Silver wheels - Unpopular opinion

queen of spodes 10/4/2020 9:47am
10/4/2020 9:47am
Shezzy557 wrote:
Silver wheels with a colour matched hub (blue for yamaha, red for honda etc.) Is the look factories need to go for
I love blue and green on the KX's. Here's my 2007


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mxracer828 10/4/2020 10:36am
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I had gold rims with the gold talon hubs on my 03 cr250. Still my fav combo
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OtotheB178 10/5/2020 9:09am
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Gold for that 80's look but silver are so much easier to maintain the look of!

If i rode a honda or Kwak i'd definitely run the old school blue seat cover and gold rims look
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I think black rims would look way better especially because black and red go so well together, Would be cool to see red rims with black hubs come stock or at least red and silver hubs. I change my own tires and yes it is annoying having to be careful but if you are good it's not too hard to do and I'd probably not buy a gas gas just cause of the silver rims. I lived through the silver rim era so to me it just looks blah and old. PPL here may not agree but I bet the sales #'s would be more for gas gas if they had colored rims.
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Motofinne 11/19/2020 10:06am
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The picture sucks but i liked the silver/blue wheels i had on my YZ250F!


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Whymee 11/19/2020 5:03pm
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mxracer828 wrote:
I had gold rims with the gold talon hubs on my 03 cr250. Still my fav combo
Another vote for gold on gold action.
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It’s kind of funny how certain bikes look better with certain colors on the wheels! For one, I have a hard time liking black wheels on vintage-bikes.

And even though the Gasgas looks clean with silver rims, it looks a bit ”tame” IMO, so I really dig the TLD-look, with black rims and also the little bit of yellow and blue on the graphics.



As already said, gold/yellow rims on a Suzuki always looks so good, but sometimes black looks really cool to (even though I’m not supermuch into black plastic and frames)!




I really like the look of this RJ-inspired YZ by Ping/Racer X!



And a couple if Hondas!



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Yeti831 11/25/2020 10:18am
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Shezzy557 wrote:
Silver wheels with a colour matched hub (blue for yamaha, red for honda etc.) Is the look factories need to go for
^ this

A friend of mine just laced up some silver Excels to some blue Kite hubs w/ blue nipples on his yz450f and holy crap does it look clean.

Considering doing the same to my Kawi once the black DIDs are toasted.
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GeorgiePorgie 11/25/2020 12:06pm
11/25/2020 12:06pm Edited Date/Time 11/25/2020 12:07pm
mxracer828 wrote:
I had gold rims with the gold talon hubs on my 03 cr250. Still my fav combo
Whymee wrote:
Another vote for gold on gold action. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/11/19/460344/s1200_IMG_3371.jpg[/img]
Another vote for gold on gold action.
Gold is where it’s at. Always was, always will be.

Steve romans suzuki with his wheels was real sick this year. Not old school gold but like 05 carmicael gold Wheels style.
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motoXracer971 wrote:
Just got these... [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/11/25/461685/s1200_737F096E_FB57_4539_8A8A_A38CD028C6B4.jpg[/img] To go with these... [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/11/25/461687/s1200_DC5B5003_CB3D_48E3_8F99_8BE50C7640D2.jpg[/img]
Just got these...


To go with these...


Sweet, that will look great! 👌
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Lastander wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/10/02/452255/s1200_2981A43B_0E63_480E_A5DB_1314FF5736CB.jpg[/img] Silver rims and red hubs matter



Silver rims and red hubs matter
Looks great!
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queen of spodes 1/19/2021 3:19pm
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When was the last manufacturer/team to run SILVER rims in Supercross or Nationals? (not blue, yellow, gold or other color)
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queen of spodes wrote:
When was the last manufacturer/team to run SILVER rims in Supercross or Nationals? (not blue, yellow, gold or other color)
On a factory team probably 2013 with HRC.

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I like how things are now: the black rims on KTM/Husky/Gasgas, the blue rims on Yamaha and the gold rims on Suzuki.

The only thing that I'd like to see, would be that Honda brings back the light gold rim from 85/87 Honda. To me that a perfect match with the Honda (Why not bringing back the Flash Red color on Honda, that would set well between the orange KTM and the cherry red Gasgas)
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Shezzy557 wrote:
With Gas Gas running silver wheels is a silver wheel comeback on the horizon?? Personally I'm over black wheels, 50+ hours and half a dozen tyre...
With Gas Gas running silver wheels is a silver wheel comeback on the horizon??
Personally I'm over black wheels, 50+ hours and half a dozen tyre changes and they dont look as near as nice as a clean, polished set of silver wheels..
I prefer gold. Silver comes in second.
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MCarthur wrote:
I like how things are now: the black rims on KTM/Husky/Gasgas, the blue rims on Yamaha and the gold rims on Suzuki. The only thing that...
I like how things are now: the black rims on KTM/Husky/Gasgas, the blue rims on Yamaha and the gold rims on Suzuki.

The only thing that I'd like to see, would be that Honda brings back the light gold rim from 85/87 Honda. To me that a perfect match with the Honda (Why not bringing back the Flash Red color on Honda, that would set well between the orange KTM and the cherry red Gasgas)
These 2 didn't look bad:


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Brown magnesium hubs on whatever color rim you want. Cool
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DJS721 2/26/2021 9:26am
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DJS721 wrote:
Bought the new KX450 and not a fan of the black rims....these will be silver in the near future Black frames, plastic, wheels....on dirt bikes is...
Bought the new KX450 and not a fan of the black rims....these will be silver in the near future

Black frames, plastic, wheels....on dirt bikes is just a bad idea IMO




Not the best view of the rims, but so happy to eliminate the black...
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mxaaron 2/26/2021 12:47pm
2/26/2021 12:47pm Edited Date/Time 2/26/2021 12:48pm
Man all you guys need the Baja no pinch tire tool! I've got three bikes with black wheels, no scratches. Now the donut ring at the edge, that's a different story. That's what the black paint pen is for.
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mxaaron 2/26/2021 12:50pm
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DJS721 wrote:
Bought the new KX450 and not a fan of the black rims....these will be silver in the near future Black frames, plastic, wheels....on dirt bikes is...
Bought the new KX450 and not a fan of the black rims....these will be silver in the near future

Black frames, plastic, wheels....on dirt bikes is just a bad idea IMO
DJS721 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/02/26/480458/s1200_292297F2_F11A_4F87_BEAA_79EE9775253E.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/02/26/480459/s1200_A01F3E8A_DA6B_4A44_A091_5B403636DF85.jpg[/img] Not the best view of the rims, but so happy to eliminate the black...




Not the best view of the rims, but so happy to eliminate the black...
From one Kawy guy to another, I gotta say that looks great actually.
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cartel 2/26/2021 1:38pm
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I think this is a generational thing. Growing up (born in '82), every bike seemed to have silver rims stock, so of course I wanted black rims, and that still persists today. However, if I was doing a retro-build, I absolutely spec some nice silver hoops.

Speaking of black rims losing their finish, does anyone have a technique for restoring some shine? I have a set of A60's that look like a bead-blaster was taken to them. I was thinking of simply re-lacing them, but if I could polish them I'd try that first.

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