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Aug 19, 2012 | 03:02 PM

Deer Stalker

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The stock aluminium and painted wheels, can you tell me if they are clear coated with lacquer or are they bare?

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Aug 19, 2012 | 03:27 PM

131tman

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bare - guaranteed to stain & oxidize - virtually impossible to clean

Aug 19, 2012 | 03:33 PM

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bare - guaranteed to stain & oxidize - virtually impossible to clean

That's what I thought, just wanting to guage how to clean them

Aug 19, 2012 | 04:55 PM

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They look bare to me

Aug 19, 2012 | 06:23 PM

Nitrochicken

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A quick look in the HD accessory catalog can fix that problem lol

Aug 19, 2012 | 06:43 PM

HDV-GLIDE

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My 09 SG wheels look like they did when they uncrated my bike in 08. Wash them on a regular basis and keep several coats of a good paste wax on them and they will look good forever.

Aug 19, 2012 | 07:01 PM

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How in the hell do you wax them? It's a knuckle cutting exercise for me to wash them. Short of taking them off, I'm stumped.

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Aug 19, 2012 | 07:25 PM

HDV-GLIDE

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How in the hell do you wax them? It's a knuckle cutting exercise for me to wash them. Short of taking them off, I'm stumped.

You need a good floor jack i.e. Pit Bull to get them up at a comfortable work level.
Only hard area I find is the area behind the pulley. If you have "Hulk" hands, yes you may have problems. I have a Street Glide with the "tractor wheels" (Anarchy Wheels waiting to be installed) but if you have the Ultra wheels, all those cut outs could be a real PITA.

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Aug 19, 2012 | 09:02 PM

mikebaby

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I can't get my rear SG wheel to clean up to save my life. It laughed at my attempt to polish it with a dremmel last week. I am out of ideas.

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Aug 19, 2012 | 10:27 PM

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To a large degree the staining, oxidizing and pitting is caused by brake dust — brake dust being corrosive. I sold the stock pads on ebay and installed Lyndall brake pads when my bike was new and now with 30k miles the wheels still look new.