Changing Black Forks To Silver/bare Ali

The old hairdryer trick for the reflectors or some use dental floss and a solvent to clean off the residue either way
Then mask up and spray the legs silver sorted

 

The over spray is the easiest and cheapest as any other option requires a strip down but your choice

 

Mine are painted

 

You do need to do this. Having a bike with lots of exposed polished ali is a rite of passage. It's a necessary step on the curve.

*buys more stock in solvol*

 

These were originally black, cleaned them up using various grades of wet and dry paper, 400 to 2000 grit. Finished off with good old Solvol.

 

I used a lot of solvol on this

 

Aye, and polished again, and again, and again, and...........
All very nice but wayyyyy too much TLC required for my liking.

 

Like I said above, part of the learning curve

 

True Gladtobebackontwowheels, but very therapeutic in these times of lockdown , can't beat a bit of a rub now and again

 

Find a local polisher who'll do it in a fraction of the time of faffing about with wet and dry and Autosol etc. I had a brushed alloy Fireblade silencer done to a mirror finish years ago and it didn't cost much at all really. We're lucky here in Sheffield in having quite a few metal working/refinishing workshops, at least we had back then!

 

In the spirit of full disclosure, the maintenance was buckets of solvol but the finish was due to having access to a three phase polishing mop