Can a Train be too black?
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: Slumped Over
OK. A little Zen moment, please.
When I was a kid, I can remember seeing a big old Lincoln, that wet road, black as night color with the chrome trim on the doors, and chrome grill, and fender-well covers with chrome trim, anyway, you get the picture.
Fast forward about forty years, and I'm standing in Savannah's HD glitterdome, on a mission to purchase a new Street Bob. But they didn't have one in black. So the salesman says, "Have you looked at a NightTrain? We have one in black."
The rest, gentlemen, is history. This week I painted the heat shields black, and I'm wondering if I can keep my front end shiny. The bride says, "Leave it like that!", but I feel the tug. Point being, a little chrome on a black Train is a good thing. To me, everything blacked out looks industrial.
I like the 1958 Lincoln Continental look.
http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/l...ncoln-001.html
When I was a kid, I can remember seeing a big old Lincoln, that wet road, black as night color with the chrome trim on the doors, and chrome grill, and fender-well covers with chrome trim, anyway, you get the picture.
Fast forward about forty years, and I'm standing in Savannah's HD glitterdome, on a mission to purchase a new Street Bob. But they didn't have one in black. So the salesman says, "Have you looked at a NightTrain? We have one in black."
The rest, gentlemen, is history. This week I painted the heat shields black, and I'm wondering if I can keep my front end shiny. The bride says, "Leave it like that!", but I feel the tug. Point being, a little chrome on a black Train is a good thing. To me, everything blacked out looks industrial.
I like the 1958 Lincoln Continental look.
http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/l...ncoln-001.html
Last edited by SavannahBob; May 29, 2009 at 11:15 PM.
Road Master
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R.I.P. BROTHER
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From: Colorado Springs
OK. A little Zen moment, please.
When I was a kid, I can remember seeing a big old Lincoln, that wet road, black as night color with the chrome trim on the doors, and chrome grill, and fender-well covers with chrome trim, anyway, you get the picture.
Point being, a little chrome on a black Train is a good thing. To me, everything blacked out looks industrial.
I like the 1958 Lincoln Continental look.
http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/l...ncoln-001.html
When I was a kid, I can remember seeing a big old Lincoln, that wet road, black as night color with the chrome trim on the doors, and chrome grill, and fender-well covers with chrome trim, anyway, you get the picture.
Point being, a little chrome on a black Train is a good thing. To me, everything blacked out looks industrial.
I like the 1958 Lincoln Continental look.
http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/l...ncoln-001.html
I have considered yanking my Chrome axle covers, swingarm inserts, pulley cover, swingarm bolt covers but I like the chrome trim stuff and since I'm sportin' a monsterous 9" schnozzola of a headlight?
The chrome bits and pieces stay.
I did just powdercoat my brake and shift levers, and a set of lower fork sliders and a new set of bars 80% semi gloss black, and had just my AC snorkel powdered wrinklecoat to match the valve covers.
But yeah....I'm with Bob. Gots to have a lil' bling with the black. Love that Lincoln Bob.
R.I.P. BROTHER
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From: Colorado Springs
It's the one in the H-D catalog made by Marzocchi. I picked it up 25% off during the local dealership's open house. The only downside to it is that no one knows how to work on the damn thing. I want to drop the front end an inch, and I'm basically gonna have to take it apart with nothing more than an exploded diagram to guide me, fabricate spacers, then try to put it back together.
But other than that, it's great. It looks fantastic, and makes a real difference in the way the front end goes into a corner. It's still no Ninja, but it's a ton better than the floppy FX front end.
But other than that, it's great. It looks fantastic, and makes a real difference in the way the front end goes into a corner. It's still no Ninja, but it's a ton better than the floppy FX front end.
Road Master
Joined: May 2005
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From: Northern NJ
it is possible!!!
I changed my rocker boxes and timing cover because I had some chrome on the pipes that where all by them selves.
but if you have all black including black pipes you are good...the problem is that people see chrome as status symbol.and black as stock. but that is changing rapidly....
black is the new chrome!!!!
I changed my rocker boxes and timing cover because I had some chrome on the pipes that where all by them selves.
but if you have all black including black pipes you are good...the problem is that people see chrome as status symbol.and black as stock. but that is changing rapidly....
black is the new chrome!!!!
Tourer
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From: Pittsburgh, Pa. & Columbus, OH.
amen!
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New guy on the forums. Thanks for having me
Just left the crotch rocket scene for my first Harley and picked up a Night Train. I am looking to get rid of some of the chrome myself and complete it with a nice blacked out look. Good advise and images.
SS
Just left the crotch rocket scene for my first Harley and picked up a Night Train. I am looking to get rid of some of the chrome myself and complete it with a nice blacked out look. Good advise and images.
SS
Last edited by SignalSoldier; May 31, 2009 at 05:27 AM.
