What have you done to your Himalayan 452 today or recently.

[Pickaxe]

Fitted Givi hand guards prior to a trip to Scotland and a wet weather forecast. The Givi items are expensive for what they are. However, they were very easy to fit and look unobtrusive on the bike. Probably not suitable for hardcore off roading as they're all plastic and without a metal strengthening bar.

 

[Vimto]

Wet weather forecast for Scotland? Nah mate shorts and wife beater you'll be aight.

 

[Scott Free]

Today I undid something on my Himalayan. Several weeks back, I installed a set of Harbor Freight imitation Pelican cases on my bike. Today I took them off. I liked the convenience of hard cases, but they just didn't work as well as I had expected. They were at once too wide and too narrow--too wide on the outside (making parking the bike in the garage inconvenient) and too narrow on the inside (a lot of things just barely fit or didn't fit at all). Plus, they added 16 pounds (empty) to the bike, all behind the center stand, making it extremely difficult to put the bike up on the stand... something that's kinda necessary for parking the bike in my garage. So they went away. I kept a small part of the mounting (in the process replacing a steel piece with an aluminum one that is at least probably lighter) to keep my trusty Ortlieb dry bags out of the wheel and hanging properly. I will now have to figure out just how to pack stuff for travel (the Ortliebs are not easy to get into once sealed up; that's the price of the roll-top closure), but the bike feels much less bulky and clumsy, and getting it on the center stand is again a piece of cake.

 

[Lachie04]

Had a dent in my tank finally fixed so thought I'd take the opportunity to repaint (from Gammet white)

 

[Dervish]

Installed the Fuel xpro+ and dna filer+cover to my himmy earlier this week.
Today was the first proper test drive, 3.5 hours, 200km+ of bendy roads in the rain.

I like it, made the bike somehow easier to drive on the bendy roads, and it goes way too easily to 100km/h

Also have the aew decat+muffler and mitas enduro trail adv 2 tires.

 

[JB_rides]

Had a dent in my tank finally fixed so thought I'd take the opportunity to repaint (from Gammet white)

Looks great! How was it to remove the original stickers?

 

[Scott Free]

Had a dent in my tank finally fixed so thought I'd take the opportunity to repaint (from Gammet white)

That is quite attractive. One of the things that disappoints me about the 450 is the color choices. The 350s, the Twins, and even the 411 (after the first few years, when you choices were black, white, and dazzle-camo gray stickers) had such a wide choice of colors. So does the Guerrilla. But the Himalayan remains available only in beige ("Kaza Brown," which to me looks like a 1980s-vintage PC housing), gray, black and white. It's a pretty monochromatic palette. That blue is really nice.

 

[Lachie04]

Looks great! How was it to remove the original stickers?

To remove the stickers was easy just with a hot air gun but they leave a gum residue and ridges around the edges so unless your preping the whole tank you'd need to sand down the ridges. But easy to remove

 

[Origineelreclamebord]

To remove the stickers was easy just with a hot air gun but they leave a gum residue and ridges around the edges so unless your preping the whole tank you'd need to sand down the ridges. But easy to remove

So they were not underneith the clear coat? Because that was the case with my the black bars/stripes on the side covers (below the seat) of my Kaza Brown bike. So my bike now features two glossy beige patches - woops!