End the Black Wheel Tyranny: Free the Motos!

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Let's just not return to the white wheels of the early '90s. I can't think of anything harder to keep clean. Except wire wheels.

Everything that is old becomes new again. In my college days, I drove poverty cars like Tercels and Corollas, with unpainted black plastic bumpers, mirrors and door handles. Once I curbed the wheels, the plastic hubcaps shattered, and I had black wheels.

Now, a "blackout package" on a car is a premium and exclusive feature. My friend's new Kia something-or-other is white, with painted black door handles, mirrors and wheels.

I look at a bike as a whole package. I have a 2012 Bonneville "Black edition", with black paint, frame and engine. The wheels and exhaust are still chrome, which I like. The following year or so, the Black Edition added black wheels and exhaust. That's too much black for me. But, I could see liking it if the bodywork were a different color to break up all of the black a bit.

I do think it's hard to compare Corolla steel rims with something like the Black Alloys on the new Subaru Forester Sports.

Theres an obvious difference in quality of a black wheel haha

2014 CB1100, 1981 KZ440 LTD, 1993 Yamaha XJ600 Seca, 1994 Yamaha XJ600 Seca

Very true on both counts!