Polished Hubs

[crs2000]

Hi All,
I have seen lots of fs1e bike pictures of restorations and lots have polished wheel hubs was this how they were when the bike was new? or is this a concourse thing as surely Yamaha never went to these lengths and thought they were just painted silver. As I want my bike to look more relistic to how it looked from new, as over polishing parts that were not spoils it in my opinion. I do understand it's the bike owners preference and respect that and I do not want to upset anyone on here though.

so my question is were they painted or polished

[rustyrim]

Hello, I asked this question, a while back, on another forum.
A guru, on fizzies said this,
'Early fizzy hubs weren’t painted the later type FS1 ones where. If you want them exact they should be cast finish inside and polished outside'.

Hope this helps.

[jobby]

i dont like them polished i prefer them lightly blasted leaving a dull shine

[pertheswede]

In my humble opinion I believe the early fizzys had lightly polished hubs, sprocket carrier and brake shoe holder plates. I also think on the later models they were then painted silver, not sure which model they started painting them on though!? I think it was the non pedal ones (2G0 perhaps)

[flapinflares]

agree with the above, an ss for example had no paint on hubs but not polished to a chrome finish, they can look fake and over done, if you polish them up the once they will duul down to correct finish in time

[nat666]

I can remember my one owner purple pop fizz when I bought it was just lightly polished hubs and plates in its day

[pertheswede]

Just found a genuine YAMAHA FS1-E NOS rear hub in a box in my stores and it has been painted in silver (badly at that) It doesn't carry a part number on the box so no clues there I'm afraid

I will also check my one owner from new totally original BAJA Speedblock to see whether I can determine whether its hubs have been polished or painted?

[flapinflares]

Just found a genuine YAMAHA FS1-E NOS rear hub in a box in my stores and it has been painted in silver (badly at that) It doesn't carry a part number on the box so no clues there I'm afraid

I will also check my one owner from new totally original BAJA Speedblock to see whether I can determine whether its hubs have been polished or painted?

I recon the later ones did have paint on them