I'll see if I can take a few closer snaps of the swing arm covers. The problem you have with them is they are done from moulds taken directly from the swing arm so they are an absolute exact fit. In short this means that anything, be it a bead of silicone adhesive or some fairly thin high strength trim tape ends up with the carbon cover sitting "proud" at one end or the other of the swing arm when its fitted. Kinda hard to explain. It's like you can get it to stick perfectly at one end but as a result, it will pop off slightly at the other. Try then to apply pressure to the end that has just popped off and eventually the other end that was previously sitting on ok, pops off. This was despite fitting them then taping them up tight with masking tape and leaving them overnight so pressure was applied to them for a fairly long period of time. In the morning about 10 mins after the masking tape was removed, one end of the cover started coming away from the swing arm. Frustrating isn't the word.
What I ended up doing to my offside one was using number plate adhesive fixing blocks which are about 5-6mm thick. This means that the cover will stick on perfectly level and uniform along its entire length and only sits proud off the surface of the swing arm by a couple of mm. Looks much better. My nearside one is still stuck on using the first method I tried, I've still to remove it and do it properly with the 5-6mm fixers on that side. As I said, I'll try and get a few pics to explain it a bit better.
There are swing arm covers which fit on not only with adhesive of your choosing but with one screw at the chain guard/shock end and a sort of metal retaining strap which goes around the inside of the swing arm. I had one of these a few years back manufactured by a company called CarboTek. It was a much better thought out solution and also incorporated a chain guard/sharks fin on the lower run. However, I removed it at one point to clean the swing arm during a pre-summer overhaul and when I refitted it I didn't for some unknown reason, use any silicone in conjunction with the small screw and retaining strap. As a result of some *ahem* over enthusiastic riding it blew off one day on my way home from work and shattered into a million bits, what was left of it ended up on the central reservation.
The only pics I have of the bike with the offside carbon guard fitted, I'll grab some closer ones :-
The older CarboTek one from a few years ago :-
The other downside that was quite surprising given that carbon fibre is supposedly fairly resistant to heat was that the temp from my Renegades has wrecked the surface laquer where the exhaust pipes run closest to the swing arm. It's done the same to the leading edges nearest the shock on my carbon rear hugger. The damage is fairly hidden away from the eyes as it is sat under the exhaust but its still rather annoying.
