The CB1100 Community Forum

I like the looks of the siver wheels a lot more than the black wheels and I am trying to find out from the UK CB1100 forum if their wheels are painted silver on the rough castings like ours in black or if their wheels are polished which I doubt.
If it is just silver paint than I see no reason why we can't just paint our wheels silver as well.On a rough casting it is easy to brush paint as you will hardly see any brush marks.
I am even thinking of buying a spare set of wheels in the USA and paint them and keep the first set as original for if I ever sell the bike (hopefully I will ride this bike for a very long time as it is so light to handle)
Ofcourse I hope that Honda will bring out a 2014 model with a black tank but silver wheels and engine.

you could have them powder coated silver like Silas did for his root beer ones. I think he said it was under $200. Of course that doesnt get you the silver engine or black tank.

(08-14-2013, 11:06 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: [ -> ]you could have them powder coated silver like Silas did for his root beer ones. I think he said it was under $200. Of course that doesnt get you the silver engine or black tank.

If I have them powder coated I will loose the polished rim and have to take out all the bearings.But it probably would last longer than paint.
New wheels are not all that expensive from Western Honda and the painting I can do myself over the winter.
The bike was not expensive to buy but we are spending a lot of money to make it ours !!!

what you can do is use paint stripper and remove the black paint to get to the aluminum part of the wheel and polish it. Done that on old wheels and so does friends ive known , a little labor but works..

excited to see the final product!!

Polishing might be an option but I think to safe money Honda left the painted parts a little rough (also better paint adherence) and I think because of this polishing could be a very time consuming job.