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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.

Yep, they'll fit fine. The 150's use the same rims as the 125's.

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.

Has anyone had them chrome plated?

Dean F wrote:Has anyone had them chrome plated?

I looked into it, holy crap was it expensive, like several hundred dollars expensive.

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.

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

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.

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.

You can color match the powder coat pretty easy for touch up. Say no to chrome.

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.

bigbropgo wrote:You can color match the powder coat pretty easy for touch up. Say no to chrome.

why no chrome?

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

I got my rims painted at the local shop and they turned out great!

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(yes, this is just an excuse to show off my finished RatJack...)