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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!
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.
very rarely wash it, just keep it clean with wd40 (that works wonders on paintwork too by the way)
wash the bike a minimum of once a week, but usually end up washing it after every 'decent' blast out
never polish it though
clean yer bike.................why would you want to do that? Given its italian it would only go rusty.
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
I'm better at cleaning it than I am at riding it :)
Can't be bothered to go and ride it :(
[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 :([/quote]
Whaaat!?! Go and wash your mouth out Girl!!
What sort of biker are you? :o
BB
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
British weather, I spend a lot of time cleaning!! (the bike, not the house!)