If you polish those wheels up nice, you could get them anodized.. Would make cleaning them again a whole heaps easier.
god damn, who knew building up a bike was so complicated..
everythings been done before really polished lips and polished wheels are old news too - that satin/anodized gold does look pretty good on bikes though. I like it. I could go anodized blue or red.. usually looks pretty silky smooth too.
Done a bit more stripping on the wheels, the lips are a really nice smooth cast but once u get to the spokes the cast is pretty rough/porous.. dunno if I have the patience to get them smooth/polished enough by hand to anodize.
and heres my next question. my forks already look like they are anodized from factory.. they are a purple color I think.. can u even get the old anodized coating/layer off by hand/diy? or can you anodize over old anodize? they have to go gold lol.
having a tough time pulling my front forks apart too.. any tips advice? do I need any specialist tools..
I'v only done conventional/normal forks on my blade and I don't need anything special for those but yea these upside down jobbies are confusing me..
The Aprilia has a very wierd front setup, one fork does one job and the other fork does something else. One is damping and the other like rebound or something wierd in the manual it calls one hydraulic brake leg and the other is spring compression leg
one reed valve from bottom cylinder was clean as a whistle and looks good.
reed valve from top cylinder however was rather black...
although being a bit black the flaps still look fine and make a good seal over the opening. seem to open and spring closed well. The black stuff cleans off a bit i rubbed a corner.
But what is this telling me about the top cylinder? anyone knows a bit bout strokers enlighten me. (you know, like you can tell whats going on in the cylinder by condition of piston/spark plug I assume I could learn something from the cond of these too maybe..
yea just been out in the shed lookin at the rims now with shiny lip and black centers. it looks classy. think I'll go with that aye, gold forks, gold discs and gold brembos will be enough gold on it haha. thinking what to do with the triple clamps too.
gonna have to get nice levers and rear sets too.. sigh.
and exhausts, oh man..
haha. back to the shed got engine work to do (crank is looking iffy) and got to try and get the front forks apart myself so I can take em to a local outfit who recons they do anodizing.
When you go to look for rear-sets, PM bogan on here, I think he's looking in to making some and he does good work (I trust him with my bike lol and I don't trust myself)
Ima steal your brembos though, okay? And your wheels.
who is it that does the anodizing?
be interested to know their prices, color availability and quality
Sup bro, I'm just waiting for proper quotes back from 2 places, one is Otago Galvanisers, they are local here in Dunners and recon they can do anodizing well so I asked them for a quote for my 2 fork tubes, and my 2 triple clamps. Second option is Advanced Anodizing Ltd in Tokoroa, works on a send them ur parts and they send them back for you. They have a bit more experience with fork tubes and bike parts in particular having done a few. Again waiting on some solid figures via e-mail, fork tubes and triples again but I also asked him how much 2 wheels would cost. Will update when I get the quotes.
They also said don't bother prepping yourself since they usually have to do it again themselves unless your super amazing at it theres a chance it won't be perfect and they will just have to re do it. So yea just send the parts as is and they come back all shiny and new.. but at what cost...
haha, brembos are pimp, they are pretty tidy so will just give them a scrub and hopefully they look shiny and good. the wheels are looking mint too haha I like em. Mrs seems to like my idea of red centers with polished lip.. curse her.. I do like the black center as is tho it looks tight.
... and no, you can't have em!
http://www.anodising.co.nz/default.aspx
There's these cats too. We send our stuff from work to them. We've never had any problem with their work.
heh, yeah well cost is the big question innit. Id probably go with the experienced lads for the fork tubes if theyve done them before.
Which place did you send the engine parts into in the end, the place by dick smiths, or the stafford street lot?
Cost me $15 for a hone at stafford st - pretty happy with that!
-edit the cost of wheels would be interesting re the anodizing, I dont blame them for saying dont bother with prepping yourself, any half decent painter will say the same - the prep has a massive effect on the final product, and theyll only wanna do it once
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