OK, just polished them. I didn't use steel wool, I never do arround my car or bike. Took one hour of wet sanding, first with 800 paper and then 1200. I noticed that pipes have some kind of coating that was in bad shape in some places, falling off, and with white dots under it. Sanding over it removed completely all of the dots and cracks and left nice clean metal. Then, on areas that were OK, sand paper simply couldn't brake through the coating. Maybe if I had the cables off the bike completely and brought back to my house, then I'd go with various grades of sand paper until only clean metal was exposed.
But anyway, after one hour of sanding I took half an hour of polishing the metal and now it looks just like it came back from chrome plating.
I'll see in coming days what's going to happen in areas where I removed the coating and polished bare metal.
The bracket, I removed completely. It's simple steel and completely rusted. That's the bit I'm going to take care of right now on my balcony.
Then, there is little doubt I have:
I tried to remove the cables from the throttle assembly and I simply couldn't manage. I opened assembly and tried at least return cable as twisting the throttle would remove tension from it, but it was still too tight to do anything. Do I have to disconnect cables on throttle body first? If not, what was I doing wrong? Arrgghhh, being car mechanic doesn't always help on motorcycle...
Willbo, how exactly you removed them on yours? I've seen the photo you posted on other thread.
Now, off to take care of little bracket...