sv650 stripped and being cleaned/polished

Hi people!
Thought i'd share the current progress of my strip and rebuild of my 2001 curvy.
I decided a few weeks ago that I was going to polish the frame, swingarm etc. and also do something with the wheels as they are lets face it, a bit boring!!
Started first by taking the wheels off and stripping them back to metal and had a bit of a play around with polishing them and painting the middles, more to get an idea of what i want for the final result later on than anything.
these are a few pictures of the wheels


masked and paint stripper applied, this stuff really doesn't hang about!



Then this is after paint stripper and a bit of white spirit and a cloth, surprising how good they look just after stripping paint off.


Then decided to try it with the inner parts painted gold to see how that looked as hopefully going for a black and gold look eventually on the whole bike.


Oh and if you've ever wondered what to do with your old mcn papers when you've finished reading them a million times over and memorised every page(oops sorry, is that just me??), use them for masking!!!

And after however many coats of paint and lacquer and elbow grease later, this is what I ended up with!
Not bad for a trial to see what I thought?

That's all for the wheels anyway, now onto the next part!!!!
This is where I began to cry as I saw my baby disappear into tubs!!!

damm im likin the chrome round the edges looks fantastic!

what did u use to get it to chrome.... i think it would be somthing id like to try at some point

[DarrenSV650S]

Paint stripper! Read the post

good call was too busy lookin at the photos to notice the writing in between

Being very picky now as they look fantastic, but any chance you could grind all the writing off of the wheel struts? Give them a nice clean look then.

i like those, might have a go at polish the bike next week , got the autosol and just got to find that elbow grease
"now where did i put that"

daaaaamn dude thats brill looking.... certainly not boring anymore, and i especially like the chrome around the edges, well done!!

[Wideboy]

that is forkin sweet!

will having no paint on the wheels not mean they will corrode?