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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 06:19 PM
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I'm thinking about changing out my stock lower legs with some black powercoated replacements I'm seeing on Ebay. Anyone have any photos of a dark SG with this treatment? I also have a question about what to do with the beer cans (cow bells). Would they be best chromed, left as stock, or also powercoated? If all these items are black, how would it look with the chrome piece above it that holds the turn signals?

Took the liberty of doing a bit of Photoshop work, first with black on both items, then black only on the lowers. Comments?


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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 06:36 PM
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Black powdercoat is a disease! It will slowly devour all that shiney stuff on your bike!

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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 06:50 PM
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Amen.

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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 06:55 PM
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An SG with black forks......hmmmm........ where have seen one before?[sm=confused06.gif]

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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 07:34 PM
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Chrome is the new 'crack'. Not my original line...someone else's...but I agree.
 
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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 08:31 PM
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I think it looks good on black bikes when the entire front-end is blacked out (lower legs, beer cans, and bezel), like what I see in the bikes shown so far. My photoshopped shots lack something, and I wonder if this only works well when surrounded by more black paint.
 
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Old Jan 16, 2007 | 09:35 PM
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Old Jan 17, 2007 | 10:21 AM
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Use the HDF member fast turn around and reasonable E-mail flt04leeI have had some stuff done by him and it was an all around great experiance!
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I'm thinking about changing out my stock lower legs with some black powercoated replacements I'm seeing on Ebay. Anyone have any photos of a dark SG with this treatment? I also have a question about what to do with the beer cans (cow bells). Would they be best chromed, left as stock, or also powercoated? If all these items are black, how would it look with the chrome piece above it that holds the turn signals?

Took the liberty of doing a bit of Photoshop work, first with black on both items, then black only on the lowers. Comments?


[IMG]local://upfiles/4327/DDE869DBE91B41E6A8825BD386E34179.jpg[/IMG]

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I think your bike would look much better with chrome leggs.
 
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Old Jan 17, 2007 | 05:11 PM
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I have black lower and upper sliders on the way, just won them on e-bay a few days ago, they will look great on mine because It is black. IMHO should go chrome with your colour of scoot. just my 2 cents
 
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