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Ok Kwak this a thread directly for you, for the last so many months ive used this site and you have a big rep for your sparkling bike, and after seeing it on friday i aspire BIG TIME for a bike that clean!!
so how do you do it, i want some sort of guide (with pictures) showing the secrets, we know your secret weapon is auto sol, but you are bike cleaning guru, pass on the knowledge !! ![]() also if any one has some decent Tips add them Also!! ![]() |
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Its just time thats all, if you're prepared to spend upwards of 3 - 4 hours a weekend scrubbing, polishing expelling serious amounts of elbow grease on your bike then it'll look kwak clean to.
Personally I'd rather be riding my bike, however I do like to keep my bike clean. It gets washed once a week, My GSXR's done nearly 10,000 miles now. Heres a pic I took of it this morning after a wash and spruce up ![]() I tend to rinse the worst off, spray with muc off, rinse that off, then wash with a decent car shampoo such as Auto Glym, then rinse again and leave to dry. Then go over all the bodywork plastics with Mr Sheene, clean the wheels frame etc with WD40. Every 3 months or so it gets a light polish with Auto Glymn again and I polish the exhaust pipe ( but not the can as its titanium ) with Autosol and thats about it. Takes an hour or so. If you look close some of the exhaust header bolts behind the fairing are a little rusty, but TBH how long do you spend looking at a bike, 2 - 3 seconds at a bike meet unless its something uber special and then you move on. Also keeping it that level of clean needs serious comitment to the cleaning cause.
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will add more to this when ive got more time but fizz hits the nail on the head really, its just hours of cleaning and polishing. check out cuz's exhaust pipes on the Put on your shades thread in pictures, he spends hours on the under neath of his sv, even the bits you cant see like exhaust header bolts he likes clean. on friday when i met lylej my bike got filthy but hours later it was back to its normal self, ive noticed if you keep ontop of it its easyer to clean when it does get dirty.
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nice brake discs fizz
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'kin great looking bike full stop. Your avatar doesn't do it justice fizzwheel, sort it out
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so mr Kwak i was wondering i got these light colored white stains on my frame i am not sure what caused it what would you use to take it off.
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white stains? try wd40 and autosol.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Autos...spagenameZWD1V
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...6352557&rd=1,1 Is that the right stuff. How far does it go would you get the tube of it or just go ahead and get the big can of it. |
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yea thats the stuff!
WOW a wopping BIG can ![]() ![]() |
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