That's funny because I didn't even realize I was using a trick until you told me ;) Sometimes it's tiny things you pick up from other people that can be so useful.

Handlebars are small enough diameter that something like a buffing pad on a sander won't work, and using a Dremel with a buffing wheel would be an exercise in futility and frustration. I'd have resigned myself to doing it with a rag and finger working in tiny circles until my hands were cramping and I'd be wondering why I'd ever started. I did something similar on a Manitou 3 suspension fork about 20 years ago after stripping all the crappy graphics off the aluminum fork legs with Easy-Off oven cleaner. Polished the legs to a nice shine with DuPont No. 7 rubbing compound *without* your cloth strip trick and man was I tired of that process by the time I was done!

Thanks! Glad I could inspire someone

Recycling and or reusing bike frames / parts is a must

Correct! Amazing frame.

I cut it so that the angle stays the same as if the bike was standing on the ground. So if it's a horizontal top tube then it's square, yes. With the other one I just eyeballed the angle so it's about the same position when it's on the wall.

Just polishing paste and an old cloth rag ;)

Phil Vandelay danke. Sehr schönes Projekt!

3MDiamond 2.0 is a body polishing compound it also cuts and then has enough material to polish great idea

Just some all-purpose polishing paste, comes in a tube (like toothpaste) and you can get it in most hardware stores

Haha, thanks dude

polishing paste? you can make it out of a Polish person ha ha ha I can legally make this comment as I'm Polish :-D But seriously, most car accesories shops will have this.... but not made of a person.

If you mean the "tool", that's just an old rag I slide up and down the tube with both hands ;) I use some all-purpose polishing paste, it usually comes in a tube at most hardware stores.

Polishing paste!

Just regular metal polishing paste. You can also try toothpaste, I'm serious! If you want to remove rust, WD-40 or Coke (the soda) also works

A fonfon t'es savoyard

yes dans le cœur et dans le sang.

Chisco Garcia Gonzalez ...Woody Guthrie had that same slogan on his guitars,thinking he's giving Woody some respect!

.... or perhaps, he cut up a fascist with that bandsaw.

How do you know they were perfectly good? Ever considered the option that the frames were broken beforehand?

:((

LEON762 ORTIZ Creo que si usas piezas de bicis dañadas no hay problema

José Luis Orozco ti3nes razon:)

As far as I understand from Google translate you're mad that I destroyed the frames. Just wanted to mention that they were toast anyway, weren't anything special to begin with and old steel frames are a dime a dozen here in Europe. I picked one of them up from the side of the road where it had been abandoned, stripped and was rusting away. So yeah...

Phil Vandelay hello phil I wanted to tell you that old bicycles must be restored. and industrial frames like those of the 2000s have to be thrown away. however I can not convince you otherwise one day you will understand

There are websites that sell dumbbells and ect ... because you do not do that. I saw that you're good and you have ideas but you need to think goodbye thanks

Don’t listen to people who can only hear what they want to hear, keep creating. Great work!

Ciao Bob si può creare senza distruggere saluti