Fairing better
Admittedly, this is a race bike; it’s been down the road, its ground out on corners, and the gel coat white that once glistened is now weathered like an old tea towel, but there was no harm in wanting the fibreglass fairing bodywork to look as decent as it could do. Over time, it’s been subjected to all kinds of filth, and Marsh admitted bringing it back to a factory-fresh finish was up there with Carl correctly reciting the four-times table (he’s getting better). I didn’t hold up much hope, but my pro-cleaning friend had all the right products and just the right techniques to transform the look. Because the panels had been removed from the bike at the outset, it meant they were still pretty minging, laden with tyre rubber and engrained brake dust. To start their journey to purity, Marsh simply wetted them and sprayed on top a traffic film degreaser. He let it soak in before releasing his inner scrubber once more, giving the panels a damn good seeing to with a soft brush. Inside and outside, no parts of the panels were left un-turned, before blasting them off with the pressure washer. They looked a damn sight better already, and that was before Motul’s Shine & Go was brought to the fore, being applied to a cloth and worked into the gel coat. I was impressed with how decent the fairings looked once finished, and can only imagine how good a pukka painted motorcycle would glisten under the same kind of treatment.