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Old 05-04-11 | 10:11 PM
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How about this instead of chrome?

https://xtremechrome.com/

It would be interesting to see how this would look and hold up on a bicycle frame.

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Old 05-04-11 | 10:15 PM
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Where's the drool emoticon?
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Old 05-04-11 | 10:26 PM
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What is that parking lot made of... feathers?
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Old 05-04-11 | 10:37 PM
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Old 05-04-11 | 10:39 PM
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My painter uses this and it looks really nice. It is not like chrome but a great fake. Expensive and a little delicate but I would use it on a refinish in place of re-chroming lugs or a fork crown.
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That Hyabusa is ridiculous. I wonder if it blinds people whilst riding down the highway.
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Old 05-05-11 | 09:04 PM
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Old 05-05-11 | 09:07 PM
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That Hyabusa is ridiculous. I wonder if it blinds people whilst riding down the highway.
I don't know but as many times as I dropped my GS1150ES back in the day there is no way I would put a finish like that on a bike. It wouldn't last 6 months. OTOH, I have haven't dropped a road bicycle in at least 15 years so I might be willing to chance it on a bicycle.
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Old 05-05-11 | 09:29 PM
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Personally, I think chrome should always be used as an accent unless your accents are a different color. In fact, I just stripped a frame down to the nice shiny metal for a repaint. Thought to myself, "if this is what a chrome bike looks like no thank you."

But that is just my opinion.
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Flat black is for accents.
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Flat black is for awesome.
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Oh yeah, that's going to look great with some fingerprints! They must have drawn inspiration from iPods.
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You can get a pretty close match to chrome with powdercoating, these are powdercoated Ford Racing valve covers.



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