Polished lower legs?
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From: Sevierville, TN
It is not hard to maintain at all. I polish mine in less than 5 minutes with Brasso every three to four months and DONE. How hard is that? I have done it on the last three bikes I have owned and I spend more time checking air pressure than keeping them polished up nice.
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Thats true. I was actually going to polish them on the bike by removing the fender, calipers and wheel. I agree about the chrome but I have a challenge in that I live on 6 miles of rough gravel road. My pal down the road put chrome sliders on his bike and in less that a year they looked like hell from the stones and constant sand and gravel blasting. I figured I could just do a good polishing every 3 months or so and keep them up better than the chrome. Can't polish out chrome, only fix is rechrome. The other thing I did was to put 3-M paint protection film on the lower bottom frame rails and I cut a 1/4 thick rubber truck mud flap and installed one flat against the frame bottom front and rear. Remove a couple of tie wraps once a year wax and put back and the gravel doesn't affect or chew up the frame on the bottom of the bike. Did the same on my old Dyna and when I sold that 13 year old bike the frame was like new despite a million and one trips up and down that road every day.
Last edited by Rickr01; Jun 28, 2010 at 07:02 AM.
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I am in the process of polishing mine. I figure that it might take some time to get done but when it is done it will look great. As I am about to put both bikes into some local shows. This will look like I took the time to do this. As for keeping clean that should be a breeze. I have found elsewhere on here about shoe strings and mothers polish. That is going to keep mine bright.
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North Jersey winters can be long cold rainy and snowy.
My old glide came from the factory in 89 with hardly any chrome on it at all, it's a bare bones Police bike.
Used dry and wet sandpaper along with various grades of steel wool and lots of Flits metal polish on the wheels , legs, nose cone, rocker boxes, tranny cover and primary cover.
Looks a hell of alot better now with all of it shining off of the PPG gloss black paint than the pitted, dull, grey 21 year old alluminum BS finish that used to be there.
Crank the tunes, grab a couple Big Jack n' cokes and spent some quality time in the garage. Yes, it takes more to maintain than just chrome, but it does not flake off like old chrome and once it's really done right, the extra ploshing it takes to maintain it on an ongoing basis really does not take a lot of time. No more so than waxing the bike after it's washed.
My old glide came from the factory in 89 with hardly any chrome on it at all, it's a bare bones Police bike.
Used dry and wet sandpaper along with various grades of steel wool and lots of Flits metal polish on the wheels , legs, nose cone, rocker boxes, tranny cover and primary cover.
Looks a hell of alot better now with all of it shining off of the PPG gloss black paint than the pitted, dull, grey 21 year old alluminum BS finish that used to be there.
Crank the tunes, grab a couple Big Jack n' cokes and spent some quality time in the garage. Yes, it takes more to maintain than just chrome, but it does not flake off like old chrome and once it's really done right, the extra ploshing it takes to maintain it on an ongoing basis really does not take a lot of time. No more so than waxing the bike after it's washed.