Black is beautiful...

[Skeezix]

Hated the shiny pieces, seemed out of place.
Trip to the powder coaters took care of that.
Before-


After-:mrgreen:


Best $25 I've spent in a while.

[Astro4x4]

Looks good, I'm not a fan of those pieces being chromed either.

[Skeezix]

It is one thing that just about everyone comments about.
"Nice bike. Why are those things so shiny?"
Never liked them, now they are gone.

[Sasquatch]

Hmm, I would have chosen a different color. I have the same chrome heal guards, and I am thinking of doing them either in Lollypop blue (matches the Blue on the 06 Kat), or possibly black chrome. I also am not a big fan of regular chrome..I don't hate it, but Im not one to have a ton of it on my bike either.

[Skeezix]

A different color would obviously cost more.
I had the option to go with a "shinier" black.
Decided not to as I would have been replacing
one type of shiny for a different one.
Thought about blue, but if it was only just a
little bit off shade it would have looked bad.
Different strokes and all that rot.

[teddy]

I like what you did there. They do tend to stand out like a sore thumb on the 600's. I have seen a few others do that with the heel guards and IMO, it cleans up the lower section of the bike nicely, gives the fairings a cleaner break from the frame/swingarm section and enhances the 'sweep' they have across the bottom towards the tail section.

[Skeezix]

I almost wonder what it would look like if I had done them white.
The fairing sections on the lower half of the bike are white, sooooo...
Naahhh... that would make too much white down there.
Black it is.