My cheap drip tray literally melted into a puddle of goo under my bike and I’m still annoyed about it
Left the Panigale parked in the corner of the garage here in Ajman for maybe three weeks while I was traveling for work and when I came back there was this weird wavy puddle of what used to be a perfectly rectangular metal drip tray sitting under it because apparently the combination of a tiny brake fluid weep and the insane humidity turned the cheap coating into something resembling old chewing gum, and it had bonded so completely to the concrete that I had to scrape it off with a putty knife and half the paint came with it, which my landlord is definitely going to notice when I move out someday, and now I’m on a quest to find something that won’t disintegrate the second a drop of anything slightly corrosive hits it, and I keep seeing these oil resistant drip trays UK made products popping up in my searches with people swearing the powder coat doesn’t bubble or lift even with brake fluid sitting on it for days, which sounds like a dream compared to the horror show I just cleaned up, but I’m genuinely curious if the gauge of the steel is thick enough that it won’t sound like a tin roof in a hailstorm every time I roll the bike over the lip, because the last one was so flimsy it would jump and rattle and scare the cat every single time and I’d rather not have to sneak up on my own motorcycle like it’s a skittish horse.
