At some point I'd like to change the black lower forks on my Street Twin to silver (and remove the reflectors). Does anybody know if this a case of sandblasting the black off or if silver parts are available? I've had a look about but haven't found any yet. Any advice gratefully received.
The old hairdryer trick for the reflectors or some use dental floss and a solvent to clean off the residue either way Then mask up and spray the legs silver sorted
Thanks. I hadn't really considered painting over the black as I think a polished bare metal would look better but it's definitely an option. I guess powder coating would be most hard-wearing.
You do need to do this. Having a bike with lots of exposed polished ali is a rite of passage. It's a necessary step on the curve. *buys more stock in solvol*
These were originally black, cleaned them up using various grades of wet and dry paper, 400 to 2000 grit. Finished off with good old Solvol.
Aye, and polished again, and again, and again, and........... All very nice but wayyyyy too much TLC required for my liking.
True Gladtobebackontwowheels, but very therapeutic in these times of lockdown , can't beat a bit of a rub now and again
Find a local polisher who'll do it in a fraction of the time of faffing about with wet and dry and Autosol etc. I had a brushed alloy Fireblade silencer done to a mirror finish years ago and it didn't cost much at all really. We're lucky here in Sheffield in having quite a few metal working/refinishing workshops, at least we had back then!
In the spirit of full disclosure, the maintenance was buckets of solvol but the finish was due to having access to a three phase polishing mop
