looking good, I also did this....

I went with Black to Gunmetal now im trying out Bronze.

Heres what they look like...


My next idea is to do a 2 tone color. Have the top spoke bronze and the lower spoke black....

cant wait...

 

wow, you really didn't need to do all of that work to repaint them. All you really needed to do was hit them with scotchbrite(a hard sanding pad)to knock off the shine and then paint them black, no primer needed.

Here's a pic of my AP2 V1 repaints:

 

I did mine this winter using Duplicolor pearl graphite. Concur with what HonCBRf2 said too.... no need to do all that work. Check the Duplicolor web site...they even say the same thing





--Bob