What to do first?

[keand3]

Man you must like to clean. black wheels don't show brake dust but white ride once clean for a week.

I might fall under the category of a perfectionist, and they might need more cleaning then others, but then again white rims just look awesome!!! 

[oldktmdude]

Man you must like to clean. black wheels don't show brake dust but white ride once clean for a week.

I might fall under the category of a perfectionist, and they might need more cleaning then others, but then again white rims just look awesome!!! 

I'm with you Ken, love the white wheel look but I'm not that keen about cleaning!   Pete. 

[WhiteBeard]

I would love to see how them beauties look on the bike.

When summer comes, I'll have to decide whether to polish my new rims or send them off to get powdercoated.

I'm leaning towards polishing...

[FJmonkey]

I would love to see how them beauties look on the bike.

When summer comes, I'll have to decide whether to polish my new rims or send them off to get powdercoated.

I'm leaning towards polishing...

You could polish then acrylic powder coat in clear, easier to keep clean. All the wheel manufacturers do this.

[keand3]

    I'm with you Ken, love the white wheel look but I'm not that keen about cleaning!   Pete. 

I don't mind the cleaning but if i really did like to clean i would have bought my self a Harley and not a FJ

Have some friends of mine and they all drive Harley. Taking a ride with them consist of two things,
A 1 hour drive, and three hours with cleaning and beer. I could do the beer but not the cleaning.

Cheers

[Dan Filetti]

As others have said, and I can attest to personally, white wheels are a pain in the ass.  I have frequently wanted to smack the Japanese design engineer guy that thought, "you know what the GSX-R 750 needs? -White wheels!"  Seriously, they are tough to keep clean, especially the front.  Trying to work around the rotors without getting any cleaning solution or polish on the rotors is a first class pain in the ass. 

They do look good though.

Good luck.

Dan

[keand3]

I think the Japanese engineer had a bad day at work

Yes keeping unwanted substances away from the rotors will be a challenge. But for now i think its worth it, it will be an upertunety to a have a beer
Don't ask me after the summer though, might have change my mind by then.

Cheers
Ken

[craigo]

When I got my FJ from the PO, it had white wheels. Now they are black. Though the white wheels looked nice, they were a major pain to keep clean and never really got clean. Always some dirt stuck in the hard to get to recesses and defied me at every turn.  The black hides a lot of sins.

CraigO

[keand3]

When I got my FJ from the PO, it had white wheels. Now they are black. Though the white wheels looked nice, they were a major pain to keep clean and never really got clean. Always some dirt stuck in the hard to get to recesses and defied me at every turn.  The black hides a lot of sins.

CraigO

Black is nice too, and yes hiding of sins is a big plus 
Might just consider it if I were to change color sometime in the future..

[SlowOldGuy]

Just don't bother cleaning them and they will eventually turn black all on their own.  :-)

DavidR.

[Dan Filetti]

Just don't bother cleaning them and they will eventually turn black all on their own.  :-)

DavidR.

Hearing that advice from you David, makes it that much more funny.

Dan

[SlowOldGuy]

Thanks Dan, I guess I should have waited for Dean to relay that advice.   :-)

The EBC Kevlar pads that I recently installed on my front wheel are driving me crazy.  They cover the entire front end and engine with black dust after only a few hundred miles.  And, I don't brake that often or hard while riding around here.  This is just coming to normal stops.

I've had these Kevlar pads waiting to go on forever, but I might go ahead and make the swap to the HH pads if they don't settle down.

DavidR.

[fj11.5]

the first gsxr wheel i had was white, if it would of cleaned up i would of painted the front wheel to match,  but white is a bastard as everyone has said

[keand3]

Regarding my front wheels, they were $10 over the free customs import fee and sales tax limit...
The result?
A bill sent by Norwegian customs by mail one week later on $50 for handling fee and import fee... (the rim cost $35)......

Thank good for beer!

Cheers
Ken

[keand3]

Ken, yes there are so many mods and if time and money are limited and you can't do everything at once consider some sort of order like safety, reliability, comfort, performance and convenience.

Safety: better front brakes and lines, which you've done, 17"wheels for better rubber F & R. better headlight if you ride at night and better blinkers and stop/tail even if you don't, better mirrors and depending how bad yours is, suspension.
Reliability: carb o'haul and screw kit, petcock upgrade, relays to the coils and lights and a late model starter, oil cooler.
Comfort: Suspension, seat, depending on you and where you live, handlebar risers and heated grips, better screen, vibranators and good riding gear.
Performance: Air filters, jetting, exhausts, red and white paint job, expensive oil, gearing.
Convenience: Spin on filter adapter, power outlet, hardwired GPS and phone mounts, blutooth, good tank bag and luggage.

There is probably heaps more and everbody has different priorities but just think, after safety, what is going to make this bike more fun to ride.

My bike is a '93 and only had 34,000k's on it when I bought it but the first thing I did was dismantle it until there was only the motor sitting in the frame and the wiring loom.  I did this mostly to detail it, it had come from a farm at the end of a dirt road, and do fork seals, wash, repack and adjust the head stem bearings and rear suspension linkages and check ever nut and bolt on it.

Myself and a lot of others here are very happy with the Delkevic slip ons. They are very reasonably priced and I love the look and the sound of them.



DISCLAIMER: This is not intended to be an absolute list of what and which order things should be done and while everyone is free to make their own suggestions, this is merely something I did myself to establish priorities and was somewhat fluid depending on time, money and weather. Don't start correcting it or we'll end up with another oil thread, it is only a suggestion.

Noel

Okey, been checking up a bit on new slip-ons for my bike, and planing on doing it this summer. It looks like most of the slip-ons i have found will interfer with the luggage bags. Is there any specific model for ex. from Delkevic that is a bit lower or similar to stock in height?
I might have been looking at wrong types though but i see the FJ UK site offers a Beowulf that fit with luggage..