Honda CBX550 spoked wheels

As I promised, here is second part of  polished Honda CBX550 brake shields and cover photos. Oksana after  seeing these photos told me: “It’s not obvious why polishing of all those air intakes was so…
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Time for another portion of polished wheel’s parts photos. This time it’s brake shields and covers. As I wrote earlier, Honda CBX550 wheels’ parts are raw and never meant to be polished. Even counting that…
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Once I finished with Honda CBX550 wheel’ hubs polishing I gave hubs to the paintshop, where all unpolished surfaces were painted with same heat resistant paint I used for Honda CB815 engine. Why bother with…
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Another set of polished  parts, spokes adapters. They are flat and might look like easy game, but they are made of 2024 aluminium alloy and could be polished in true mirror, and  believe me, after…
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Good plan might be a great thing, yep,  just until it smashed to pieces in unexpected manner. I hoped to be quite ahead with wheels polishing for now, but instead I caught cold and I…
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Wheels polishing goes well but a bit slowly as I intend to achieve the best result. Meanwhile, here is a part of finished work, which directly  related to wheels. Honda CBX550 wheels with Inboard Ventilated…
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Remember my remark about the choice  of wheels’ colour in one of previous posts? With my intention to make them look even more resembling vintage sport drum’ brakes, the only answer for the question was…
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The wheels I plan to put on our Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer in their uniqueness and complexity might be as well called standalone project. Thus I decided to finish them before other stages of project,  partly…
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