Cleaning downpipes?

[Drew Carey]

I t was her old bike I learnt the trick on!!!!

Stotchbrite or wire wool as dizzy says. I prefer stotchbrite, us it at work lots so free too. Light brown course and green med/fine.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

+1

No point, just ride it.

+2

[steveg]

Originally Posted by danf1234

+2

Knock it on the head , just ride it

I was in the same situation as you with my downpipes. After seeing what TamSV managed to do with his I used his method.

Wet and dry paper (as fine as you can get away with), keep going with it untill you're on the finest grade, then Autosol and lots of elbow grease. Mine go a bit discoloured after a ride but clean up dead easy with more Autosol and limited elbow grease!

Clean em!

[DarrenSV650S]

Waste of time polishing it. I just let it get bad then spray some S Doc 100 on it and that takes away most of the crap

Nothing wrong with taking pride in your bike and keeping it looking shiny!

Cue yorkie chris weekly "toby is a puff and his bike is too clean" p!ss take

Originally Posted by DarrenSV650S

Waste of time polishing it. I just let it get bad then spray some S Doc 100 on it and that takes away most of the crap

+1

[CodeJACK]

I used Hammerite Rust removal stuff and it worked great and completly removing all rust without any real scrubbing at all.

I plan to do a proper job of it soon by removing the complete exhaust. Then cover the whole lot in this green goo and wait.
Then rub all crap off with wire brush and finish with Autosol.

This lasted for me for 3-5 months. Its only since the rain started again that the rust makes a rapid appearance.

If you want to keep it looking well then a weekly clean is probably the only way. Ill leave that sort of scrubbing to posers and Harley riders.

Wow, thanks for all the replies. I've never had much luck with the search function, so appreciate it.

Never heard of Bar Keepers.I take it, it's some sort of metal polish? Got some wet & dry so looks like I have a job for the weekend.

I've only had it a couple of weeks, so really want to get stuck in about it. Overall it's very clean but downpipes, lower yoke, and bits of the forks are all a bit mingy. The allen bolt is all chewed so I can't get the front fender off so thought I'd move onto something else that I can do. lol Also gonna polish up the heal plates cos they are all scuffed.

Maybe it's sad but I like just pottering about with the bike, taking things off, cleaning them and putting them back on. lol