31-01-13, 08:57 PM
Yes heavy salting of the roads recently makes a strong solution of brine and eats any bikes finish 
l use mine all year round to get into work and find the best thing you could do especially now as your down to the bare alloy is to spray the area with WD40 (or similar) a few times and let the stuff soak in. Protects mine, which l spray every week and only wash every few months while the roads are being gritted. Its kind of overdue a clean :\ but after 69000 miles most commuting it comes up very similar to this pic taken early last year, it ll take a lot of elbow grease but l ll get there !
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l use mine all year round to get into work and find the best thing you could do especially now as your down to the bare alloy is to spray the area with WD40 (or similar) a few times and let the stuff soak in. Protects mine, which l spray every week and only wash every few months while the roads are being gritted. Its kind of overdue a clean :\ but after 69000 miles most commuting it comes up very similar to this pic taken early last year, it ll take a lot of elbow grease but l ll get there !
Still got the Hornet ;-)