Sports: Re: [DucatiST] Crack in lower right fairing at bottom

A company in Houston has all kinds of coatings pertinent to motorcycles ad such including ceramic coatings. I used several of their coatings on an olde '76 Triumph Bonnieville and was very much impressed.

Look up PolyDyne on the internet.

Hoper

From: "bpenland@ymail.com" <bpenland@penlandgroup.com>
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, April 26, 2013 10:24:49 AM
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] Crack in lower right fairing at bottom

Tell me more about ceramic coatings & who to use for coating.

--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, "Nuske, Simon" <simon.nuske@...> wrote:
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> Hi be careful of exhaust Wrap Had a new header set done and it made the pipe brittle and fractured after only a couple of years use and had to scarp them better idea would be one of the modern ceramic coatings (looks good too)
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> Kind regards,
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> Simon Nuske
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> From: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Gooch
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2013 10:25 AM
> To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [DucatiST] Crack in lower right fairing at bottom
>
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>
> I too noticed a crack on the ride side lower this year when I pulled the
> fairing. I assumed that I had bottomed out on something somewhere along the
> line and forgotten about it. Yes, it is right in the area where the exhaust
> system is closest.
>
> I wonder if an exhaust wrap would help. At least it should lower the
> temperature in that area.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dave G
>
> PS Mine is 11 years old, so it is hard to criticize the material selection
> too much. It has held together well up to now. Also, last year was blazing
> hot, and I remember getting stuck in several traffic jams, with the rad fan
> doing its best, so the temperatures in that area may have been hotter than
> what would normally expected.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com<mailto:st2_owners%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com<mailto:st2_owners%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of Allan Stern
> Sent: April-23-13 10:34 AM
> To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com<mailto:st2_owners%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [DucatiST] Crack in lower right fairing at bottom
>
> On a different topic:
>
> I've noticed for a few years there's been a two-inch crack in the lowest
> right fairing piece, right down at the very bottom near the wellnuts. It
> hasn't gotten any worse, but when I had the whole fairing off, I took the
> piece to a nearby body shop. The guy said the plastic was so dried out
> that trying to re-glue it with more fiberglass would not hold. No sense in
> trying one of those fiberglass repair kits, either.
>
> He ended up putting a steel plate over the crack (on the inside) and putting
> in rivets from the outside to hold it together. It doesn't look that good,
> with silver rivets on the outside, but it's on the bottom of the bike so
> unless I'm leaned WAY over -- something not likely to happen with me riding
> -- nobody will ever see it. And at least the fairing piece will not fall
> apart on me.
>
> As I was putting the bike back together, though, I looked at the left
> fairing underneath and noticed there was no crack at all. Then it hit me:
> the right side is right up next to the exhaust pipe, and all that heat must
> be drying out the plastic down there and allowing the crack to happen with
> all the vibrations.
>
> This surely is a design flaw, to have the hot pipe so close to the plastic,
> so I'm wondering if others of you have had this same problem? If not,
> this is a warning to keep an eye out for cracks down there.
>
> Haven't ever seen this topic addressed in all the years of reading this
> list.
>
> Best,
>
> Allan
> '01 ST2
>
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