I did that and you're right, they look like new when scrubbed too but basically I'm lazy and even w/o scrubbing they look great.
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I felt the same until I used that eagle 1 stuff that you have to sit and polish by hand for almost and hour on each wheel and dosent look a quarter as good as the hot rims
Mine ended up so clean and rust free I painted them. 
did you do gloss black??
Did not surface prep them. Did it this past spring, so too early to tell. The local paint store carrying the product thought it would hold up very well. We'll see.
NAPA Self-etching primer and gloss back. Held up very well but pulled them when I went to 35's.
How do you think they would look on a blue cruiser??
I can't say anything other than black looks good on red cruisers. I think there are plenty of pics of blue ones with black wheels.
well after looking at the pics I cant say how mine would look
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i saw this on an episode of mythbusters a while back, and i figured it'd be a good time to try, but tin or aluminum foil and coca cola works perfect. i wished i'd done a before and after like bluegrass did, it works amazing, the aluminum is soft enough to not scratch the chrome, and the acid eats off any and al dirt deposits and brake dust. i took off about a year of crap off them, and looked brand new
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One of the reasons that my GF has been using BKF for years is that it is not abrasive. At least not at any level obvious to her, and she's pretty sharp about mechanical things in general. She'd have noticed.
Folks, another super easy way I discovered was using a Brillo pad with Oxy Clean (std Brillo pad will prolly work just as well)
