Mr. ED wrote:Lars, don't shoot me , but I think black tires will look better onhere after-all.
The combination of broken -white with bright white is just not working out that well.
White lettering on the tire walls though...
natural, but try running a red line on the edge : so you have black tire with white lettering ( ), thin stripe of silver , red line, thin strip e of silver and then the wheel goes inward
Mr. ED wrote:natural, but try running a red line on the edge : so you have black tire with white lettering ( ), thin stripe of silver , red line, thin strip e of silver and then the wheel goes inward
Now that would look cool! If you could do that, I would.
Mr. ED wrote:natural, but try running a red line on the edge : so you have black tire with white lettering ( ), thin stripe of silver , red line, thin strip e of silver and then the wheel goes inward
Now that would look cool! If you could do that, I would.
That would be tricky: There is no lettering on the tires and to get the striping right on the wheels wouldn’t be easy… I have to give this some thought….
Mr. ED wrote:natural, but try running a red line on the edge : so you have black tire with white lettering ( ), thin stripe of silver , red line, thin strip e of silver and then the wheel goes inward
Now that would look cool! If you could do that, I would.
Here's another idea that would be easier to accomplish: you could sand off the red anodizing from the outer lip of the red wheels, then polish it. As that lip has a 90-degree angle with the part of the wheel going inwards, it would be easy to do without messing up the rest of the inner anodizing, and you'd end up with a nice, shiny polished outer rim to contrast with the red wheel interiors and chrome spinners. And, it'd be unique because I doubt anybody has done that already.
Mr. ED wrote:natural, but try running a red line on the edge : so you have black tire with white lettering ( ), thin stripe of silver , red line, thin strip e of silver and then the wheel goes inward
Now that would look cool! If you could do that, I would.
Here's another idea that would be easier to accomplish: you could sand off the red anodizing from the outer lip of the red wheels, then polish it. As that lip has a 90-degree angle with the part of the wheel going inwards, it would be easy to do without messing up the rest of the inner anodizing, and you'd end up with a nice, shiny polished outer rim to contrast with the red wheel interiors and chrome spinners. And, it'd be unique because I doubt anybody has done that already.
I agree sounds good too. For either: just clamp a 4 or 5 mm axle (or whatever you're using for bearing size) in a vice and spin the wheel while you keep some polish or a red marker steady on one point. If it fails you wipe it off and try again
Mr. ED wrote:I agree sounds good too. For either: just clamp a 4 or 5 mm axle (or whatever you're using for bearing size) in a vice and spin the wheel while you keep some polish or a red marker steady on one point. If it fails you wipe it off and try again
That's a good idea, here's another along the same line of thinking:
Mr. ED wrote:I agree sounds good too. For either: just clamp a 4 or 5 mm axle (or whatever you're using for bearing size) in a vice and spin the wheel while you keep some polish or a red marker steady on one point. If it fails you wipe it off and try again
That's a good idea, here's another along the same line of thinking:
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My name is Fredrik. I live in Sweden with my wife and daughter.
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