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hi all again, got my hands on a rsv swingarm, problem is it has the usual exhaust ding, and its pretty bad, i know theres carbon covers that could be put on, but, i aint paying over £100 for them. anybody else have any ideas? would carbon wrap work over it? any ideas welcome.

Hi all,

Have you got an alley engineering works near you at all? I had a ding on mine, took it to them, they welded some alley into it I then set about filling and sanding it down. Then it polished up, all's well and then promptly powder coated it

what colour did you go with? was it dark? wanted to keep swingarm silver to match frame, but it is a good idea, i'm sure i could find somewhere to get it done.

Hi all,

I went with gold to match my gold rims

Mine had the dink in it too. The place I took it to did a brilliant job. They drilled a small hole behind it and from the inside, knocked it out to it's original shape - you just couldn't see that it had ever been dented. Then they welded up the hole they had drilled.
After that I had it powder coated - which looked great.

However, after a while, I found that the Muck Off cleaner I was using attacked the finish of the powder coating and it became very matt.
The easiest solution was to pop on some of those carbon covers .... which I won on ebay (for a little bit more than I hoped to pay).
I am really pleased with them - they do look good.

might hold out till i find a cheap set of carbon covers on fleabay, in mean time i'll take it and see if anybody can do anythin with it. dont really wanna powdercoat it. just wanted it nicely polished.

If you can get it knocked out like mine, then it should polish up nicely.
I guess the difficulty is finding someone to do it that you can be sure can knock it out without any tell-tales.

i'll look into it, this one is pretty badly dinged.

have alook at falco9's that what you call polished, you could hang it on the wall.

yeah seen it, very shiney!!! not overly keen on the mirrored look, but he has spent alot of time on it!!

oh oh another question is do i need a special tool for the nut on the swingarm pivot pin? its like a 4 prong socket?

Yes .... Aprilia has a special tool .... not cheap.


.......... so it's just as well that the Shimano Freewheel tool fits (about a fiver - got mine from Halfords but I think most cycle shops do them)

Hi all,

Yes D-Rider, I got mine from halfords as well Works a treat as well...

Hope you get it sorted Rooster

lovely, i'll be in halfords 2morro then, just saved me a few quid! cheers for tips guys!