The VFR has some stone-chip damage on her nose.<\/p>\n
It is not serious, but it is there and it will, inevitably, cause flaking, over time.<\/p>\n
The Daytona has a little minor paint damage too, on the leading edge of the pillion cover. The mark looks like it’s been caused by the previous owner’s\u00a0leather-clad backside, rubbing in the saddle. The mark has been touched up, but been done so badly it looks worse than it probably did before.<\/p>\n
I called a local company – one of those ‘chips be gone’ or what have you – and asked if they did bikes.<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
But they knew a man who does!<\/p>\n
He toddled round on Sunday, looked at the damage, gave me a price and went off to see if he can get hold of the appropriate paints.<\/p>\n
The thing about paint damage is not so much that it looks like a cosmetic blemish, it’s that our inclement weather will get underneath the flecks, and start to lift greater areas of previously undamaged paint away from the bodywork.<\/p>\n
This is true of cars, as well as bikes.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it’s a case of waiting and seeing now. But if this works, I’m going to trundle the bikes down to his workshop and he’ll make them both look perfect again.<\/p>\n
He asked what colour I would describe the Daytona.<\/p>\n
‘Offensively yellow’, I replied.<\/p>\n
Oh, how he laughed.<\/p>\n
No, he did, really.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the day before the paint guy came, the Daytona and I went to London.<\/p>\n
These are some of the things we saw:<\/p>\n