| Author | Message | ||
     Firebolt020283 |
im planning on doing something to the frame either chromeing it or painting it black which would look better???? | ||
| Rocketsprink |
You can polish it cause its aluminum, but a lot of messy work. Paint my look cheap, unless done right. Depends on time and $$ you want to invest. | ||
| Mr_cuell |
This is as subjective as it gets, but I think stock looks better than either of those options. The chrome looks gaudy to me - too gimmicky, and painted? I just can't envision that looking better, especially given the effort it would take to get everything off the frame - | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
well if it was painted it would be done profesionaly but the polishing thing sounds neat i donno im trying to build a really nice looking bike and im planning on putting abunch of chome on it and i was thinking the frame being black would make the chrome jump out but then the frame being shiny might catch more attention | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
but the grey frame will through the rest of the bike off right now it looks ok but once i paint the rest of the bike it will look weird but its ur opinion and thats what i asked for | ||
| Coyote_xb12s |
I did my 12S all in black. I think it looks better now than before. I didn't like all the different shades of gray it had between the frame, subframe, cheese grater and headlight assembly, so I did them all in flat black. I can't ever get my pictures small enough for this site, but here is a link where pictures of my bike can be found if you want to get an idea. http://www.sportbikes.com/photo/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=43902 | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
thanks coyote that looks pretty good i might go with the black but im still thinking but it sure would look good with those new black wheels they have out | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
oh yea coyote is it powder coted or painted cuz i was thinking about powder coating it if i went with black? | ||
| Coyote_xb12s |
I had the wheels powder coated gloss black, but the frame was sprayed flat black. | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
oh ok thanks | ||
| Bigsherm9r |
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| Firebolt020283 |
damn that looks nice too what does it take to get it to look like that | ||
| M1combat |
Here's a couple more... I have a bunch at work I think.    | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
the bottom one is what i was looking for with the exepion that i have a xbr but still the chrome and black principal is there and it looks pretty good thanks for the pics its really helped give me some idea as to how it would look | ||
| 420at145mph |
look for miatsos bike pics he polished everything on his | ||
| 420at145mph |
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| 420at145mph |
think the black one is the xb"15" built n puttin down like 138rwhp | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
that all black one looks neat | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
ouch thats the kinda power im talking about | ||
| 420at145mph |
thers other pics of it floatin around too its got a dual intake dealy | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
well thats definatly a goal for me to shoot for cuz i seriously want that powerful of a bike but hell if i hit the 110hp mark ill be happy which i have faith in my self that i can do it | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
after thinking a  it for a long time im going to go with the black frame and just have chrome accents to set off the bike now i cant wait to get home to actually do it to bad it wont be untill march 2005  | ||
| Henrik |
The all-black bike looks mean'n nasty. Great! Just need to coat the headers, add a black Drummer, coat the forks and cylinders and it'd be completely stealth  Henrik |
