me and dangerous are merciless when it comes to critiquing each other's bikes, his bonny came with some home made sidepanels, someone had made a nice job of them, brazed and rivetted mounting brackets, powdercoated gloss black and edged with vinyl, but, they were, well a bit bland so i took them off and chucked them in the bin when he'd gone home one night, next night he wasn't amused and i tried to talk him into running the bike with no sidepanels but he wasn't having any of it, he ordered a set of repo 'glass items from shropshire motorcycles and they turned up today, must admit the old nob was right, they look pretty good, [just don't tell him i said it]