what type/brand tire pen did you use? my fear is that after a few trips down the road it would look like tammy faye's mascara.

 

Just something I picked up at Autozone. It's made for it so it won't run. Be sure to clean the letters with Acetone before applying the paint.

 

I think it looks great. I have seen the wide white walls and they look great on some bikes but have not until today seen it as a raised white letter. I remember spending the extra time with a "brillo pad" to get the white walls looking great when detailing my car as a young man...might take me a little longer to get up from doing that today

 

The 70s part of me thinks cool...the current part of me thinks meh. You did a great job of it, looks factory. How well does that stuff come off if change mind?

 

Seems to come off pretty easily with Acetone. Also read dry steel wood will take it off.

 

i was just wondering this myself, how hard is it to remove

 

I don't have the patience, but I convinced my artistic wife to do it for me last winter. Tires were brand new at the time. Didn't really take her too long, maybe 4 hours total for both tires. I used Dunlop Harley Branded tires, I think it looks 70's cool. Reminds me of the XL's and FX's of the time, or even a nice Pontiac with some Cragar SS wheels. It is the little things that make us happy and make our bikes, OURS.

 

I picked up some tire paint pens a couple weeks ago and got motivated by this thread to do mine.

I got like 3 letters in and said... "F this!" I discovered I do not have the patience. It's all good.

 

i did mine too but used a black pen it dosent look any different

 

Back in the day I had RWL avengers on my '80 superglide think they were made by Dunlop.