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When I return home from a trip or when leaving for a trip I always try to wash n polish the bike . . . . as ya do!
Well, I wanna know, is it just me . . . . Or wot?

Do YOU get the shits when you find more chips in the paintwork, new ones and pretty good ones at that ..... Grrrrr far out thats annoying

I justify it tho . . . . and take comfort in the fact that it means I'M RIDING !!!

You becoming a GOW ?

Yeah, it shits me too. I have a lot of stone chips on the headlights. I've thought about replacing them (especially now I have most of the bike spruced up a little and I'm getting more done), but on the other hand, they'll just get chips again, as the bike is ridden, not left in the garage.

So I get what you're saying, but I reckon it's just one of those things that happen when you're a rider (as opposed to a coffee shop poser), so think of the chips as proof of your hardcore-ness

I'm always too tired to clean the bike straight away. I'm lucky to get everything put away.

Stone chips are unavoidable if you use them. Just think of them as street cred.

Cath wrote: so think of the chips as proof of your hardcore-ness

Personally, I think of more chips as an oppertunity to add more stickers to the bike

Always being the optimist

yeah i am the same, i like to clean it asap, i usually leave it tho for the next day or a time when i can focus on doing it properly!

With the stone chips, well thats life and happens to everyone!

I don't have time to clean mine - and next time it comes out of the shed I'm off riding again. I figure the dirt is covering the stonechips.

Anyway, when the chips start to join up I'll just repaint it.

Mine got a wash when it rained
... so I didn't notice the stone chips

Mine has been washed twice this year!! It's been spoiled, and yes, stone chips are alas unavoidable.

I wash and polish mine weekly
I even get in the nooks with a toothbrush
Stone chips?, what stone chips? I have selective blindness

if you dont like it dont ride..It is part of the hard that most never see mate, just HTFU and wear it ffs.

Seriously get past it and become hard core, if your getting chips you have to be at least following well and you should be getting closer

'Light Skinz' are the go re headlight/s Robyn .... Even the eeeny weeeny gumby ones on mine that nothing else works on!?

+1 on the dirt hiding stone chips

Your lucky you still have the factory paint I have never seen an aftermarket paint job thats as tough as the factory stuff. Both my bikes are peppered