Ok, I looked thru all of the F3 pictures on the pic thread and saw only two bikes that have done this and SO many bikes would benefit from this procedure.

Paint your engine cover semi-gloss black.

It hides any scrapes and scratches and makes the bike look years newer.

What you need to do:

1. Remove your left lower fairing
2. cut a hole in a piece of cardboard the shape of your engine cover
3. spray black semi-gloss spray paint on the cover - probably give it a couple coats (let dry between coats) - try not to let any overspray hit any part of bike
4. Let dry and put your fairing back on

Any bike can benefit from this in my opinion. I saved this cardboard cutout and have done at least 4 bikes with it.

 

What a good idea. I need to do this to mine, the ding don't that had it before me dropped it and scraped it all up...

 

looking at this, looks great. i have light scrapes on mine as well.

 

Did u sand the scratches out or just paint it? Is the cover aluminium? Can it be polished?

 

I just painted over mine - it was ground down pretty good and you can barely tell unless you are right up next to it.

 

I need to do something like this.

 

i sanded all the paint off my cases, long process and then polished it looks like a million bucks! i did this to my cylders and valve cover and polished everything . looks amzing