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Hello folks, me again!

This is proberbly old news but have you come across this site www.tastynuts.com they supply colour and titainium bolts for bikes, was going to get some red ones for the fairing/bodywork on mine

Anyway hope this may be of use to some??

Pro bolt have been around for years, they're THE name in aftermarket bolts.

If you're going to get bolt kits I would think long and hard about using aluminium bolts for anywhere that a. you may need to take on and off lots, and b. the bottom half of the faring or places that collect road crap. Aluminium bolts even though they're anodised will corrode, and the allen heads will deform if used lots. I prefer to use stainless steel bolts for the bottom half of the fairing and coloured ones for the screen, filler cap etc.

Obviously it's personal taste, if you have a silver bike stainless will suit anyway, but you may not like them with other colours.

thought that stainless into alloy was a bad idea??

my bolts are looking tired - no comments about my rusty nuts either, but when ever i take something off, it all gets cleaned and greased....

Yeah, you get dissimilar metal corrosion, you do need to be careful what you screw together and where (no jokes please)

Let's be honest though, we're all bikers and know that anything you bolt into a bike will be better than the monkey metal manufacturers use, I'm only assuming Aprilia are as guilty as the rest. I've not removed anything yet so can't say for sure they're as bad as Yamaha

While we are on the subject of bolts i am looking for replacements that hold the brake calipers together as mine are all rusted and unsightly.

I habitually replace as many of the standard nuts & bolts on my bikes with stainless in as many areas that I can. But to be honest Probolt / tasynust etc.. in my opinion are charging a fortune and basically ripping people off.

Have a look in your local yellow pages for your local bolt stockist. Remove the nuts and bolts you want replacing and take them along. My guess is that you will be pleasantly surprised at how little it costs to get stainless replacements. I use a company called B&D bolts in Batley and so far replacing about 80% of the bolts on my bimmer in stainless has come to about £10

A word of warning though, stainless although excellent for corrosion resistance is soft and shouldn't be used for high stress areas such as brake disc retaining bolts

Also bolts such as those holding on your brake cailpers are often metric fine thread. As such your local bolt stockist probably won't have these but there are loads of individual engineering companies that make them

I don't ride through winter, so couldn't comment on the problems with dissimilar corrosion but I am aware it can be problem if no anti-seize is used on assembly. Apart from areas that need torquing up fully I always put a lick of coppaslip on the bolts. To date (about 30yrs or so) I've never had a problem with replacing the crap that masquerades as fasteners on my bikes with stainless fixings

F9

There are dozens of different grades of ss with equally numerous strength and elongation values. These vary with composition and temper.

Blimey!! Whole can of worms there, still something new learnt...agian, well i am a newbie! By the way when do i qualify not to be known as a newbie??

furygan man wrote:Blimey!! Whole can of worms there, still something new learnt...agian, well i am a newbie! By the way when do i qualify not to be known as a newbie??

LOL - Newbie status doesn't really matter - everybody has something to bring to the party ...... and looking at your status, you can bring the pizza

Keep posting and that status will change to something else.
I don't remember what it goes to next or how often you have to post but it will happen and then someone else can bring us the pizzas

I have used these people before. Very quick and reliable. There is a cheaper merchant locally and as F9s says it's easy to take a fastener in and they can try and match it for you.

http://www.stagonset.co.uk