What is wrong with chrome
#11
02-26-2019, 05:25 PM
Thanks
Exchange your wheels for chrome ones. There’s many services now that do this. Impress Plating, ***** Shiny, Sport Chrome, etc.
I like black and I like chrome. What I don’t like is the bike that has every single chrome cover that’s made for it installed. Too much looks like ****, especially the Kuryakyn plastic crap.
I like black and I like chrome. What I don’t like is the bike that has every single chrome cover that’s made for it installed. Too much looks like ****, especially the Kuryakyn plastic crap.
#12
02-26-2019, 05:26 PM
I have found the the way a bike looks to me changes a lot. It is kind of like when you look at a picture of a cube in 3 dimensions. Sometimes the cube looks like it is oriented one way, and sometimes it looks like it is oriented the completely opposite way. Its like that for me with my bikes. When the bike is on the show room floor I get seduced by it. After I bring it home it does not look the same to me. Happened with a blacked out bike happened with a bike with chrome. I am not sure what is causing it, but for me, it is a real phenomenon.
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#13
02-26-2019, 05:28 PM
2019 Street Glide Standard Just added the driving lights last week.
Don’t get me wrong I think some of the blacked out motorcycles look really good but I am just old school, I like the traditional look of chrome. I also think the black is a fad that will run its course and the chrome will never get old. Don’t beat me up on that it’s just my opinion. I bought a new Street Glide Standard just for that reason, would have liked the 114 engine but I sacrificed that for the chrome, and saved quite a bit of money also.
So to the point, have been considering having my stock enforcer wheels chromed, haved looked at some aftermarket wheels but seems to me that there is less selection in chrome in that area also, not to mention the prices.
Anyway just wondering am I among the minority that still loves the look of chrome? There is just something about a H-D that has a nice set of shiny chrome wheels that make me smile.
#14
02-26-2019, 05:28 PM
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I remember when I was first obsessed with Harleys, it was around the time when Easy Rider was out. To me, that was the ultimate bike and it was loaded with chrome. Chrome comes and goes and done right, I could have it either way. They only exception is when somebody chromes the swing arm on a softtail. A softtail is supposed to mimic the lines of a rigid and nobody chromes just the back end of a rigid.
#16
02-26-2019, 05:31 PM
#17
02-26-2019, 05:31 PM
We always over do it (at first anyway until we learn). That is why our garages are filled with parts. You buy a part, put it on, then take it off if you do not like it. The bike is a canvas and you are the painter! People only see the finished product. They do not see what is in your garage! Blacked out bikes are a litter easier to "create".
Last edited by BobRR; 02-26-2019 at 05:33 PM.
#18
02-26-2019, 05:33 PM
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#19
02-26-2019, 05:37 PM
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