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The stainless headers on my TTR are coming up for thier tenth birthday and are a light matt brown, no rust. Like ya say there are diferent grades, hopefully the pipes on the Ten will last as long.

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Originally Posted by tripletom (Post 110717)

That's what I mean, if they are a low grade stainLESS they will corrode faster than a good grade. Stainless is exactly that, it stains less than mild steel. There are many different grades and they all have different properties and, obviously, costs.
You could make a set of headers reasonably cheaply (in comparison to titanium) from 316 food grade stainless steel and they wouldn't tarnish anywhere near as much. But they would cost a lot more than the stock headers do I'll warrant.
If the OE headers were mild then they would've been rotten by now.

These are some pics of my header pipes when the bike was 6 months and 7 days old.

http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/P1000040.jpg
http://i987.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/P1000041.jpg

If this is stainless I dread to think what normal steel would be like! (my brake discs rusted a LOT less by comparison).

Granted my bike had done about 12k miles by this point including being ridden all winter.

Shucks, looks like rust to me.

Anyone tried ceramic coating?

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Originally Posted by deiaccord (Post 110748)

I can't see any difference between the 7 day old photo's and the 6 month old photo's?

My 5 day old discs...

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...s/IMG_1612.jpg

They're steel, they will rust.

To Skunkmoto, I've not had ceramic coating on exhausts, but I have had it done on engine components. Camcoat- http://www.camcoat.u-net.com/Exhausts.htm get heavily recommended. Could be worth a thought.

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Originally Posted by chrisg333 (Post 110753)

I can't see any difference between the 7 day old photo's and the 6 month old photo's?

That's coz it's a total of 6 months and 7 days ya muppet ! :) (bought 7th November 08, pic taken 14 April 09)

Tripletom. My discs did that (in winter) when I got the bike but it did not get any worse. The braking surface area itself however was generally clean as the bike is used 5 days a week but would look like that (or slightly worse) after a weekend.

Wonky, I have just been to your site and I notice that the prices shown in the Latest Shop Items

have to have VAT add to them, which comes has a bit of a shocker I thought the hand guards were �69.56 but when I went to buy the 15% vat was not included in that price. :cry[1]:

I am guessing it is because you export alot of your stuff.

I hope you had a good time at the Dirtbike show

Rick

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Originally Posted by deiaccord (Post 110755)

OOOF........ My bad.......... :)

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Originally Posted by wonky (Post 110446)

pegs and bash plate should be within the month. Id like to think we can get an e-marked pipe sorted in the same time

chris

Must be getting close now then! :thumbsup[1]:

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Originally Posted by banksy (Post 113042)

Must be getting close now then! :thumbsup[1]:

Just like a kid waiting for xmas :p