There are wear and tear issues, from where it has had disagreements with gravity and other such moments. So aside from the alternator cover and valve covers there isn't much patina on the V11. As mentioned, plastic doesn't patina like steel and aluminum do. Īll of our motorcycles, including the V11, have some wear and tear. I'm betting your V11 "patina" could tell some stories "if it could speak". Pretty sure we are beyond, "That is not the correct vacuum tap for the 2003 V11." Or, "This V11 LeMans would be more correct with the proper and original _ " (fill in the blank). I had to admit to the "patina" and said, " There are at least three stories behind that. Ī couple weeks ago, at our local gather-up for coffee and Reubens, a fellow cocked his head and said, " Yo, docc, does that say 'nope' on your bike ?" Then, it made up it's own mind about what it wanted to be. It was becoming a line item in the scheduled maintenance. Sure, I battled with the finish on the alternator cover time after time. And if not "peculiar", at least > full of character < (like that uncle who liked to fire off his Napoleonic six-pounder and made his own whisky). And the place we are arriving with 20+ year old motorbikes that are, if not "rare", at least vastly uncommon. It reminded me of so many, er, "nuances" that I have allowed, tolerated, ignored, or surrendered to, on mySport. Reading this love(er)ly article by James Mills for Hagerty really spoke to me. "The best cars wear their stories, dents and all."
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