Fork chroming

[Kev L]

Apart from AM Philpot in Luton, does anyone know of a company that would be able to hard chrome the fork lowers of my 954 USD forks?
Nothing against Philpot's, they did good work on my GT250 forks, but just interested to assess options and prices.
Cheers in anticipation.

[benny hedges]

http://www.pittedforks.co.uk have a good rep.

oh sorry - thay are aka philpotts lol!
i did find nother place and posted it here somewhere.... maybe search 'pitted' with my name.

tbh for less £ you could take the stanchions to a local precision engineer and get a stainless set made up. its only a threaded tube...

failing that, wemoto & silvers can sell you new ones. its not much dearer than rechroming.

[Kev L]

Cheers Benny, that link is to AM Philpot's (pitted forks). I like the idea of Stainless tubes but are they as efficient/strong as hard chrome? The only reason I ask is I haven't heard of stanchions made of anything other than hard chromed steel ( I have led a very sheltered life!!!).

[agentpineapple]

i would love to get my 954 usd's done in gold, you can't get better than gold...........good luck with your search kev.....

[thumperslaw]

http://www.allbikeengineering.co.uk/

Used these guys alot and always been very helpful and fast turn around

[Kev L]

Thanks for that Thumper I have used them before, about 10 years ago now, however someone on here recently had a bad time with some shoddy fork tubes from them.

[nora2004]

Thanks for that Thumper I have used them before, about 10 years ago now, however someone on here recently had a bad time with some shoddy fork tubes from them.

That was me, shocking quality and even worse service from them, bunch of monkeys springs to mind! I ended up with some from Wemoto, made by some Italian company, cant remember their name, but there top notch, side by side to OEM and not a difference at all!

[Kev L]

And Wemoto do sexy gold stanchions for the 954 usd's, hmmmmm. £166 per leg though.

[nora2004]

And Wemoto do sexy gold stanchions for the 954 usd's, hmmmmm. £166 per leg though.

Ouch, thats quite an amount of money! lol

Although from what Ive been told the gold doesnt last too long, especially on a road bike that clocks up the mileage, eventually they end up looking a little tired, however, they do look well swish, although black nitride would be my preference!

[Kev L]

Philpot's charge £220ish to chrome the stripped out lowers of usd's. I will have a look around and see what I fancy before spending out.

[tony.mon]

http://www.reactivesuspension.com/services.php

DLC coatings available at about the same price as chroming.

[agentpineapple]

And Wemoto do sexy gold stanchions for the 954 usd's, hmmmmm. £166 per leg though.

tempting but i haven't got the spare cash at the mo, maybe next year.

[chric]

I'll ask my dad He's getting is triumph thunderbird stripped down caseings etc and chromed at a place in mexbourough rotherham.But got told by local motorbike shop there is a waiting list due to people getting cars done over winter for car show season

[thumperslaw]

I use them alot and not once have i had any props with them??!!

Don't sound to good what they did tho

[chric]

let you know some time soon neil as took my dads bike today to strip parts to be chromed up.So will look nice indeed when it's done