Polishing rims

On a 1st gen, have any of you guys left the spokes and the centre of the rim black and polished the outer edges?  I'm considering doing it as mine are pretty 5hit and I'm too cheap to have someone powder coat or paint

Any pictures of your handywork?

I think that would look brilliant.
Fork legs came up like a million $$.

rodent4 wrote:On a 1st gen, have any of you guys left the spokes and the centre of the rim black and polished the outer edges?  I'm considering doing it as mine are pretty 5hit and I'm too cheap to have someone powder coat or paint

Any pictures of your handywork?

I have seen photos somewhere and really like the look but couldn't be stuffed keeping them polished

Here's a few examples

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tlzone.net%2Fattachments%2Fwheels4-jpg.7017%2F&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tlzone.net%2Fforums%2Fsuzuki-tl1000r-tl1000s-forum%2F8844-polishing-rims-lip-whole-thing.html&tbnid=vvRLBHC-f_r7tM&vet=12ahUKEwiYw6msu6vtAhUTCHIKHRZ4AyUQMygAegUIARDMAQ..i&docid=27RTQA0zfX35uM&w=347&h=460&q=suzuki%20motorbike%20polished%20rims&ved=2ahUKEwiYw6msu6vtAhUTCHIKHRZ4AyUQMygAegUIARDMAQ

Gus put this post up some time ago ...    
  
https://nswbandits.forumotion.net/t733-polished-rims?highlight=polished+rims

Thanks for the links gents   Seeing the pics it does look good, I think I'm gonna do it

I used some paint stripper from the hardware store when I repainted my set of rims - it took 95% off the factory paint off in no time.

A mate of mine did it to his GSX750F, came up looking real good. 
Fairly sure he masked up what he didn't want stripped (spokes) and used paint stripper on the rim.
You'll want a clear coat over it afterwards to stop corrosion

I think I'm going to roll with brushed, below is a pic of a GS1000S that I owned a lifetime ago with brushed finished Lester's on it. I'd long forgotten that it had brushed rims.

Nice
A solid rear sprocket too.
When on my "L's" I raced one of those one night. Unfortunately, my TS250 could only manage 130kph, at which he put the visor down, waved bye bye and disappeared into the night at a great rate

1250 S, Anno 2007. She came like this when I bought her.

NOTE: When p/coating rims ALWAYS polish, not NEVER p/coat, the lip where the bead of the tyre attaches to the rim, as tyre fitting machines may chip the p/coating.

Regards
Stan L 
South Africa