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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 01:45 PM
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Going to be needing some new rubber this year. What do you think would look best on here? Black walls? White walls? Wide White walls? Opinions. I think I'm leading towards Metzler ME880's.

I'm mostly interested in your thoughts about the WWW. I like the current look and I'm not a fan on the BW. Anyone good with photoshop?

 

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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 01:51 PM
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The way you have it now looks great!
 
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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 01:56 PM
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I think the WWW would look better than the thin WW. I've considered WWW on my bike but it's all white and I dont know how it would look.
 
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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 01:58 PM
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WWW should look pretty cool with the silver. Be advised going to www is going to entail a lot more maintenance to keep em looking good. My primary reason for losing them, and going to bw, after years of the www. Although I had laced wheels (which I think look better with www) and that required new tubes, and strips at every tire change. Just became more of a pain than they were worth. Actually, I'd recommend chroming the 9=spokes you have, and going to black walls. I did, much, much less cleaning time all the way around, and I think it looks better. Just my $.02.....
 
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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 02:01 PM
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Wide White Walls make that silver scream!
 
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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 02:03 PM
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Judge for yourself... Hope this helps.

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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 02:08 PM
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my vote goes to BW for your bike's current look. HOWEVER, agree with bigskyhd about going with CHROME 9-spokes
 
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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 02:11 PM
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I liked WWW but just have regular WW.
WWW require too much work to keep clean. You can barely see my small strip of white on my tires.
 
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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 02:33 PM
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Tried to PS some www but will have to work on it later - its a bit more time consuming.
 
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Old Mar 24, 2009 | 02:45 PM
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I am a fan of blackwall tires just about all the time , but on some motorcycles the wide white walls do look good....just don't care for the narrow white walls...JMHO...though!
It is your bike and you should run what you like....
 
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