I've never had any luck with clear coat in a rattle can....so that was out, but I did try it......
Rusty-How do you maintain the nice shiny finish? Doesn't bare aluminum tend to oxidize fairly quickly?
Basically by repolishing it every so often, and keeping it waxed in between...
In all honesty, unless you enjoy this stuff a whole lot, polished aluminum is a maintenance nightmare.....
I ride my bike probabaly 7500 a year and often in the rain and so wash it, or wipe it down and detail it, just about every weekend.
Once aluminum is polished right the first time, repolishing it with Mothers or similiar isn't really that big a deal, about like using the old turtle "hard" waxes back in the old days....
The real key is if you get it wet you need to wipe it down as soon as you get it home and not let it sit, that's the #1 worst thing you can do for aluminum.
I use a product generally called "Honda Polish" although the one i use is a generic ( I think the brand is by "bike stuff") duplicate of the Honda product. It smells like a cross between wax and wd-40 when sprayed in the lid.
It's a fantastic product, you can basically give a fairly dirty bike a good bath without using any water, although more often it's used as an "in between" or daily wipe down thing.....
3-4 minutes every day when you get home wiping down with Honda Polish and you can go months without washing a bike, unless you get it so filthy that it's gonna scratch if a water hose isn't used to get the heavy dirt off.....
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