True, but it's partly the ball ache of taking/ collect and polished pipes are a pain to keep shinning. Might ceramic coat or enamel coat. Think black would suit a lot with the rest of the bike. Not sure.....
yea impossible to keep shinny, shame as I really like the look. Ceramic coating is the way forward if going black wouldn't waste my time with paint. Can't remember how much I was quoted to get mine done but it wasn't too bad a price
^^^^^^ Nice job, yes they wont stay like that for long if your riding through winter over there. If your not though, a bit of up keep and you can keep them looking respectable. NB. We don't have snow, sleet or salt on the roads .
it's the heat. As you can see in my pic the headers came up like crome but within maybe an hour they had gone coffee colored and after 500 ish miles were dark brown and it just spreads further back down the system with every ride. Still, when I get the repairs done from my lil off, I'm getting em polished again!
Can back from welders. Will look totally OEM on bike but should release a few BHP when mapped and sound better but still get past the TD noise police (hopefully).
Only got back lunchtime. Taking mid section to powder coaters tomorrow and I'll get them blasted so I can clean up with a lot less elbow/time. Can't see her actually starting much before Christmas. [emoji20]
Which is particularly annoying as I had an oil leak and want to find before throwing to much cash at the fancy bits.
Reservoir caps back from coating. They were chrome and they warned me it might not work. 1st attempt one was perfect and one was blotchy. So did the blotchy one again but it's made the writing a little shallow.
Maldon blasting will do it too. Just trying to keep costs logical and the 2x3 hour round trips are hard to find this time of year.
Pipes back from blasters, £5 well spent . Now paint or polish?????? Thinking of painting the bike plastics black.......
