Hi,

My lower forks are starting to pit. I know at some point I will be replacing them with a chrome set but may not until next year.. I was wondering if anyone has used the The chrome lower fork covers? if you have could you post pictures I would love to see how they look on your bike..

Thanks

 

dont waste your time or money on anything from kuryakyn its all plastic junk trust me i work in a bike shop an see the trash a lot

 

take em off an polish em on a polishing wheel with the right compounds or do em on the bike its a long slow process an once you get it done enough itll look like chrome i did mine 3 yrs ago an still looks fantastic but you got to put a protevice clear on em after polishing or they wont stay pretty long hope this help you

 

What ^ he said. Someone posted pics of this here recently and wow! Looked as though they were chromed.

 

Only problem with polishing them..is that I am too lazy......lol

 

Kuryakyn makes good stuff. I've had plenty of their parts on plenty of my bikes and no issues. There was a thread on here a while back of someone asking about Kuryakyn parts and the ratio of good to bad replies was probably 5 to 1

 

I dont think they'll work with the cowbells, and they do look kinda cheap (JMO) I polished mine, It's not that hard if/when you remove them for service oil change or adding Monotubes.

 

My dealer was running a sale of around 40% off HD chrome lowers when I bought mine.

 

Please don't use those chrome covers!! I see them on the forks and on the top of the primary and other places. Nothing screams cheesy like those things do. Leave them alone, or polish as others have suggested, or paint them, but those covers say I don't want to upgrade my bike properly. I understand that funds may be a big issue, that stuff gets expensive, and many have families to support. A Harley is an expensive deal, and wanting what makes it look better, an natural thing. But those covers do not look better. I go to shows, and heres a bike with 10s of thousands invested in this thing, and they can't pop for a few hundred for a chromed inner primary. Why!? Do it right!! Don't waste you cash, save up to do it correctly which is chrome, polished, or painted, not plastic covered.

 

The Showa forks H-D uses seem to be an aluminum alloy that pits and corrodes very easily. Mine did the same thing. I sanded off the clear coat and hand polished them. I didn't even disassemble the front end but carefully worked around them.

I wanted to keep the brushed aluminum look so I stopped at 600 grit sandpaper and used metal polish from there.

After that, I applied "Harley Preserves" bare aluminum protectant to the polished forks. It's been five years now and the forks still look like new.