here you go guys i just pulled the tape off the front wheel so i took them out in the sun and took a pic. what do you think?
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Damn man! Looks REAL GOOD!
thanks im working on the front rotor right now it should be done in an hour or so.
Quote from: joshr08 on March 06, 2009, 11:23:33 AM
here you go guys i just pulled the tape off the front wheel so i took them out in the sun and took a pic. what do you think?
Liar! I still see some tape on the front wheel.
j/k looks awesome man!
ok ok you got me i left that little bit on so in to big of a hurry to get them outside and take a pic.
Damn, the more I see this, the more I keep thinking I need to do this to mine! I just don't know if I have to patience to do this by hand!
Boy, that does look good! Do you think those polished wheels will be any harder to keep that way?
from what ive been reading just polish them and then put a good car wax on them once a week depending on how uch you ride.
rotors done and put back on the front rim
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That's pretty slick man! If I wasn't so lazy... and didn't like riding my bike so much... I would probably tear the wheels off and do this... but it's easier just to watch other people do it :).
Bravo! :cheers:
atleast in michigan it give you about 4 months to work on and customize the bike.
looks amazing man! Can't wait to see them on the bike!
thanks me either..tires get mounted in 2 weeks then they will be on the bike. thanks for the comments guys
Great work, Josh! Now I want to do it, but will probably do what Danny's doing for awhile... nothing! Now that your wheels are done you can fix and paint that f---'ed up bench!
no the bench is goin in the burn pile.
Can you do a detailed write up of how you did this. I really really really want to do this! Only problem is that Florida there is no "down" time! If you were to be really serious to do this how long would it take?
I think this would be so awesome!
mary
to be honest if i was to be under a time crunch i could do this in probably 4 hours next time. total with taking tires off stripping polishing taping off the wheel and painting it to just strip and polish if your going to leave your stock paint.....2 hours tops with removing and reinstalling wheels.
Wow really! My only thing is I don't think I can get the tires off without taking it somewhere. Hmmm, well it will be on my mind. Any specific paint I should use?
Thanks,
Mary
look great! did you use rubbing compound to polish it?
Man that looks nice (looks at his silly yellow rear wheel again)
really nice...and I have 1/2 pint of paint left...and some clear...
Thanks again everyone for the comments. There is a writeup that i had put in the wiki. Now that was wrote before i did my front tire and i found a few tricks that seemed to make things go alot faster on the second wheel. You all know the story it takes you 6 hours the first time and 25 mins the second and 10 the time after that. So i will be making a few changes to the write up in the next week or so but for the most part its a very good starter for anyone that wants to do this to there rims.
http://wiki.gstwins.com/index.php?n=Upgrades.PolishTires
Ok well i went and got the tires mounted andeverything today and put back on the bike. 160/60-17 rear 120/60-17 front. First off I would like to state for the record "I dont recommend putting a shinko raven 160/60-17 on this bike". It was very very very tight. I got it all in and aligned but for this style tire 150 is the widest i would go. I had to space out the sprocket 1/8 of an inch and bend the heck out of the brake torque arm. The pics arent the best but i cant take the bike outside to get good pics. With this tire setup and a katana rear shock center stand is pretty much useless now. So i will be pulling it off one of these days too.
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Quote from: joshr08 on March 18, 2009, 03:33:40 PM
Ok well i went and got the tires mounted andeverything today and put back on the bike. 160/60-17 rear 120/60-17 front. First off I would like to state for the record "I dont recommend putting a shinko raven 160/60-17 on this bike". It was very very very tight. I got it all in and aligned but for this style tire 150 is the widest i would go. I had to space out the sprocket 1/8 of an inch and bend the heck out of the brake torque arm. The pics arent the best but i cant take the bike outside to get good pics. With this tire setup and a katana rear shock center stand is pretty much useless now. So i will be pulling it off one of these days too.
did you space out the front sprocket also, or did you find a reference online that stated 1/8" out of alignment was ok ?
i wonder about that part. there are likely 100,000 bikes going down the road with the rear wheel mis-aligned... :)
i havent spaced out the front sprocket yet. i have to figure out how to do that still.
Looks great man :thumb:
I never spaced my front sprocket out. Turd doesn't mention it specifically, but he does respond to a question posed by gsjack later in the thread. Here's his response.
"Indeed, I did forget to mention sprocket alignment. I only moved the rear sprocket outward just over 1/16", and I did not move the front sprocket at all. The chainline on this bike is approaching 2 feet long. I honestly believe that there will be no adverse effects from the chainline changing 3/32" over 2 feet. Never-the-less, I will be keeping an eye on chain/sprocket wear."
You did have to shim yours out further than that though.
well ill keep an eye on everything and if it needs it ill shim the front
very very nice.. thanks for the write up. dammit one more thing to do.... when will it all end.
:thumb: i dont think it will ever end as there is always something else to do to the bike. more ideas always popping in before the project im working on is competed.
That looks really good bub keep up the good work :thumb: i may have to steal you're idea for the wheels
you cant steal it but you can read about it and do it if you like theres a polish rrims write up i did on the wiki. :thumb:
Looks great! Good job!
How does it ride now? :thumb: :cheers:
thanks for the :thumb: i dont know how it ride temps back down in the lower 20s again last night and snow. prolly wont have it out on the road for a few weeks yet.
Looks great, Nice job!