Does this annoy anyone else?

Noticed it when I first brought the bike home in Nov 2016, and haven't thought about it since. If it really bothers you I would get some heat resistant engine paint from O'Reilly or Autozone (the kind that has a crinkle finish), mask off the radiator and paint the silver parts, that will make it blend in. The Transformer design of the FZ-10 has several odd, jarring design elements. You either accept it, or wake up in the middle of the night with night sweats. I sleep well.

Krylon sells a pretty cheap fix.

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To me it just looks unfinished, and not in a quirky BMW way. The first time I saw it I thought something fell off. The right side cover is to mask the coolant reservoir so its only real purpose is to provide a cleaner aesthetic look. To me it follows that if you're going to add a superfluous piece of plastic whos only function is to cover something ugly, why not go the extra step and match it with another superfluous piece on the other side? It'd be two or three screws max Yamaha! Guess it just annoys certain people more than others. I bet some people feel the same way about the exposed headers under the oil cooler so they buy Ermax or Puig belly pans.

Naw, part of the reason I like it is the aesthetic. The thing that bugs me is it's incongruity in an otherwise well-executed aggressive design. To me its not ugly, just a conspicuous absence of something. Like a drawing of a person without eyes. You wouldn't say that the person was ugly, you'd say that person was missing eyes. To be ugly a form must be distorted. The lack of something is different than calling something ugly.