[jw130270]

From all of the available outdoor motorcycle full covers, I see full covers which are priced from 20 dollars, all the way to 100! (I do know the difference between a full cover and a half cover, and I do know size affects the price) Most of them are also waterproof.

What constitutes this price difference?
Is the extra money worth it?


Street Bike Full Cover Covers Accessories - Motorcycle Superstore

^a website that holds a range of different covers.

 

[jw130270]

sorry...

bump..


need an answer badly.

 

[kneedeepinit]

I had great success with the Dowco Guardian Weatherall Plus Cover out doors for a few years until someone stole it when I left it unsecured.

The extra money is worth it, especially when you are storing your bike outside. Now that I have a garage, I only use indoor covers for my bikes.

 

[Stick N Move]

I have this.

For $30 I was expecting a real peice of shit one and I was fine with that since i just use it to keep the dust off overnight and the spiders from pissing me off in the garage. But man was i suprised. This is a good quality cover, I couldnt have asked for a better one. Fits my motorcycle absolutely perfect.

 

[arcticamt6]

I had great success with the Dowco Guardian Weatherall Plus Cover out doors for a few years until someone stole it when I left it unsecured.

The extra money is worth it, especially when you are storing your bike outside. Now that I have a garage, I only use indoor covers for my bikes.

I have that too. Spent $60 on it, seems to work well. Only problems I have with it are some holes that developed when someone backed into my bike and knocked it over

 

[LessPeople_MoreRobots]

I only last year bought a house with a garage, so I'm really familiar with covers.

What I found is that most of the covers just don't last well. Here in the FL sun and rain, it takes about a year for a cover to start deteriorating. The weatherproof ones are good, but the thing is they're so thin that they sweat, and you're bike still gets wet. And since its covered, it stays wet long after all the cars in the parking lot are dry.

I found a solution that works really well. I got a nice heavy canvas indoor-type cover, and i put that on the bike. Then I put a weather-all type cover over it. The canvas cover keeps the condensation for building on the bike, and the outer cover takes the rain and sun. Not having the weather-all cover on the hard parts actually helped prolong its life too.

I did that for almost 2 years with my 600RR, and it kept it as nice as having it garaged. If you don't mind putting on two covers, its a pretty nice way to do it.

 

[sorny]

I bought a couple of the $20-30 covers that were very lightweight (felt like those 'windpants' everyone used to wear in the 80's) and they would rot and the stitching would tear in just a month or two outside. So I finally bought a $50-60 heavy duty canvas cover at Wal*Mart and it's actually been very good so far. AND the light ones would blow off when it got windy but the heavy canvas like material holds itself down. Definitely worth the $50-60 and I assume the $80-100 ones are even nicer if you have the money to spare. But if I couldn't afford at least a $50+ cover I wouldn't even buy one. Assuming your bike is left outdoors that is.

 

[jw130270]

Thanks for the help everyone!

Alright... looks like I'm going to be getting a more expensive cover .

 

[NattyDrez]

Spend the extra few bucks and itll be worth it.

Dowco makes nice stuff. I have the one thats in the $50 range and it does it job...for the few times I use it. Usually if Im too lazy to bring my bike into the garage or if its sitting in the garage for a while and dont feel like having 3 inches of dust on it.

 

[TurboTommy19]

If you have a few more bucks to spend and have the space to put it, get this thing!
CycleShell Enclosure - Outdoor Motorcycle Cover - Protection

If I had to leave my bike outside, that's what I would get. Pretty neat.