Here's a couple of pictures to give you an idea of the general condition of the bike under the fairings
Having the front stand makes it immeasurably easier to get the front wheel cleaned, and even better with the mudguard off and the fairings off. Autoglym wheel cleaner is very good. Wouldn't want to be doing it every week though. Which is why I haven't...
While I had the radiator guard off I took the opportunity to give that a good clean. Having used an old paintbrush to get in and clean all the little openings it occurred to me I could use a paintbrush to get some rubber bumper gel in there after cleaning and considerably improve the appearance. That worked. Annoyingly the guard would not fit snugly back into the top of the radiator, maybe it had expanded slightly in the sun as its a pretty snug fit, or maybe it didn't fit anyway and I just didn't notice during dismantling.
Starting to lose paint around the odd bolt hole. Also losing the lacquer here and there off things like the front mudguard and the belly pan
This is the worst bit, on the inside of the front right fairing for some reason. Might be a dodgy paint job, the piece on the lefthand side is fine.
No bolts or fixings were harmed or lost during the making of this post, surprisingly. Would like to know which bit of precision design and production engineering caused some of the fairing fixings to be T25 and some T27. When I came in SWMBO condemned the clothes I was wearing and said they are going in the bin. Bike must be properly clean then....