haha no problem mate, yeah i did with a wire brush, just to get the worst off, then just went over with a couple of layers of the paint, cheers mate everything you can see plus a k&N which i fitted today and a couple of other bits and bobs that im going to post some pictures up of in a second, yeah ive painted all of them but not gloss just black, and its a oyster silver and wink wink nudge nudge its not an ST my progress thread is somewhere. cheers pictures to follow