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HARO SPORT QUESTION....

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deeman:
Does anyone happen to know if the 1985/6 Haro Sports which were white over chrome and blue over chrome were originally a chrome frameset which was powdered over or was it just the forks and the rear triangle which was dipped? thanks in advance  :daumenhoch:

Jaymz:
I have a 86 sport, non wrap round head tube gusset, the frame is all chrome. BUT, it left the factory in 87 as a powdered FST with non chrome forks. I would presume it would be easier to just chrome a whole frame than it would to just chrome the back, did they ever do a an all chrome frame sport from the factory in 85/86

deeman:

--- Quote from: Jaymz on January 20, 2016, 08:23 PM ---I have a 86 sport, non wrap round head tube gusset, the frame is all chrome. BUT, it left the factory in 87 as a powdered FST with non chrome forks. I would presume it would be easier to just chrome a whole frame than it would to just chrome the back, did they ever do a an all chrome frame sport from the factory in 85/86

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Yes, they did do a chrome one....which was what got me thinking. The paint seems to chip off those fairly easily too judging by the survivors I have seen, which would make sense. Thanks for that J  :daumenhoch:

Jaymz:
Here's mine, hard to tell from the pics but there's a scrape along the platform where the previous owner checked whether it was chrome or not

McQUEEN:
I'm not sure if it will be the same process, but the half chrome/half paint RL's in 84/85 were chrome dipped all over - but it was to do with the finishing of the dipped chrome that differed.

The full chrome finished ones were dipped and then polished all over, but the ones to be part paint/ part chrome were dipped but only polished to the rear triangle/ front forks.

I think it was a cost thing - dipping is cheap, but polishing is time / labour consuming.

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