the start of next summer, with luck money.