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yes or no to front end powder coating???

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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:47 PM
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Here are two recent pics of the bike since powdercoating the fenders and backrest gloss black. What do you guys think about the front end???...stock or powdercoat? Opinions please!!!
 
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:50 PM
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Looks good and yes i would go with the front end too
 
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looks good man! really good! i would at least black out the lower legs, epoxy them if you dont watn to tear them down... either that or polish those suckers up! i think that blacking it all out may not look right witht he chrome headlight.
 
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:52 PM
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I vote for the trees in gloss black and polish out the sliders. If you go for black on the sliders than you'll need black shocks in the rear also.
 
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:53 PM
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Powder coat the lowers, & the trim ring on the head light, or coat the light black, and let the trim chrome.
 
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by HOGRIDA_06
I vote for the trees in gloss black and polish out the sliders. If you go for black on the sliders than you'll need black shocks in the rear also.
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I blacked out my entire front and know think I need some black covered rear shocks.
 
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Old Jan 29, 2009 | 02:59 PM
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looks good man! really good! i would at least black out the lower legs, epoxy them if you dont watn to tear them down... either that or polish those suckers up! i think that blacking it all out may not look right witht he chrome headlight.
Thanks Joe! I got a stock headlight that I could put back on.

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I vote for the trees in gloss black and polish out the sliders. If you go for black on the sliders than you'll need black shocks in the rear also.
Yeah I know I would need black shocks. Having a silver engine makes balancing out the black much harder. If done right...it looks badass though! Look at Tweakin's bike.
 
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Haircut, I'll do a Photoshop of it for you to give you a better idea. Can't get to it til tonight after work. I'm thinking yeah go for it with the epoxy like Joe said. I believe you painted some of your other stuff so you know you're capable. I have a pic of my FXD done with the black lowers and I think it looks pretty good.
 
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Go black........
 
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Haircut, I'll do a Photoshop of it for you to give you a better idea. Can't get to it til tonight after work. I'm thinking yeah go for it with the epoxy like Joe said. I believe you painted some of your other stuff so you know you're capable. I have a pic of my FXD done with the black lowers and I think it looks pretty good.
Hell yeah!...That would be awesome if you could photoshop the legs/trees in one pic, and just the lower legs in another pic. Thanks.
 
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