misha misha

they were actually white with black hubs and black spokes and nipples.

I had to strip the paint, slightly sand them with 600 wet and up, and buffed away. SO, now im going to relace them with same original black hubs and stainles steel silver spokes, silver nipples.

got em off ebay too, a while ago.

johnnytheboy

i bought some high polished dp-18's this weekend and love em.

misha misha

we put my friends campy fork on his 55 and it was 11 inches between the wheels..

Thetank

Sounds like too much damn work! 10 minutes to polish with this:



Comes out like this:

ZiP0082

^what headset is that?

misha misha

nice, i should of bought polished in the begining. But i was "into" different things back then, i guess...
hows the finish on them?

misha misha

yes if your wheels were polished in the beginning...

my wheels were white when i got them... I dont see any other way to make white wheels polished

Thetank

Nope, wrong buddy here's the wheels when I got them



This is after the Jasco paint remover and the polish I posted above

Thetank

Its a pretty basic cane creek 1 1/8" headset nothing fancy at all.

misha misha

oh i see, well it just sounded that you just polished them and all in all it took you only 10 min. You didnt mention you had to strip paint as well. And im changing everything and rebuilding the wheels so its a bit of a different story.

Thetank

Oh I was referring to the polish process, using that stuff you don't have to sand the wheel at all.

Anyways here's my Kilo after chopping the steerer and adding my track drops and a thomson stem I scored at a swap meet.

JayNev

****! now i wanna do that to my veeps! ahhh. how dull was it when u stripped the paint? minimal work with the polish to get it like that? wow, impressed

lonelyfoe

that is one slick whip. lovin it. dug the blue wheels though. why'd you decide to polish them and lose the color?

misha misha

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really ncie bike
what ratio?

yea you want your wheels nice and dull before you sturt buffing

johnnytheboy

They're beautiful.
When I ordered them, my madison was set up ss, not fixed, so I got both of them machined.
Well, when they came in the mail I decided to "fix" the madison.
You really can't tell a difference between the machined sidewall and the high polished rim, except the sidewall has tiny grooves in it- doesn't look bad at all imo, and still gives me the option to throw on a freewheel and run a rear brake.
See the "track" in my sig to check em out.

johnnytheboy

Tank, is that the thomson that had a slight crack in the faceplate, or did you find another one there?
I almost bought it and sent the faceplate in for a replacement.
There was a guy that got there after you guys left that had a 27.2 black thomson post and a black thomson stem for $35ea brand new.

misha misha

looks good my friend! mine are machined as well, you cant tell the difference, i agree. Looks like we've got a very similar wheel set now

Steve90068

are those stock wheels with the sidewall painted???? if so what kind of paint did you use and did you only paint the machined part? they look awesome

Thetank

The wheel was dull in color from the paint stripper but the polish compound I used took care of all the chemicals left behind, even though Jasco is pretty much removed with water. The polish is just a large cloth that you rip a piece off it and you apply the polish to the metal until it turns black, then you take a clean rag and buff it out.

I went with polished cause I got the bike with those wheels and even though I loved that color I though it would look better all silver since the hubs were silver as well.

Thanks, I'm running 46x17

I hope it doesn't have a crack! *runs out to check!*
No it doesn't have any damage, I got it from the guy who was set up by the stage that was selling the expresso. Got it for $30 so I can't complain.

Thetank

Yes those are the stock wheels painted black. I scuffed up the original paint and covered the spokes in masking tape and painted the whole wheel instead of just the machined brake surface so the paint would match throughout. I used pretty basic Krylon paint from wal-mart that was a satin finish (Semi-gloss or semi-flat).

530farm

did you take apart and the wheel strip the paint off the deep v's or did you do it built up and all

BikeDad

Thetank, which Thomson stem is that on your Kilo?

misha misha

i stripped mine(but im chainging spokes and nipples as well) you can do it build

flam

finally got to ride my kilo in the snow/ice yesterday and it was probably the most fun i've ever had on a bike

Eastspur

Thomson + Brooks looks funny to me for some reason. Other than that it looks like mine. 90mm stem?