Looks like I'll be getting a Black one with ARH and cast wheels unless the sale of a Gray with spokes and ARH falls through tomorrow. The Black one is in shipment to dealer right now.
Probably will be better off with the cast wheels anyway.

 

Cast wheels are easier to clean

 

You wanna clean the wheels on my Ultra? LOL

 

Been there done that...pain in the *** cleaning the rear wheels on a bagger

 

The rear wheel gets cleaned when I get a new tire. LOL!

 

Congrats to you for answering my question on the tip-over protection of that crash bar. Glad to know it worked well. And that is pretty good riding to be able to do full lock figure eights. I am envious. Nice to know that it can also be picked up without help. AS for the scratches on the case, you're probably going to get them when off-road riding anyway...I wouldn't worry about it too much. After all, it's an ADV bike, not a show bike.

 

I have dropped mine several times now, gravel and asphalt, screwing around at slow speed. I have the plastic sport bags, and the sides of both got scratched up with some pretty deep gouging into the surface.
I like keeping the bags on when I am doing that stuff, as they protect the rest of the bike pretty good when you go down, but didnot want my side bags looking like crap from the dropps.
I purchased a quart of black truck liner paint on material, it makes a rough service when dried, thought about orange ( white fairing orange tank ) but figured the orange color would stand out too much.
I mask off the sides of both bags, not the entire case just the area surrounding the scratching, used a paint brush and applied it.
It blends in to the cases, and to me at least came out really looking pretty good, it is an adventure bike, the rough texture fits the bike look.
The advantage is when I do it again, and I will, the material is easy enough to paint a little more over the new scrapes.
Because the cases are plastic I needed to do a little pre-application work, some heavy sanding followed by a solvent, but doing this method, the material is is suppose to not peel off the plastic, time will tell on this. It has been about 2 weeks and no signs it is trying to lift off the plastic.

 

How about getting the lower part done with Line-X

 

I looked at Line-x and a few others, not sure about the plastic adhesion. Did a search and found Durabak . The claim is it sticks to plastic, I read many reviews where folks used it in marine settings, on fiberglass and plastic and a bunch of people that used it on 4 x4 vehicles on plastic fenders etc. and Durabak is the only one I found that provides good instructions on how to apply to plastic.
All the reviewers said they had great results, no peeling, holding up to uv from the sun and water.
And it is a do it your self product. They have a spray version if you want to go with that, or a paint brush/roller version which I used.
Very spendy though, I used maybe an 1/8 of a quart can, and sealed up the rest hoping it will last a while and not dry out if I need some more for " fixing " new oops in the future. Shelf life in the can is listed at about a year. They dont sell less than a quart so stuck with buying the larger amount I did not need for my small project.

 

Any pics?