fq-craigus Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Its this time of year where its impossible to keep your bike clean. Some will cringe at the mess of some bikes but lets see what a day or two after a clean the roads have done to your bikes heres mine, cleaned friday night not the best pics but you get the point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Holy shit! Have you been green laning?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fq-craigus Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Holy shit! Have you been green laning?! Might have well have been, doing a baron von grumble without the dropping it part lol. Na this is the state of our roads round here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Sunday - cleaned the bike looking all pristine... came back looking like this;Sigh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fq-craigus Posted November 12, 2014 Author Share Posted November 12, 2014 Thats what i like to see nice and used, i can only bring myself to do it once a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I don't mind - it's an easy clean, just take it to the local Texaco jet wash and for £2.50 and 10mins of my time, I have a nice clean bike I washed it by hand once. Never again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannybee Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I don't mind - it's an easy clean, just take it to the local Texaco jet wash and for £2.50 and 10mins of my time, I have a nice clean bike I washed it by hand once. Never again.I thought you went to hell if you jetwashed a bike [emoji1] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I don't mind - it's an easy clean, just take it to the local Texaco jet wash and for £2.50 and 10mins of my time, I have a nice clean bike I washed it by hand once. Never again.I thought you went to hell if you jetwashed a bike [emoji1]I could walk to hell faster than it takes me to hand wash it Make no mistake, I'm a rider - not a wash & admirer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fq-craigus Posted November 12, 2014 Author Share Posted November 12, 2014 I blast the crap off from a distance with a jetwash but get up close and personal to clean it as the muck gets in everywhere and i use parrafin in the bucket which does a top job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorian Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I clean mine every 2 weeks. Wheel bike out onto the center stand. de-crap the chain and re-lube it. tighten the chain if needed. check fluid levels. Spray with water. Spray over some muc-off. come back 5 mins and spray with water. Then dry with microfibre cloth. Put chrome polish (on the chrome duh) leave it about 10-15minutes and wipe it off. THen a little ACF-50 on the engine and some other metal parts. Good to go!Whole process takes maybe an hour? I don't mind to much i like to know my bike looks nice and is in a good condition ^^I'm sure that will change soon =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fq-craigus Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 The last couple of washes i have used the scottoiler equilivrnt to acf50 and its great, i put it all over the bike and come cleaning time the mid and crap just comes off easy as anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Sunday - cleaned the bike looking all pristine... came back looking like this;Sigh... They have these wonderful things called mudguards nowadays mate. Maybe you should fit some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fq-craigus Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 I got one of those and it does naff all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 They have these wonderful things called mudguards nowadays mate. Maybe you should fit some Such as the one installed on the bike as shown above?!The reason why there's so much mud on the back is because I took away the huge ugly number plate in exchange for a tidy but illegal tiny one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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