Always worth finishing chrome with a good coat of wax. Chrome plate is porous and water does get through - thats why rust forms under chrome and causes it to lift. Good quality chrome plating (ie like nothing out of a bike factory) overcomes this by triple plating - copper, then nickel and finally chrome. This, plus the preparation, is why show-quality chroming costs. Obviously the factories aren't into this, hence crappy chrome that starts rusting as you wheel the bike out of the showroom
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
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