(08-04-16, 12:48 AM)Razgruff link Wrote: I wash my bike about once or twice a year. sometimes bits get accidentally cleaned when being replaced or checked :\
I live on a farm and have about a mile of dirt track before I get to Tarmac. so washing it is pretty much a waste of time.
I did pressure wash it off the other day, so there is now a space between the exhaust manifolds and the engine block again. forgot the oil filter was down there :eek , it's been so long since I've seen it :lol
I take a pride it the filth on my bike purely to wind up the people who spend more on trick bits and polish than they do on what they put in the petrol in the tank :evil
I don't s'pose it'd really bother you anyway but when i resprayed my engine a few years back i jetwashed it first and it literally blew the engine paint off, so i would say to others to be careful about ever using one.
Plus water tends to get in places that you don't want, i remember my airhorn sounding like nails down a chalkboard for 3 days until it dried out. :lol
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08-04-16, 06:49 PM (This post was last modified: 08-04-16, 06:50 PM by the cueball.)
depends on the bike..... you could eat your dinner off my ninja, I keep it very clean, everything is spotless and waxed etc... and I only ride that during the summer.
the Fazer is my 'council bike' I ride it all year, in all weathers, and it gets abused - that's what it's there for.
I clean and ACF it once a year, the rest of the time it's minging.... I do however make sure it's tip top on the maintenance side.
(08-04-16, 06:49 PM)the cueball link Wrote: I clean and ACF it once a year, the rest of the time it's minging.... I do however make sure it's tip top on the maintenance side.
Good use of the word 'minging' cueball, :thumbup landed up with many a 'minger' back in the day
Treat everything in life the way a dog would- if you can't eat it or foc it, forget it.
I ride as much as I can regardless of weather and I am not worried about the layers of grime.
It gets power washed when it is too filthy and then a spray of FS365 to keep the rust mite at bay.
I suppose if I had to commute on it in all weathers then I wouldn't be so bothered as I would be fighting a loosing battle but I only ride in the dry and its clean and so I like to keep it like that - it can get quite dusty sometimes just look at this filth
I don't do rain or threat there of. dry rider only with no shame.
(08-04-16, 06:14 AM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=Razgruff link=topic=19775.msg228693#msg228693 date=1460072880]
I wash my bike about once or twice a year. sometimes bits get accidentally cleaned when being replaced or checked :\
I live on a farm and have about a mile of dirt track before I get to Tarmac. so washing it is pretty much a waste of time.
I did pressure wash it off the other day, so there is now a space between the exhaust manifolds and the engine block again. forgot the oil filter was down there :eek , it's been so long since I've seen it :lol
I take a pride it the filth on my bike purely to wind up the people who spend more on trick bits and polish than they do on what they put in the petrol in the tank :evil
I don't s'pose it'd really bother you anyway but when i resprayed my engine a few years back i jetwashed it first and it literally blew the engine paint off, so i would say to others to be careful about ever using one.
Plus water tends to get in places that you don't want, i remember my airhorn sounding like nails down a chalkboard for 3 days until it dried out. :lol
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One trip up the drive to the farm I live on and it wouldn't be so clean. :lol
Even riding the roads around here it wouldn't be.
Unless I van the bike for 5 miles until I get to roads with out field gates where tractors are forever bring the field to the road.
Muck is just how it is around here, trying to fight it is pointless :\
Sounds a bit like where I live, :b the only difference, I don't live on a farm and one of the three roads I can use is reasonable clean most of the time.
And you think, I can't ride it now or it'll get dirty again, and all that work will have been for nothing! :eek :wall [/color]
That's uncanny Hedge how the fuck did you see inside my head and read my thought and reasoning pattern. I agree wholeheartedly with your quote/statement above.
Fine spray hose the the bike down leave it while slurping a cup of tea, it softens the dirt, shampoo bike with Auto Glym shampoo and nice warm water, hose spray rinse, dry off completely with a number of micropor towels. Then polish the paintwork (that's SILVER paintwork the fastest colour) with the only polish I would allow near my beloved, yes of course Auto Glym and buff to a high gloss. Auto Glym plastic and bumper gell on side panels, mirror backs, fairing infill panels and around instrument panel. Looking good. Now where did I put that tube of Autosol lets get them rear alloy peg hangers polished and that stainless Steel work polished, ahhh! that's better, Right now for the wheels WD sprayed onto a rag and wheels cleaned (gets the chain lube off the rear wheel) dry off and on with the Auto Glym dark paintwork polish quick buff up and the jobs-a-gudun. Plastic polish on headlight lenses and screen, remove smears from mirrors and I do believe I have done. Start to finish 1.5 hours and loved every minute of it. Better get the bike put away as I have heard it might rain the day after tomorrow.
Lol what a sad twat. But it gives me soooooo much joy, I love seeing my beloved looking her best.
Well it's either that or masterbation and the bike takes about 90 times as long.
(12-04-16, 09:36 AM)tommyardin link Wrote: [color=rgb(24, 36, 48)]
[/color]Now where did I put that tube of Autosol lets get them rear alloy peg hangers polished
I'm puzzling over something to do with this at the moment. All my previous Fazers, I've polished the rear peg hangers with Autosol, and they seemed to dull down very quickly again. But the current bike, I've not touched with the stuff, and the peg hangers have remained shiny and clean with just hosing off and a quick wipe with a rag. So I'm wondering if the peg hangers are lacquered in their original form, and over-zealous polishing takes that lacquer off, and maybe I just now happen to have a bike where the previous owner hasn't touched the hangers with anything more than water or a mild detergent, leaving the finish intact.
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