This isn't 800GS specific, but what do you recommend for rusting on 'impact points' on the crash bars? I've slow-speed low sided once, tipped over at a gas station once, fallen in sand four times, on rocks twice and in mud once. Electric tape? WD40? Thanks.
My bars had plenty of 'rashes', mainly from falling on sand. Like I said, light sand on bare/rusty bits, a quick touch up spray and you wouldnt notice the difference.
I'd sand and spray. I've heard some use "Bed Liner" spray to beef it up a bit. Also I picked up some hydraulic cable guard from Princess Auto. It's kinda coil like and can be added to your round bars. It's pretty robust. I have tried it and seems to work well but I have not added permanently yet as I'm about to move my LED lights up first then I'll use it to also protect my wires.
I have Adventure-Spec bars and am about to sand, use filler primer, sand again, then hit it with a semi gloss black spray
I generally lightly sand and use the black generic touch-up paint in the small tube from O'Reilly's. The color matches pretty close though the texture does not. Perhaps that is more my lack of skill with the small supplied brush. It works, no rust.
Not sure you are gaining anything with spending that much time on it. Get some Rustoleum and be done with it. You're just going to scratch them again anyway. Realistically, you could leave them alone and let them rust and it would take years to have any structural issues.
That's all I'm concerned about anyways. I don't mind showing the battle scars, but do mind shelling out another $200 anytime soon for new crash bars.
Sand or green scotch brite then a little SEM trim black - good as new. I've been through this 4 or 5 times since the bars when on.
buy the rustoleum that you paint on. not the spray can. you can get a good coat without being too worried about getting spray paint on the rest of the bike and you dont have to remove the bars. it will be faster to apply. yeah the center stand gets scrapes and starts to rust. really not a big deal. i've never heard of a center stand failing from rust like that. now, rust from the inside out (water getting inside and not draining) is another matter......
Well, they didn't have the paint-on version at Target, just the spray on. So, as you can probably guess, I got some on the bike. My impatience does me in again. How do I remove black spray from my white paint? I googled this and got numerous answers. The paint will already be dry by tomorrow. Mineral spirits? Clay bar? Acetone? You guys are life savers, or at least it seems that way.
you should have taped on some newspapers to protect the bike from spray,at least..... try using elbow grease+microfiber towel+wd40. try that first before using the harsh stuff.
