Seriously though, if you saw a bike parked up with a full bank of carbs all looking like that, what would you think? Way OTT or wow or something else, I'm curious to know. I've seen carbs chromed before BTBH they don't normally last, they flake off within a short period and look awful, mainly because Japanese alloy is so poor, Mazac I believe it's called. It's why your clutch cover chrome flakes off so easily. I'm in the process of restoring my 500 again, the last time it was done back in the late 70s early 80s the bike had a huge amount of chrome on it, however it didn't last the first winter so all told it turned out to be a waste of time and money. This time I want the bike to look the part but without the problems of the first restoration, so I'm testing having parts done in ceramic chrome instead of chrome, I'm doing more polishing instead of chroming. However I do like chrome, it's my age, so if I can get a part to look like it's been chromed when it's not that's a way forward for me. The carb actually isn't really polished at all, it's just sanded to a very high level but the tools used do contain polishing compound at the same time so maybe it's partly polished?
I like to try and restore parts that most would throw away, it's just a quirk of mine, the worse it is the more of a challenge so to speak, covers that have been thrown down the road are a good test.
Like this one.
Which after some hours spent on it ended up like this. It's the one on the left, the other was another cover I rescued. I gave the one on the right away to a mate, cost me almost nothing it was so bad.
