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The previous owner of my Road King put on some S&S MK45's (pictured below). I really like the black ceramic look of it. I was thinking I would lean into that a little further and match up the front and rear highway bars. So, my question is, is that something I could get done to my existing chrome freeway bars? (Is it sacrilege or simply a bad idea to strip a chrome bar and repaint it?). I also have no idea how much having bars painted with ceramic black power coating would cost. Would it be cheaper to buy new ones instead? I tried looking for some just to estimate cost, but couldn't turn up anything but glossy black or standard powder coated black bars.
I like the ones on my RKC. As to how you should go about it, thankfully the world is a place full of options. I don't know if mine are official H-D parts, and I don't care! They were on the bike when I bought it. One of the reasons I was attracted to it!
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Black front/rear freeway bars
