I tried some of those adhesive wheel trim strips a week or so back. Tricky. Lots of patience required. Plus mine came with one end hacked up on a couple of the "quarters" so they didn't meet. Pissed me off pretty badly so I trashed them. However, I could tell they would have looked great on my color scheme if they had been long enough.

Anyone had any long term experience with them? Will they last? Should I try again?

Maybe I should just get some paint and lift each end and carefully spin the wheels and apply it. Anyone tried that?

 

Yup - had mine on for about 3 years now - a decent set of rim stripes generally comes with one extra piece...?? Did they sell you the correct length ones ? (Not a joke, they come in different lengths and the circumference changes to accommodate diff size rims) No problem with them at all.
There was a post a while back on the main forum on how to make an applicator so they go on straight.......................

 

I think you'd need a very steady hand to paint them on . If you have previous experience painting coach lines that may help , but I'd have the white spirits and an old rag on standby

 

LMAO...........Have a good look in my album at my wheel stripes!Its a sht job to do Steve!The Exhaust is in the damn way

 

Adhesive , then when you wanna change them it easier to get them off!

 

I just received mine in the mail this week. I did a little searching on here on found that TAPE WORKS had the ones I wanted. I bought the Red Reflective. Now If I can just get a few more hours in a day I will put them on. I thought when I put her up for the winter I would take the rims off and do it.

 

take a look at mine for an ideas what it does on an 88

 

I did Dragon it looks good IMO. I saw alot of the 600's did it, thats what got the ball rolling for me.

 

House if you are going to try again, check out http://www.tapeworks.com/. They have matching colors to honda colors or any other bike you may have.