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Need your input on wire wheel.
Need your input on my wire wheels. The aluminum ring on my rear was corroded so I cleaned it the best I could. It is still pretty bad though, and spokes are rusty as well. So here are some thoughts I had.
1st bead blast the whole wheel, paint it semi gloss black or flat black with a red pin stripe on the lip. The up side, cheap and easy.
2nd bust out the bolt cutters and remove the spokes. Go to buddies house and use his stand mounted buffer and go to town on the rim and hub. Install new spokes, and learn to lace and true wheels. Down side $85 for spokes, learning to lace(not to hard), learning to true a wheel (really hard), coming out black head to toe with rouge from buffing rim.
3rd kinda like #2. Instead paint the rim and hub black or color keyed to bike (which will be red eventually), and install the new stainless spokes bare.
4th back wards of #3, polish the rim and hub, but paint the spokes black.
The plan for the bike is once I get my tail/seat it will get painted. The color scheme so far is going to be a deep red with black flake sprayed over it. Then a gun metal silver 3 bar stripe down the center. I will have my buddy cut out some "Suzuki" stencils for the sides of the tank which will also be done gun metal silver. Then clear the bike with a satin clear. Best part of it all, I have all this paint already from previous projects.
Frame will be done in Por15's black frame paint. That I have to buy 
1st bead blast the whole wheel, paint it semi gloss black or flat black with a red pin stripe on the lip. The up side, cheap and easy.
2nd bust out the bolt cutters and remove the spokes. Go to buddies house and use his stand mounted buffer and go to town on the rim and hub. Install new spokes, and learn to lace and true wheels. Down side $85 for spokes, learning to lace(not to hard), learning to true a wheel (really hard), coming out black head to toe with rouge from buffing rim.
3rd kinda like #2. Instead paint the rim and hub black or color keyed to bike (which will be red eventually), and install the new stainless spokes bare.
4th back wards of #3, polish the rim and hub, but paint the spokes black.
The plan for the bike is once I get my tail/seat it will get painted. The color scheme so far is going to be a deep red with black flake sprayed over it. Then a gun metal silver 3 bar stripe down the center. I will have my buddy cut out some "Suzuki" stencils for the sides of the tank which will also be done gun metal silver. Then clear the bike with a satin clear. Best part of it all, I have all this paint already from previous projects.
Frame will be done in Por15's black frame paint. That I have to buy
. How about bead blasting the whole thing--paint everything but the outer rim lip black then polish the the lip and put a red pinstripe just inside the lip on the black painted surface? Spokes are cool!
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