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Yup, another maitenance cost to keep your bike as new. Seems a frecuent care and maitenance is mandatory if you want to keep your motorbike in good conditions. And if rust appears the best is to disassemble, polish and paint, with a better protective paint

If the motorbike was not brand new probably I would disassemble some parts and paint them properly by aplying a protective layer and then a couple of paint layers so instead of needing to apply a rust blocker, the motorbike would be "rust-proof". When I went to Honda dealer I saw the same cb500x I own but used for 12k km and this piece had several rust spots in it So I'll cover the entire bike with a rust protector

I found that all the weldings ends have a perimetral line of orange substance (well rust) of that subframe piece. Maybe it's better to wait until it rusts more and to go for warranty before it expires. Luckily, here in the north of Spain we only have salty roads less than 1 month a year so the rusting problem due to salt is lower. In any case I already covered the entire mortobike with WD40 to prevent any corrosion and to stop further rusting of thas subframe piece. Soon I'll get ACF-50 to replace the actual WD40 Best

Well I went to the dealer explaining the rust issue... This 15s video summarizes their response Basically they told me Honda never accepts the fact that one of their bikes could be faulty and that Honda will always find an excuse to make someone else responsible of the fault (except an evident issue) sooo the dealer said to not worry about it and if the rust increases to go again so they make photos and send them to Honda. I also asked if other customers complained about rust in their new bikes. They responded no. Apparently no one looks as much as I did to seek rusting So, conclusion: I'll fix it for myself. Polishing and painting will do the job But not a good thing from Honda

The most disgusting thing is the fact that they unsuccessfully tried to hide the welding rust by painting with a permanent marker "to see if it doesn't show." Come ooon. I should expect a replacement of this sub-frame part. Even if they dont replace but to have as a spare part could work for me (well it's a labour to disassemble that part even to polish and repaint it properly). I have extended warranty to 5 years and I don't know how long I'll keep this bike but my intention is to keep for a while and even more!. Let's see what the dealer says this afternoon

Yup, that's what I'm going to do today, Hopefully they will replace that piece. Will keep you updated

Hi folks, Recently I have discovered some rust on my brand new Honda CB500X. I did some research and seems I'm not the only one suffering from this. Seems rusting is quite common on every motorbike (even in the "premium" ones like the GS1250, Africa Twin, Tenere...) although this shouldn't happen. But what shouldn't be acceptable is to have rust on a NEW motorbike. Mine has 900km on it and in the month and half since I aquired it it has been always in a garaje and it han´t gotten wet yet. The Rust is in the gas tank (I spotted this rust even before using it for the first time) and in the "subframe" that holds the front headlight. I attach some pictures. This rust is nothing that I could fix just by polishing the affected areas, applying Zinc cathodic protection spray and then painting it but...on a brand new motorbike I will thell the dealer and see the response from Honda... Also I discovered that it's a good practice to cover generously the entire bike (except the brakes and tires) with WD40 or ACF-50 to prevent it from any rusting after washing and drying the motorbike so it's a practice I'll do to keep it always clean and free from rust. (Look at the last attached image, someone applied a black permanent marker to "hide" some rust spots, WTF duuuude)

Thanks for the replies!! Yup, this seems to be a typical begginer mistake, will take even more care from now on. Too many new things to learn and automatize, have to teach my brain to do all this sequences correctly while focusing on the road Best

I have a question from a mechanical point of view as well as from not-damaging the motorbike point of view. I'm a new rider with my first motorbike ever (a brand new Honda CB500X). Yesterday something happened and i want to know what was it. I was riding in 2nd gear at 35-40 km/h and was ready to upshift to 3rd gear so I did this sequence: Press the clutch and instead of pressing up the shift lever I pressed it down so instead of engaging the 3rd gear I engaged the 1st BUT with the clutch lever fully pressed. I didn't engage the clutch because the reason I realized I put the 1st gear was because I felt somenthing like the jerk you feel when going from neutral to 1st gear while stationary, but this time the "jerk" was harder. Just after realizing this mistake I pressed up the shift lever to engage 2nd gear and the same "not-soft" erk happened. Then I put 3rd gear, disengage the clutch and everyting went OK. I arrived home 30 min later and the bike was apparently fine in terms of gear shifting Is this bad for the gearbox? What happened? Isn't suppossed that nothing wrong should happen to the gearbox as long as the clutch is disengaged? Best