Dirtiest bike

So who's got a real minger then?



Not the best pic I know, but my camera phone is cack.

Not me...

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I got to be honest I hate seeing really dirty vehicles and don’t see the point in it

It only takes 30 - 40 minutes to get a real good clean finish if you keep on top of it. When it gets like that it’s a real nightmare.

I used to have a friend who thought he was impressing people by never washing his car and having the dirtiest car around, he found it entertaining and got a kick from it looking a state for some reason .........Then he tried to wash it and the dirt had eaten into his paint and other mechanical parts and generally made a real mess, the car needed various parts replacing and the paint and bodywork was engrained beyond repair and corroded in various places where it wouldn’t normally be, making the car worthless.

Not saying you have been like that at all, because my bike has looked like yours after riding 300 miles in the rain its certainly not a personal jibe, but it is a good reason not to let it get to bad in my eyes.

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Give me a couple of weeks when the bad weather comes then I'll post some pics

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

I used to have a friend who thought he was impressing people by never washing his car and having the dirtiest car around, he found it entertaining and got a kick from it looking a state for some reason .........Then he tried to wash it and the dirt had eaten into his paint and other mechanical parts and generally made a real mess, the car needed various parts replacing and the paint and bodywork was engrained beyond repair and corroded in various places where it wouldn’t normally be, making the car worthless.

Sounds like the moral of the story is don't clean a really dirty car!

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

I got to be honest I hate seeing really dirty vehicles and don’t see the point in it

It only takes 30 - 40 minutes to get a real good clean finish if you keep on top of it. When it gets like that it’s a real nightmare.

I don't see the point in people letting it get absolutely minging, but at the same time, obsessively cleaning never made any sense to me either. If you ride every day, all year round, it's completely impractical to clean the bike after every ride (and if you did, it'd negate the time saving of going by bike in the first place). I give mine a good thorough clean a couple of times a year (IE using autosol) and a couple more times a year I'll give it a quicker clean/wax. It looks alright most of the time and occassionally looks very clean or very dirty.

It's soul destroying to spend forever cleaning and polishing, only to have it looking like it rubbish again after a 300 mile ride in the rain.

Originally Posted by Ceri JC

It's soul destroying to spend forever cleaning and polishing, only to have it looking like it rubbish again after a 300 mile ride in the rain.

Mine's a right minger.

I just don't see the point of keeping it squeaky clean.

So if asked Melody, you'd have to say you are a dirty gal?

Says it all really