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500 K cafe racer conversion - build thread
kendo57:
Personally i would go with stainless rims but i am not a big fan of chrome. Once it starts
to pit there is not much you can do with it and the stainless rims are highly polished these days so
they look like chrome.
Ewan 500 K1:
--- Quote from: clive on January 28, 2012, 10:23:59 AM ---sorry to hijack the the thread, but ive been following it, as i'm thinking of replacing mine with new rims and spokes, what do you think of the quality of dss rims and where did you get the spoke wrench from. any advice would be appreciated.
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Clive, spoke wrench came from http://dirtbikestore.co.uk. They have a couple of different models. In hindsight I think I should have got stainless rims and spokes myself
z1100r:
I thought about stainless too. Then i thought nargh sod it, whats the point...the bike wont be out in the salty wet again, it certainly wont be left parked in the rain all day and all night for 25 years. The std front chrome rim lasted from 1975 until 2010. I'll be long dead before another chrome rim is knackered. Polish it up with some waxy stuff every now and then they'll be fine I thought.
Plus, the rims I got from DS were dead true, with perfect length spokes making them an absolute doddle to assemble, and considering how much I was panicing about doing it before hand, I was sure glad it all fitted together so well.
I've seen them down at Central Wheel 'bending' and hammering spokes to get them to clear the hub, with great lengths of thread comming out of some and others clinging on with only a couple of threads. I had my Enfied wheels done there using Akront rims and stainless spokes. This was early 90's. They cost me a fortune and came back sh*t. The front hub was so distorted I could'nt get the backplates in with the shoes on. I had to loosen all spokes and start again...a bloody joke.
Stainless looks nothing like chrome, its alot duller, I wanted my Honda back to mega bling again.
kendo57:
--- Quote ---Stainless looks nothing like chrome, its alot duller
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That used to be the case but not these days
UK Pete:
WOW do they do stainless for the 750
pete
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