What are your thoughts on polished frames?

Im contemplating polishing the frame on my rc45 hukrc rep.
But if i do the frame would i need to do the swinger and top yoke to for it to look right.

NOTE: joeys race bike im certain had just a standard finnish.
however his son gary recently restored his dads bike it now hangs back up in the bar, with a polished frame - that looks good imo.

It seems my friends, i have a dilemma.

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polished frame looks good imo, its just keeping the fker shiney that is a bore......

Is there a problem with your frame now? Does it look a mess?
Personally i would leave it as the polished frames i have seen on bikes that have been for sale have been in an accident of some sort. And why would you want to do it to a fantastic bike like an RC45?
Buy a shitter of a bike and polish that frame if you want to get it out of your system.

I'd leave it.. polished frames are a good idea but a practical ballache

cbr400rrn wrote: why would you want to do it to a fantastic bike like an RC45?

lol its an nc35 replica of the hukrc rc45. sorry thats bad wording on my original post.


the frame i have is in good nick, no damage.
just a thought that crossed my mind a few times is all. but i think im going to stay true to the bike as it was raced.

thanx for the input.

I've polished my frame - as others have said it is a massive ball ache to keep clean! Plus it took hours to do it initially, there are still parts that I'm still not happy with.
The frame is covered in a very hard protective lacquer which takes a lot of elbow grease to break through. The end result does look good though IMO :-)

Nowadays I'd keep the OE finish, but I did think the polished frame on my old RVF looked okay - that was probably down to how shiney everything else was on it though.