Not to my knowledge.  Should be good to go!

Depending on the wrap, most notable, it will turn the chrome blue.  So going w/o wrap later will require blue job or other measures.

Next on the list, some wrap will collect moisture causing the header to rust.

I sprayed hi temp paint after wrapping mine, after a while the wrap looks dirty, I just take the pipe off and spray it again.

ugly is in the eye of the beholder. As far as corrosion...its easy to paint the header with high temp paint before you wrap it.

Yes, ugly is in the eye of the beholder.

My initial assessment seems to be correct.   The poser mindset is at work here in that the wrap is done for cosmetics, not for performance.

The wrap, done for these reasons, conflicts with the basic reason for existence of the CS-1.  The Cafe Racer concept is about performance.  The wrap does nothing for performance; it merely changes the appearance with a visual statement: the owner likes to gorp up the bike with things that add weight, cost, corrosion, maintenance, and complication,..... all for the sake of cosmetics.  The poser mindset.  

That said, I have no problem at all what anyone wants to do with their bike.  If someone wants to add foxtails, exhaust wrap, fishtail mufflers, and under-the-frame-purple-fluorescent lights to his "cafe racer," it makes no never mind to me.  It's just hard for me to blend in the gorp with the owner's interpretation of the cafe racer look.

BTW, putting heat resistant paint under the wrap will do nothing to forestall corrosion.  In fact, it might speed it up.

Please,... use all the wrap you want.  The wrapmakers will be happy.  More jobs, more revenue,... help the economy recover.  Make your bike look like,.... well,... a bike with exhaust wrap.

Just don't labor under any misconceptions about how it adds to performance, let alone a performance image true to the cafe racer concept.

Demin wrote on 03/10/11 at 05:18:35:


My definition is someone whose main reason for being into something (whatever it is) is so other people will think he's cool.

MotoBuddha wrote on 03/10/11 at 05:32:49:



MotoBuddha, I agree.  I was standing the Buell test ride line at Daytona a few years ago when in the conversation behind me I overheard this statement:  "Posers are people who think everyone will look at them and think they are cool."  He moaned about costumes (required uniforms like denim and studded black leather, etc.), obscenely loud exhaust systems, hundreds of pounds of bling, refusal to wave back to other-than-harley riders, and so on.  His interpretation was that posers are the opposite of real motorcyclists.