2019 Honda-Motorcycle Touch Up Paint (5 OEM Colors)

The 2019 Honda-Motorcycle Vibe

By 2019, Honda was leaning hard into the "Candy" aesthetic, turning the legendary Gold Wing and the redesigned Rebel series into rolling pieces of hard candy. This was the year where depth was everything. We've focused our collection on the survivors of this era, the colors that really defined the showroom floor-specifically the deep, layered reds like Candy Alizarin Red Tricoat and Cabernet Red Tricoat. If you weren't riding a bike that looked like it was dipped in liquid fruit punch, you were probably opting for the classic Medium Blue Tricoat. It was a time of high-gloss finishes and complex pigments that looked a mile deep under the neon lights of a bike night.

Paint Health Check

Welcome to the Thin Paint Era. While the finish on a 2019 Honda looks like a million bucks, the reality is that the factory robots were calibrated for "maximum efficiency." That means your clear coat is likely thinner than a post-it note. Owners from this year often complain that the paint is "soft"-you look at it wrong with a microfiber towel and you've got swirl marks; a June bug hits your fairing at highway speeds and it leaves a crater. Because these are largely Tricoats, once a chip goes deep, it's not just a hole in the color-it's a break in a complex optical sandwich of base and mid-coats.

Restoration Tip

When you're repairing a 2019 finish, you have to outsmart the robots. Since nearly everything from this year is a Tricoat (like that Bright Red or Alizarin), don't try to fix a chip in one heavy-handed go. Build your layers slowly. Apply your base color thin, let it tack up, and then use the mid-coat to "dial in" the depth. If you blob it on, the metallic flakes will sink like stones in a pond, and you'll end up with a dark spot that sticks out like a sore thumb. Thin, patient layers are the only way to replicate that factory "candy" depth without making it look like a DIY disaster.