S90: Aluminum Polishing Test

The bike will never look right until the paint is freshened up and the engine and chrome is polished.  I'd read up on aluminum polishing and it looked pretty straight-forward.  Decided to attack it as follows:

1. Clean with solvent and steel wool to remove any and all debris
2. Go at it with 400 grain sandpaper
3. Then 600 sandpaper
4. Then 1500 sandpaper
5. And finally apply a good metal polish

Worked like a charm!

The only metal polish I had was an ancient jar of BlueMagic polish but it still seemed to work pretty well.  I have a tube of Autosol coming by mail, though, so I'll have to compare that as I've heard it works wonders.

Before...

And after...