cleaning my bike

[Kinvig]

Well, was off work sick today so I spent some if it cleaning my bike. Hooray!

Got some toothbrushes for 15p at Sainsbury's & attacked the bike with degreaser.

Is there anything I can do to the exhaust pipes where they come out of the engine? They look all brown & rusty - they're the only thing letting my bike down.

scrubbed the chain nice & clean too - took ages to get all that gunk off ;o)

[thor]

http://www.commaoil.com/Product%20Pages/Valeting/awc.htm

don't get it on anything else...

[lukemillar]

Autosol with this :toss: action should sort it out!

[Viney]

1500 grit wet and dry then autosol.

[Quiff Wichard]

what viney said--

comes up a treat..

autosols about a fiver a tube.

[Kate]

http://www.commaoil.com/Product%20Pages/Valeting/awc.htm

don't get it on anything else...
Excellent stuff and no effort required, can definitely recommend.

[kwak zzr]

what viney said--

comes up a treat..

autosols about a fiver a tube.

fiver a tube! where you get it from? i usually pay £3 - £3.50 max
ive got my front pipe as new now just with autosol and a rag and about 2hours of hard work. :roll:

[Quiff Wichard]

I pay £3.50

which where I am from is about a fiver!

[Ed]

full fairings are wonderful things...

[Yellow650]

I wouldn't recommend using any sandpaper or emory cloth. I would just get some aluminum polish (I use "Metall") and go to town w/ it. It will never look new, just so you know.

[kwak zzr]

autosol is the stuff-
http://upload4.postimage.org/519597/DSCF0002.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/519597/photo_hosting.html)

[Quiff Wichard]

kwak -

that just isnt right.!!

you have too much time.!

[kwak zzr]

polished my heel plates today back to the alloy :roll: arm's are recked.

[lukemillar]

you have too much time.!

Guess he has been practising his :toss: action a lot!

[kwak zzr]

hey i'm a top :toss: <polisher, heel plates are more of a :smt039 tho :wink:

[muddycoffee]

I've polished my pipe in the past but never got rid of the overall brownness of it. That pipe looks like a new one which has never been run.

[medwaysv]

kwak..ive spent hours on mine with with various grades of wet and dry, a dremmel and a tube of solvols finest but i aint ever got mine looking as good as that.
i actually found it to be a doddle doin my heel plates too
that looks so shiny i need to put my shades on 8)

[rezaf]

i agree with medwaysv, that is high quality polishing youve done. ive got a dremmel and the time ive spent polishing using autosol on certain metals but not on chrome. its so annoying when youve done all that and then you have to take your bike out in the **** weather and it goes bad. there must be a decent type of laquer to cover it all.

[kwak zzr]

arr :? the bike has cover'd 5000miles but they have all been dry miles, it did get to a dis colour'd state cuz i never really bother'd with it much but plenty of hard work got it back to the crome look.

[Lou M]

And no-one has asked the obvious!

You were off SICK and CLEANED your bike?? Shouldn't you have been in bed all day ! :lol: :lol: :lol:


Nutty x

[kwak zzr]

no i wasn't sick :( its just that when the kids are playing up my sanctuary is in the garage, I've got a tv in there now! :D

hows the CG125 nuttyt@rt?

[Stu]

No Kinvig was sick - hope he's OK hasn't been back to this thread

[kwak zzr]

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