[QUOTE] It also gets covered in tree sap at home and at And people will insist on saying that Kwaks are made from nothing more than knob-cheese.[/QUOTE] The nuts and bolts appear to be. [QUOTE] Well, apart from the down-pipes No anti corrosion shite in the world will help there, but if I lived in your area and had to leave the bike outside, I'd still dose it up with summat and ACF 50 is bloody effective.[/QUOTE] Will lard do? [QUOTE] Obviously, it loves you or it thrives on neglect.[/QUOTE] It's not neglected by any means. It gets serviced by professionals as often as the manual demands and when something goes wrong it gets fixed, properly. Every so often it gets inverted, but it still works. Apart from the clocks, obviously.