Can you apply ceramic coatings to a motorbike?
Quick answer: Ceramic coatings can be applied to all hard surfaces, metals, plastic, carbon fibre and glass which makes them ideal for both protecting your motorbike and helping to keep it clean.
Ceramic coatings bond to hard surfaces, metals, plastic, carbon fibre and glass, which makes them well suited to protecting a motorbike and keeping it easier to clean. Cleaning a bike is a chore, and anything that shortens the job is welcome.
One caveat: pick a detailer who is familiar with bikes. Just moving them around is awkward, they are deceptively heavy, and they catch the uninitiated out. Check the experience and the equipment before you hand yours over.
Most of the painted and cosmetic surfaces on a bike benefit from a suitable coating. Painted bodywork -- tanks, fairings, side panels and tail units -- can be coated much like car paint, improving gloss and making bug removal easier. Powder-coated frames and swing arms shed road film, chain fling and general grime more easily. Metalwork and engine cases take suitable high-temperature or metal-safe coatings that make oxidisation and baked-on dirt easier to remove. Wheels shed brake dust, chain lube and tar more easily, a real help on bikes that see proper mileage. And screens and visors can take visor-safe glass coatings on windscreens and some helmet visors, making wet-weather riding clearer.
Exhausts, headers and some engine parts run far hotter than anything on a car body, and not every ceramic product is suitable there. For high-heat thermal-barrier coatings on exhaust hardware, you want a specialist engine-coating firm, not a paintwork detailer -- the same point we make about coating a manifold.
For the broader "why have ceramic paint protection" answer, see What are the benefits of a ceramic coating?.