Discolored pipes

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I would spend less time with the header pipe and more time riding. The bronzing of the pipe is just an excepted effect. You just get used to it and move on. Gives the bike character and not much you can really do about it.

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Not so but Semichrome is not the answer. Semichrome will shine your pipes back up but the first time you ride it they will be bronze again. Real chrome will "rainbow" near the engine where the pipes get hottest. The answer is Jet-Hot polished finish. My 2013 CB1100 header has had this finish for a year and countless rides and they are still a bright shiny silver that looks like chrome or polished stainless. This is the only lasting solution to bronze pipes. Cheers.

Chip

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Not so but Semichrome is not the answer. Semichrome will shine your pipes back up but the first time you ride it they will be bronze again. Real chrome will "rainbow" near the engine where the pipes get hottest. The answer is Jet-Hot polished finish. My 2013 CB1100 header has had this finish for a year and countless rides and they are still a bright shiny silver that looks like chrome or polished stainless. This is the only lasting solution to bronze pipes. Cheers.

Chip

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Mine are filthy looking from bronzing/browning and have been just accepting fate. But the Hot Jet treatment is always in the back of my mind, especially at under $200. Is there a point where the headers are beyond the scope of Hot Jet? Can you just Hot Jet-away the bad colors? Or does it require additional expense to, I dunno, sandblast it first?