CBR600F - black touch up on handle bars

Just been searching the archive of this group for a recommended black touch
up paint (or otherwise) to touch up the handle bars of my CBR600F where the
previous owner must of had a key dangling from the bike key. But I couldn't
find any suggestions, apart from TOG's Top Tip [1] but I want something more
permanent than that! Any ideas?

Also whilst we're at it, one edge of the swing arm has had it's surface
flaked off and is beginning to turn brown with rust. Any ideas for this?

Ta.

[1] "Top tip - black indelible marker to touch in frame paint. Doesn't leave
a blob like touch-up paint, is as near as all hell totally undetectable,
and wears off in three weeks, but so what?"


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Here's a top tip:

Get outside with yer torch, strap a tent on, and head on down to the EOSM
at the same place you managed to get to the weekend you bought it.
I'll meet you there with me pot of Black Smoothrite.

HTH

 

I hazard that you don't mean handlebar as such, but the top surface of
the top yoke - the flat area around the ignition switch. You can buy
model-specific covers for this area in <spit> carbon-fibre lookalike,
or a variety of coloured plastics - or make your own with sticky
backed plastic. Get down, Shep.

Wirebrush off the loose stuff and Hammerite it.

 

Aye that's the one.

I'll check my local halfords and a few other bike stores see if they have
any, thanks.

I had to google on Hammerite, never heard of it. This about right?
http://www.hammerite-automotive.com/ What would be the end result on the
swing arm?


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Tallbloke, are you getting confused again?

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Are you or are you not the Geezer who rode his shiny CBR600 down from
Scotland to The Black Horse a year or so back (BOSM 2003?) and stayed in
Fio's tent after she binned her CX500?

I'm prolly confused again. Where's me meds?

 

That's the stuff.

Halfrauds sell it

 

Here's an example:
http://websites.uk-plc.net/Buy_It_For_Your_Bike_com/products/HONDA_YOKE_PROTECTOR.htm

If you use Smoothrite, which is a smooth finish version of the
original "hammered finish" (imagine loads of tiny dents in the paint,
looking as if it had been tapped many times with a hammer) the it will
look OK. I suggested it because Hammerite products are designed to go
over rusty surfaces without the need for a primer and they will then
suppress the rust. It won't look as good as the original (unless you
take the swingarm off the bike and spray it on), but much better than
a rusty swingarm.

 

That was Donald Deasy, I believe. We've done this before, haven't we?

You prolly are. The meds are in the beer pump, as usual.

 

Aaaah. Cheers M'dear. Sorry Dundonald, please sell your CBR and buy my
Triton so I won't get confused in future.

 

No mate and I definately didn't sleep in no bird's tent!

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Yes I think we have Pip. Poor tallbloke.

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No problem.

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Nice one Pip, thanks.

I'll check halfords for either one too. Once again, cheers.

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Excellent. Cheque will be fine. When would you like to collect?

 

Another closet door creaking?

 

heh. I thought that too.

 

I hasten to add that Fio didn't sleep in the tent that night as the
bruising from the off precluded the possibility of lying down in comfort
on the ground.

 

tallbloke says...

If you're not going to be there on the day, will you help with his
additional costs when he's re-arranging travel?

 

LOL!

Cnut