Premium Motorcycle Cover: What you should know about Motorcycle covers before you buy!

To protect your motorcycle from the weather all year round, a high-quality Motorcycle cover is essential.

From blazing sunshine with strong UV exposure to the depths of winter with frost and snow: Motorcycle covers have to be able to do a lot to get your bike safely through the whole year.

Here you can find out what you should look out for before buying a good motorcycle hood and why the right fit protects you from damage to the motorcycle:

Table of Contents

  1. The material of a good motorcycle hood
  2. The correct fit of motorcycle hoods

The material of a good motorcycle hood

In order to protect your motorcycle all year round, the material of a good motorcycle cover must be suitable for outdoor use in the first place.

The right material for your Motorcycle cover should not only be durable (impact- and tear-resistant), but also UV- and weather-resistant. Additional protection is provided by a repellent and water-resistant nano-coating, which – like the lotus effect – allows rain to roll off cleanly.

For long-term protection of your motorcycle, you also need a durable motorcycle cover that will ensure your motorcycle retains its value for several years. The right base material for the Motorcycle covers is crucial here. But what material should you use?

The choice is great! There are a variety of different materials on the market that are suitable for various areas of application:

  • polyester
  • polyamide
  • polyethylene
  • Other microfibers
  • and many more

Unfortunately, there are many manufacturers on the market who sell so-called “outdoor” motorcycle covers, which usually do not even offer sufficient protection as indoor covers.

You can find more information on why cheap Motorcycle covers can even cause damage to your bike in the Motorcycle covers advisor.

Polyester the fiber for optimal Motorcycle cover outdoor protection

For permanent outdoor protection, polyester has emerged as the synthetic fiber with the best properties.

  • It is tear-resistant and UV-resistant than polyamide. Only absorbs very little moisture and can dry more quickly.
  • In addition, polyester is very durable and breathable, which makes this material particularly suitable for outdoor use.
  • An important property is the high UV resistance so that the material is not degraded and damaged by UV rays (a common problem with cheap Motorcycle covers).

Even with polyester there are big qualitative differences! If cheap raw materials are used for the production of synthetic fibers, e.g. impure granules or granules stretched with cheaper material, this can significantly impair the properties and, above all, the durability of the motorcycle cover.

We recommend a durable 300 denier material , often abbreviated to “300D”. Since this material is significantly more expensive than e.g. 190D or 210D – but also significantly more resistant – the wheat is separated from the chaff here.

You can find more information on what you should know before buying a Motorcycle cover in our Motorcycle covers buying guide.

The right fit of the Motorcycle covers

If you buy a motorcycle cover that is too big for your motorcycle, excess material will lie on the ground and is therefore constantly in contact with moisture, dirt and grains of sand.

If there is no distance to the ground, the necessary air circulation is not created, which can transport moisture to the outside and thus prevent your motorcycle from rusting.

To ensure that as many motorcycles as possible fit under one size of motorcycle cover, manufacturers unfortunately often design the motorcycle covers far too large.

After just a few weeks or months, the result is: severe rust damage, mold and pieces of fabric flapping (and causing scratches) in the wind.

Motorcycle hood from MYCOVER. An outdoor Motorcycle covers for the whole year

This is how your new motorcycle hood fits properly:

  • The fabric should not lie on the floor: a distance of 5-10 cm from the floor is recommended
  • Elasticated hems for a better fit
  • The general shape must match the motorcycle type e.g. sports bike, tourer, chopper etc.
  • Important in wind: fastening straps on the underside

Suitable Motorcycle covers for your bike!

We at MYCOVER® have made it our task to be able to offer a suitable motorcycle cover for your motorcycle. Together with our biker community, we are constantly developing new sizes for an optimum fit on a wide range of motorcycle models and types.

To make it quick and easy to find the right Motorcycle cover for your motorcycle model, we have size recommendations for over 1,000 different motorcycle models.