How clean is yours...?

[Horse]

Hey Everyone,

Not sure if I’m in the right place....but
Cleaning your bike is important for loads o' reasons.
It’s that special time that you spend with your bike. Rubbing her..
It’s a great way to spot problems developing early.
Or you just want to get away from the missus and kids for a half hour!

After looking at a lot of the bike photos here, I have one question.....
How the f*ck do you get your bikes so bloody clean!???

Places like exhaust pipes, spoke wheels, engine fins,
I know it takes time and elbow grease, but you guys must have tricks, tips, and secret products?????

Any time savers would be greeat
Thanks..

 

[boxer]

Hydraulic bike table.

 

[MikeP]

Tame an eight-year old (they have conveniently small hands and will work for a sherbet fountain).

 

[Horse]

I like the firs one.... If i put it on the table, missus might clean it.

But ive never seen a tame 8 year old

 

[Canuck]

Good question. I can keep the wheels clean with a wheel brush and a sponge but the fins... not so sure how to clean them. The tooth brush doesn't fit in there. I do tend to keep the bike dirty but twice a year I'd like to give it a good clean and go over all the bolts... found my centre stand loose a few weeks ago during the winter clean. I have noticed that if you soak it with acf 50 all the tar bits soften up and you can wipe them off... but still no wiser about cleaning the fins!

 

[MikeP]

You may get some serious answers but everyone has different methods and uses different products. There's no magic solution (or gloop) that will avoid elbow-grease.

Then you will get the "I don't clean mine, it's just a bike, don't wash it ride it, the only wash mine gets is when it rains" brigade.

Good luck.

 

[Vern]

Feckin great steam cleaner

 

[Mr K]

OCD

 

[Horse]

Some say use petrol, ( to remove tar), but its expencive and the smell makes me laugh out loud.
Theres a business for someone, GS vallet service.

Truth is I just bought a 1150 ADV SE of a tosser.
And he kept it spotless. So Id just like to keep her that way.

When you ride them, you want them filthy, and when you introduce them to your friends you want them clean....

 

[chad]

OCD

thats me that is

 

[pedro]

Well,

Cover bike with Gericke Red Gel Cleaner and go and have a coffee for half an hour, hose off all the gel cleaner. Allow Bike to dry and cover with ACF50. Repeat every three months.

I also hose it down every day to take the salt off. Seems to work alright.

 

[Horse]

Thanks all....
I luv my GS

 

[Mr K]

thats me that is

Sk 12 in't been out since Oct 18 when she clocked 50k... she's Acf50'd in all her nooks and crannies and hooked to the machine...

 

[chad]

Sk 12 in't been out since Oct 18 when she clocked 50k... she's Acf50'd in all her nooks and crannies and hooked to the machine...

300 freezin salty mails on sat part of which was a quick snow storm that froze the road and sent the cagers into a frenzy feckin carnage

got home got the hose out washed all the salt off then went into muckoff,shampoo,compressed air blowdown,then in the garage for the warm air blower to fully dry her off then went in and thawed myself out

she gets used hard with extra pampering

 

[Glenboy]

Cover bike with Gericke Red Gel Cleaner and go and have a coffee for half an hour, hose off all the gel cleaner.

I do the same (once in a while) using any cleaning gel, Gunk is good, and I work it into the awkward bits with an old paintbrush. Mind you, 90% of the time the bike's filthy.

Congrats on the SE by the way (best bike they ever made)

 

[(RIP) Tibs]

OK, what method do you guys use for covering the bike in ACF50 but not getting it all over the brakes?
I've tried various things but some still seems to end up on the discs, and that's really not a good thing....
Tibs

 

[clivewhilde]

SDoc100 is superb, get it at Hein Gericke or online.
Someone at work put me on to these guys http://www.allyearbiker.co.uk/Bike_Protection/index.html

 

[Big Lee]

Getting tar off? use WD40 then spray muc off on, agitate and hose off

 

[Horse]

is it possible to get the exhaust to shine like new again....?

 

[Summer]

is it possible to get the exhaust to shine like new again....?

I bloody hope so after seein the state of mine today after my ride down to Plymouth, roads were minging