Even I strike gold

Well, having a few links in store to view from time to time is pretty nice.
This one I´ve either forget about or it has been updated.
Load and loads of great BRATSTYLE bobbers.
Already had a lot of the pics on my own place at Flickr or on my hard drive but quite a few new and best of all, several pics of the bikes.
Nice pipes, nice seat cowl from Bratstyle if I´m not wrong (you can buy it yourself from their homepage.

Now THAT is a narrow bike. Very neat paint job on the tank.

So check it out for yourself, but make sure you have plenty of time because you will be there for a long log time.

As for my own bike, the side covers on the engine is shining like crazy now. Polishing is dirty but the result is fantastic. The surface is so smooth that it feels like nothing is going to stick to it, apart from the wax that I will apply later. Pics will come.

Polishing guides

Well, as you might have read in previous posts, it´s polishing time now while I await some parts and having the tank prepped for paint.
If you are in to polishing parts of your bike, these guides might be very useful.
The one that requires the most elbow grease is this one.
The methods used here makes you able to get cast aluminium to shine like crome.
The before picture, intake manifold for a Supra.
And after of course. Damn that is so much work but the result speaks for itself.

The other link is also very useful but here it´s more use of polishing machines and very good guide to what kind of buffer wheels and compounds to be used on different materials and stages of polishing.

Just a warning, once you start polishing stuff, it´s addictive and you might have to polish everything as unpolished parts look extremely dull.
Once it´s done, you will find that dirt doesn´t stick as easy to the polished parts and as long as you wax it every now and then, you will have a very nice finish to it.

My ISP sucks so here it comes after a slight delay.

Work on my bike slowly but surely comes along pretty nicely.
Polishing all aluminium and stainless steel parts will take some time.
One hell of a dirty work and quite time consuming as well.

Not that I aim for a too shiny bike, but selected parts will sparkle like the stars.
Some bikes shine more than others.

Not that it isn´t nice, just not my thing. Imagine washing it after a few days of driving...

Well, back to my bike for another polishing hour or so.