My whitewalls are too white.

[bikebuilder]

I am making my bike look older than it is. I put a brand new set of whitewall tires on it. Now it looks like a lowrider. I want to "YELLOW" my whitewalls to give them an older look. Any suggestions?

Would something like shoe polish work?

 

[CCR]

leave them in the sun, dont forget to flip sides :mrgreen:

thats the only way i know other than putting greasy fingerprints all over them.

 

[deorman]

leave them in the sun, dont forget to flip sides :mrgreen:

thats the only way i know other than putting greasy fingerprints all over them.

Don't forget to store them at night in a dirty bucket of brakish rain water! :wink:

 

[bikebuilder]

Thanks.......I'll try some shoe polish. I just have to find some.

 

[sensor]

next time you change your oil rub some of the old on the side walls............itll yellow them quick
but if you want them truly yellow what ccr said is the norm

 

[icyuod2]

i musta missed something. your bike looks like a cheap lowrider cause the tires are too white?
nothing wrong with nice purdy white walls on a rat rod. nothing at all. just check out all the fantastic bikes in the gallery that sport new shoe's.

 

[bikebuilder]

i musta missed something. your bike looks like a cheap lowrider cause the tires are too white?

That and the black paint was too shiny. I fixed that with some wet sanding. Now the paint is just right. I think it looks good. It's just not the look I'm going for.

 

[elvis51]

post some pics of that badboy so we can see what your workin with!!!

Easy E

 

[SkidMark]

This may sound counter-intuitive but use Bleche-White (whitewall tire cleaner) on them. It dries them out, making them them more succeptable to yellowing.

 

[bikebuilder]

This is kindof what I want my tires to look like.

I just want to stain them somehow, rather than actually rot them.

 

[Tommy Atoms]

I once used clay and water. Rub it on by hand, let it dry and rinse. Dont rub it off as hard as you applied it or it may rinse all off. Also keep in mind if you live in red clay country you will have a redish tint left on your tires. We have a kinda grayish brown in MI.

 

[tnt1]

Lay them in the sun for a couple of days. They will yellow that way.

 

[stretch]

i bought some for my favorite 20"er, and the rear yellowed more. im pretty sure it was all the grase from the chain trying to get the wheel in there. so get a really dirty/greasey chain, run it thru your hands, and rub it alll over your nice whitewalls. then rub off the excess and they should be plenty "yellowed."

 

[bikebuilder]

Well the shoe polish and paint thinner did the trick. I felt a sigh of relief when they weren't so white. Here are some before and after shots.

 

[SkidMark]

Cuz paint thinner wouldn't dry out the sidewalls :roll:

 

[bikebuilder]

Cuz paint thinner wouldn't dry out the sidewalls :roll:

No... I just didn't want brownwalls.

 

[SkidMark]

Cuz paint thinner wouldn't dry out the sidewalls :roll:

No... I just didn't want brownwalls.

Dude, I recommended

which is specifically for cleaning whitewall tires. Unfortunately this product tends to weather whitewalls by drying them out. The look you are going for could be described as faux-tina and this is the real way that the look you want was achieved in the first place. I'm certainly not bagging on faux-tina, if I was I'd be bagging on myself.