Motorcycle Gas Tank Cover & Tank Bra Buying Guide: Top Sellerie Fitment by Model

A gas tank cover — also sold as a tank bra or tank protector — is one of the cheapest ways to prevent permanent damage to a motorcycle's most expensive body panel. Jacket zips, belt buckles, and jean rivets scratch through OEM clearcoat within a season of daily riding. Once that happens, the only fix is a respray. A snug, tank-specific cover prevents the damage from happening in the first place, and on adventure and naked bikes it does a second job: giving your knees a grippier surface to lock onto under braking and acceleration.

We stock Top Sellerie tank covers — a French manufacturer, the same brand behind a large share of our seat cover range — with fitment for well over 180 individual motorcycle model and year combinations, from 1990s classics to current-generation adventure bikes. This guide explains what they protect against, how the fitment works, and how to order the right one.

What a Tank Cover Actually Protects Against

The two most common causes of tank paint damage are:

• Jacket and jeans hardware — zips, poppers, belt buckles, and rivets rub against the tank every time you get on and off the bike or shift your weight while riding. Over months this wears through clearcoat and into base colour.
• Knee contact — on naked, adventure, and sport-touring bikes especially, riders grip the tank with their knees under braking. Textile and leather trousers with any grain or seam detail will mark paint over time.

A Top Sellerie tank cover fits over the OEM tank shape like a tailored jacket, adding a physical protective layer between rider contact and paintwork — no adhesive, no permanent modification, and it comes off cleanly if you sell the bike with the tank looking as it did the day you fitted the cover.

Material: Neoprene-Backed Construction

Top Sellerie tank covers are made from a neoprene-backed material — the same category of material used in their seat covers — which gives the cover enough grip to stay seated on the tank without slipping, while remaining flexible enough to stretch over the tank's curves and filler cap without bunching. On adventure and naked bikes, the textured surface also measurably improves knee grip compared to bare painted plastic or glossy tank paint, which is why GS and V-Strom-style adventure bikes account for a large share of what we sell in this category.

Fitment: Why the Exact Year Matters

Tank shape changes between model generations even when the model name stays the same — this is the single biggest source of wrong orders. As an example from our own catalogue: the Kawasaki Z750/Z750R was sold with three distinct tank shapes across its production run — 2003-2006, 2007+, and the 2010+ Z750R — each requiring a different cover pattern despite sharing a model name. The same applies across most of our range: BMW R1200GS LC (2013-2017) has a different tank shape to the earlier air/oil-cooled R1200GS, Suzuki GSX-R1000 changes tank shape across its 2003, 2005-2006, and later generations, and Honda's CRF1000L Africa Twin (2016-2017) differs from the later CRF1100L.

Always confirm your exact model year before ordering — a cover cut for the wrong generation will not seat correctly over the filler cap or fuel sensor housing.

Colour Options and How to Order

Most Top Sellerie tank covers are available in multiple colourways — solid black, colour-matched two-tone combinations (for example black/grey, blue/silver, or black/red), and in some cases tri-colour schemes matching the original factory paint scheme. Because of the number of colour variants per model, colour is selected at checkout by colour code, or you can message us directly with your bike's make, model, and year and we'll confirm the exact codes available for your fitment before you order.

Optional Clip-On Tank Bag

Many Top Sellerie tank covers are designed to accept a matching clip-on tank bag that attaches directly to the cover — no magnetic mount or strap kit required, since the bag clips into fittings sewn onto the cover itself. If you want the tank bag, order it at the same time as the cover; it ships together at no extra shipping cost.

Tank Cover or Seat Cover — Do You Need Both?

They protect different things and most owners who buy one eventually buy the other. A seat cover protects the seat surface and improves rider grip and comfort; a tank cover protects the tank and improves knee grip. If your bike is used daily or covers serious mileage, fitting both at the same time makes sense from a shipping and — on some models — a colour-matching perspective. See our Motorcycle Seat Cover Guide for the seating side of the range, including Top Sellerie's comfort, gel, and heated seat options.

For a real-world example of the two fitted together, see our Honda VFR 800 seat cover and tank bra guide.

What Affects Price

Most Top Sellerie tank covers in our range are priced between roughly $150 and $200 depending on model complexity and colour scheme — multi-colour and tri-colour designs typically sit at the upper end of that range because of the additional panel cutting and stitching involved. Pattern availability depends on how long a model has been in production and how popular it is in Europe, which is why classic and cult models (Ducati Paul Smart, Aprilia Falco, BMW K1100LT) are represented alongside current-generation adventure and sport bikes.

Browse the full Gas Tank Cover & Tank Bra range at Euro Motards. All listings are fitted to exact make, model, and year — email sales@euromotards.com with your bike's details if you can't find your exact model listed or need colour code confirmation before ordering.

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