Nice job! While on the subject of aluminum polishing.. use this stuff... "English Custom Polish". It's the best polish there is. You will only have to touch up polish your wheels twice a year verses 50 times a year with "over the counter" type metal polishes.

English Custom Polish.... get some! Google is your friend.

 

It is possible to polish a frame without stripping the bike down to nothing.

Use Aircraft paint stripper. Remove the mid and lower fairings. Use plastic painters sheeting to mask off all areas you don't want paint stripper to drip onto... ie: everything. Once your done stripping get a squirt bottle with water and spray it all over the frame to stop the chemical reaction of the stripper. Wash the frame and leave the plastic masking on the bike. Rinse it all off with water. This stripper is NASTY stuff so read the directions and don't get it an anything but the frame. Now go to town polishing. There are some good articles on the internet on how to do it. You'll need an electric 6 or 8 inch hand held buffer and the appropriate wheels and compounds.

 

OUCH... don't polish the spokes on a CBR rim.. they will look dull and grey now matter how much you polish. Looks like crap.

 

were did you find how to do this im wanting to do mine.

 

The actual process with pics is on another forum. With permission from moderators I can post the link but I think if I did it now they would delete it. Letme know.

 

i also polished my wheels on my old bike... heres some pics. what i did was use some brake cleaner to spray the black part off the lip. let it absorb and the black paint would flake off this only happend on the rear wheel.. and i got it done pretty quickly the front wheel was all bad.. teh spray thing didnt work so i had to sand it and the edge are not fun to do at all.. but it turned out quite nicely i think heres a pic of the rear wheel that thing was on bling

 

i'm thinking of doing the same thing with my 929 .. so what would be the easier way to do it on the 929 the f4 took me about 3 days to get done.
whats the best sandpaper to use?

 

i'm in the process of doing it..i went out and bought that aircraft remover stuff the spray can.. works like a charm i got one side done i'll post pics of the results but its lookin nice

 

i finished up one side front and back the erion with the chrome looks SICK. i'll try to get pics up

aircraft remover works beaaautifully

 

Im just curious but I finished my back wheel with masking tape but I noticed a few people said to use duct tape. Anyone have a preference or is one better than the other? Duct vs. masking?