Hi all,

Now I’m not the best in the world for cleaning my vehicles I work fairly long hours during the week and come the weekend I really don’t feel like spending a couple of hours scraping my knuckles on the hard to reach places of my bike, I don’t mind the car, it takes a lot less time and once done actually looks like it’s been cleaned. What I was looking for is whether there was a cleaning agent that I could spray on the bike and it would break down the dirt and grime and with minimal effort I could then wash the bike. The reason I ask I took my car to one of these had wash places on the London Road and they did a remarkably good job, even the wheels where pretty clean (considering when I do it I need a toothbrush to get between the spokes) and all they really did, was spray something on it, then spray a soapy solution on it, give it a quick blast with a sponge and rinse. I was very impressed with the result. As I commute daily on the bike and haven’t cleaned it in about 8 weeks in is quite grubby now and is going to need a real good scrub, I also haven’t been able to get the alloy parts like the wheels, frame or engine parts very clean at all, they seem to be discoloured, I did try wire wool on a very small section which did bring it up nicely, but I was worried whether this would damage the metal? It also will take a very long time, so any advice on miracle cleaning solutions greatly welcomed.

Thanks

N.

What ever you do don't use a high presure washer on it, it will screw the electrics. Mega bucks to repair.

I put mine in a hand car wash thing, you get the water and stuff through brushes that you use yourself not one of those with the big rotating brushes ;)

mind I have a lot of fairings to protect the electrics

and just a point why not stick to the normal size fonts and colour the one you have picked for that post looks awful

I put mine in a hand car wash thing, you get the water and stuff through brushes that you use yourself not one of those with the big rotating brushes ;)

mind I have a lot of fairings to protect the electricsJust becareful with this method fried the electrics on my gsx.:(

and just a point why not stick to the normal size fonts and colour the one you have picked for that post looks awful

I didn't think it looked too bad myself, and a smidgen of individualism is not all that bad. Plus will the colour and size of the text I use have an impact on the replies I receive or lack of them? Mmm, could be the makings of a new thread here :wink:

sometimes you pick can pick a font that looks ok on your machine but is unreadable on someone elses, a forum I use I used to post using "Lucida Handwriting" font as it looked ok on my machine, I didn't realise that as my XP machine didn't have the font installed it was defaulting to "comic sans serif" and those with win2k who did have the font were having a hell of a job reading my posts

so you need to be careful with font selections

personally I reckon your post looks ok

aaaaaaaaaaaand swiftly back to topic :D

sometimes you pick can pick a font that looks ok on your machine but is unreadable on someone elses, a forum I use I used to post using "Lucida Handwriting" font as it looked ok on my machine, I didn't realise that as my XP machine didn't have the font installed it was defaulting to "comic sans serif" and those with win2k who did have the font were having a hell of a job reading my posts

so you need to be careful with font selections

personally I reckon your post looks ok

aaaaaaaaaaaand swiftly back to topic :D

I haven't actually changed the font, so if it is different it's not by me; I just changed the colour to blue and made it slightly bigger. Maybe if I could get a suggestion on a cleaning aid for my bike it may work on the font too?

am selling some bike cleaning stuff 3/4 of a 5litre bottle of muc off (very good) for £5 with a brush and empty squirty bottle. :P

am selling some bike cleaning stuff 3/4 of a 5litre bottle of muc off (very good) for £5 with a brush and empty squirty bottle. :P

Hi,

Where are you based? Is it any good? I may be interested in taking it off your hands?

Thanks

Nick

near the centre but can meet you. Yeh its great stuff retails at £20 for 5litres as i dont have a bike (and never wash the car!) i dont have any use for it

I come down the A61 from Hillsborough then head towards Chesterfield on it, so if anywhere along there is easy for you let me know.

Tried to pm you but was told you in box is full.

Thanks

N.

Muc Off is good stuff, I used to use it on my MTB when I offroaded a lot. They sell it in Halfords when youve run out of the stuff from FG. Just spray it on, leave it for 5 minutes, then rinse it off.

Just spray it on, leave it for 5 minutes, then rinse it off.

Cool, thats the kind of washing | like.

am selling some bike cleaning stuff 3/4 of a 5litre bottle of muc off (very good) for £5 with a brush and empty squirty bottle. :P

Thanks f_g, will give it a go at the weekend.

N.