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11-07-06, 04:02 PM
How often do you wash & polish your bike?
What do you use to wash it with?
What polish do you use?
I've just spent the last 2 hours washing and then polishing my chrome etc. My hands are now covered in autosol, but it was well worth it, considering its a 8 year old bike the chrome has come up really well!
I polished every bit of chrome I could see 8-) I now have a sparkly bike!
11-07-06, 04:23 PM
The Deauville gets done about once a month, but the Hornet gets done very weekend. Usually give it a wash with water and washing up liquid, then leave it dry, polish the paintwork (with Mr. Sheen if I'm giving it a deep clean - it takes a lot of buffing to get the shine but it's worth it - otherwise with a colour matched polish from Halfords). Once that's done, I give the black bits a going over with a "Back 2 Black" car bumper polish to make them look like new, then do the chromed bits (not that there's many of them) with a standard polish, or Autsol if it's raining and I'm not itching to get out.
The Deauville gets a bucket of water thrown over it and that's about it, unless it's looking in a very sorry state.
11-07-06, 04:33 PM
very rarely wash it, just keep it clean with wd40 (that works wonders on paintwork too by the way)
11-07-06, 04:36 PM
wash the bike a minimum of once a week, but usually end up washing it after every 'decent' blast out
never polish it though
11-07-06, 04:43 PM
clean yer bike.................why would you want to do that? Given its italian it would only go rusty.
11-07-06, 05:10 PM
Bikes are for riding not cleaning!
It only breaks your heart if you have it all sparkly & go out on sh*t roads and get it dirty!
BB
11-07-06, 05:16 PM
I'm better at cleaning it than I am at riding it
Can't be bothered to go and ride it
11-07-06, 06:30 PM
[quote author=Icey link=1152630125/0#6 date=1152634597]I'm better at cleaning it than I am at riding it
Can't be bothered to go and ride it
Whaaat!?! Go and wash your mouth out Girl!!
What sort of biker are you?
BB
11-07-06, 06:39 PM
I wash it, when it's dirty or when I am going somewhere special. for paint I use autogly car polish and for chrome WD40, or solvo autosol thats a metal polish good for ally too.....Rod
11-07-06, 06:41 PM
British weather, I spend a lot of time cleaning!! (the bike, not the house!)
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