Goin' for the gold (paint)

[orangelion03]

Want to paint a set of black S2R1000 calipers gold.  Any suggestions for paint??

[suzyj]

http://www.vhtpaint.com/caliperpaint.html

[orangelion03]

http://www.vhtpaint.com/caliperpaint.html

Shweet!  Thanks Suzy!

[BlackKat]

I would say avoid the VHT stuff like the plague!

I was trying to paint my goldlines black and after multiple attempts with VHT stuff, i gave up. it bubbled up, peeled...that stuff is rubbish! I follewd their instructions to a "T"...

I took it to a local body shop, the guy that does thee estimates looked at it and said..."VHT, huh?" before I could even explain. They charged me $50.00 (much of which was due to the stripping of the VHT crap) to clean, prep and repaint in high gloss urethane black. Well worth avoiding that headache!

Just my experience...

[He Man]

Im almost positive you either a) got a bad can or b) didnt clean them properly.

90% of a paintjob is in the prep work. theres no reason caliper paint, made for caliper shouldnt work at all.

duplicolor makes a brush on version that seems more durable. just my 2cents. u can get a better build up and get it into thecorners better.

[kopfjäger]

Leave them black. 

[vossy]

Leave them black. 

+1 to that.

[Mojo S2R]

+2

[corey]

i had good results with VHT as well.
it was on car calipers, but it worked nicely.

[speedknot]

I've had nothing but good luck with VHT.  I painted many of the parts on my cafe bikes with VHT and they came out beautiful.  Like another poster said, its 90% prep.  Sometimes you can get Duplicolor a bit cheaper.  Not sure if its the same paint but Duplicolor bought VHT.