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jijifer
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Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
Voodoo 2009 Buddy 125- aka 161
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 Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:28 pm Post subject: Would St. Tropez Rims |
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a) fit my baby blue 125
b) rust less because they are painted
c) look ok with the baby blue color?
my stock rims rusted almost over night. No rust 2 weeks ago and lots today. weird.
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Kaos
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Joined: 19 May 2008
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Location: Portland, OR
'08 vOoDoO Buddy 270cc,'74 Vespa Super with 200cc Rally180 Engine, '89 Honda CB-1 400cc Cafe
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Yep, they'll fit fine. The 150's use the same rims as the 125's.
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jasondavis48108
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Joined: 24 Apr 2009
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Location: Ann Arbor
2008 Buddy Little Italia, 2010 Honda sh150i
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Just tell folsk to be careful when mounting tires on them. My 50 has little bits of rust around the edge of the rim after getting a new set of tires cause they chipped the paint in the process  I figure its only a matter of time before I have them powder coated anyway though.
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Dean F
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Location: Chicago/Hinsdale
2008 Pamplona 150
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Has anyone had them chrome plated?
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jasondavis48108
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Location: Ann Arbor
2008 Buddy Little Italia, 2010 Honda sh150i
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| Dean F wrote: | | Has anyone had them chrome plated? |
I looked into it, holy crap was it expensive, like several hundred dollars expensive.
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jfrost2
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Joined: 17 Feb 2008
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Location: Somewhere in Ohio, Maybe.
First Ever Sold Orange 08' Buddy 125
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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I did this in photoshop in a second. I just took the wheels off the st. tropez from the genuine website, and pasted them onto the body of the baby blue standard 125.
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jmkjr72
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Joined: 11 Jul 2009
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Location: green bay wi
stella and a zuma
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| jasondavis48108 wrote: | | Dean F wrote: | | Has anyone had them chrome plated? |
I looked into it, holy crap was it expensive, like several hundred dollars expensive. |
yes chrome can be very expensive
plating it is very labor intensive
first they will have to make every thing picture perfect fill the low spots with lead buff things out
then the cleaning process
then the plating process
then after that is all done then they have to go back buff and shine and if there are any defects go back and do it all again
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jasondavis48108
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Location: Ann Arbor
2008 Buddy Little Italia, 2010 Honda sh150i
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but I have heard that some folks are now power coating things chrome so you can get the chrome look, just not the chrome durability for significantly less money. I havn't seen anything powder caoted this way myself so I'm not sure just how much like chrome it really looks.
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JSharpPhoto
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Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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Location: Dallas
1974 Vespa 150 Sprint V. (177cc)
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i would vote for powder coat. it's virtually rust proof, and corrosion proof. perfect for the one part of your scooter that's also touching the ground.
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bigbropgo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:57 am Post subject: |
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You can color match the powder coat pretty easy for touch up. Say no to chrome.
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jfrost2
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First Ever Sold Orange 08' Buddy 125
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Chrome would look amazing, but then wear and weather away quickly with all the dust and grime on the road.
Powder coating would make your rims look invincible and good on day 1000 as they did on day 1.
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jasondavis48108
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Location: Ann Arbor
2008 Buddy Little Italia, 2010 Honda sh150i
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| bigbropgo wrote: | | You can color match the powder coat pretty easy for touch up. Say no to chrome. |
why no chrome?
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ScooterTrash
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Location: Idaho Falls, ID
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Just paint yours, the new ones will scratch / chip when installing tires. It's almost impossible to avoid. Your stock wheels are painted silver, same thing will happen to the blue ones. You need to clean your wheels more often because of the salt content in your air 
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laxer
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