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GS1000 Fork cover resto

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Hi

Just thought I would share my experience with the front lower yoke cover off my GS1000,

I tried to think of ways to restore it as new, I looked at plastic Chrome, Painting Chrome all of which cost alot of money so after a little thinking I ended up with a bit of a light bulb moment...:dancing:

I sanded the stripes with 1500 grit paper and cleaned with panel wipe...I then used some 2" wide chrome tape bought off Ebay for ?2 for a meter strip and used a super sharp scalpel to cut the recesses out of the moulding to just leave a well stuck chrome strip on the raised stripes..

Then a quick polish with Black shoe polish and it now looks like new....View attachment 15965View attachment 15966
 
My friend, that is one great 'looking' solution you have shown us!
 
A cheap looking plastic part on our 1000's in my opinion.
I will use a chrome one from another Suzuki when I take the forks down.
If doing a restore,different story.
 
Measure the width of the stripe area. Larry ( Nvr2old ) had suggested that I used some 1/8 or so chrome pinstriping tape.
 
That would work too, I looked into pinstripe tape but it was actually more expensive than wider tape but if you can find it great!!!! :)
 
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