Show Us Your Flies

Bit of a strange topic, anyway, heres the front of my SV after roughly 120 miles. Great way to know what flies are out and what to choose when you are going fishing. Anyone got worse to show?

Pebbledashed I think is the word.

[MitchC]

Hey,

Oh I can definitely beat that. I just Photoshop the bugs out of my pictures, I'll make sure I leave them on for you.

Mitch

leave them on for a night and there a bugger to get off once they have set hard.










ooops " there i go cleaning again "

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

leave them on for a night and there a bugger to get off once they have set hard.


ooops " there i go cleaning again "

However, in your infinite wisdom - what is the best way of removing dried fly corpses with damaging your paintwork?

The method I've used in the past is a bit of damp kitchen towel left over the offending bits to soak em for an hour or so prior to washing.

ditto - same technique to clean the lid too!

[Luckypants]

Agreed, but how to get them off your leathers? soaking them off is not good for the leather, so what do peeps do to remove flies from leathers?

[Quiff Wichard]

cover a tea towel in red hot water from the kettle and drape it over the front of the bike..










wont get rid of the flies - but will cover up the nasty red- ! get a blue 'un



no - it works.. softens em up a treat

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

cover a tea towel in red hot water from the kettle and drape it over the front of the bike..

Sorry Quiff, Can't seem to get my water past that 100 degrees C point before it turns into a water type vapour.

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Agreed, but how to get them off your leathers? soaking them off is not good for the leather, so what do peeps do to remove flies from leathers?

To be honest, as long as you don't use anything abrasive or dry the leather infront of direct heat, dampening the surface won't do any harm if done with a little after care.

Don't use hot water with leather though - this causes the fibres to unmesh and sit flat... but that's all techy leather nerd stuff.

Tepid water, wet teatowel or paper towel and press over leather and leave for a couple of hours. Then clean the leather overall with either a branded product - or simple Saddle Soap is probably the cheapest. Then finish off with a leather feed.

You don't have to feed it every time - every 2 or 3 will do.
Leather is hungry and needs feeding to keep it in good nick - or it'll dry out. Thing is, it needs oil rather than water, which is why wet leather will dry out more brittle; the water drives out the natural oils and they need to be replaced. Wind has the same effect - just like drying out your skin.


Likewise using something abrasive to scrape the sticky beggars of will only damage the surface of the leather, allowing water easier access to the grain below... but I've embarassed myself enough now with geeky knowledge of the skin of dead animals.