dechroming my bike

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for the head cover they are just a plastic cover for "show" over the actual head cover

all you gotta do is remove the spark plug wire, disconnect the vaccum hose and undo the bolts, 10mm if i remember correctly

the front one will come off really easily,
for the rear one, the wiring harness gets in the way a little, but with some time and patience it comes out and goes back in without scratching it (i scratched mine once it was in as i dropepd the bolt on it)

the best way for the rear cover is to rotate it 90 degrees and then slide it to the rear and side at the same time, opposite way to put them back on

[trempus]

as far as the paint goes, i just used the cheapest rattle can i could find, 2 or 3$ from wal-mart
i didn't do any scuffing, i did 4000km and it still look great