Polishing COMPLETE!
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/4/2007 12:00:25 AM
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Grady
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Nice. Dude your bike is hot! Have fun keeping those perty wheels clean...
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/4/2007 12:16:56 AM
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kcinobro
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Thanks dog. I gotta shout out crxtrixxx and RCKT GRL. They got me hip to the idea. It was easier to do than I thought.
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/4/2007 12:23:41 AM
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mdfirefighter
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Did you take the tires off?
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/4/2007 1:09:30 AM
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kcinobro
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No, I didn't take the tires off. I don't know how to do that myself and I didn't feel like paying someone else to take 'em off. I don't even have a stand to prop my bike on. I just used the hell out of some duck tape to tape off the tire (specifically the nook between the rim and the tire) and the inner part of the rim. (Very important process). I had to tough out the lengthy process and do just one section at a time while moving the bike every few feet along the way.
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/4/2007 12:36:00 PM
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RCKT GRL
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Lookin' good! 
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/4/2007 9:55:41 PM
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kcinobro
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ORIGINAL: Draconius
Those look nice...I saw the other thread on how to do it.
Now you got me thinking...
It's well worth it im my opinion. It gives your bike more of a "presence", if you know what I mean. Just be ready to put in a lot of hours in order to get it just right. For me (not taking the wheels off and not having a stand) it took about a total of 9-10 hours total, which was spread over the course of a week. Taping the tire and the rim took the most time. The rest was downhill.
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/4/2007 9:58:33 PM
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kcinobro
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ORIGINAL: RCKT GRL
Lookin' good!
Thanks. I was really surprised on how much the rims shined! After I buffed them with the metal polish, I was like "dayum, that's shiny!"
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/6/2007 1:43:59 AM
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mannyrios
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ORIGINAL: Grady
Nice. Dude your bike is hot! Have fun keeping those perty wheels clean...
+1
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RE: Polishing COMPLETE! - 1/6/2007 6:38:35 PM
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kcinobro
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Thats what I call the "labor of love".
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