Tip on cleaning bike - found someone!

[j.silvs]

As I have been riding it, I don't want the salt from roads being on it.

Could I just clean the plastics with a flash wipe?

Any advice appreciated

[Benno]

Hosepipe is probably best, and if you want it looking nice buy some bike cleaner, cheap at halfords

Use a sponge and hot water to remove the more stubborn bits.

This is what I do at least.
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[stuartt]

hose pipe & cold water till the bike looks clean then bucket & sponge hosing as you go .

if you use wipe you'll scratch it if its dirty .

[j.silvs]

Ok thanks, and if I don't have a hosepipe lol?

[Hevra]

A few buckets of cold water... I don't have a hosepipe either, have to cart buckets up and down the stairs (kitchen & bathroom are on first floor). Sucks, but better than corroded bike.

Going to get the bike sprayed by the allyearbiker chap in Worcester on Saturday, hopefully that helps keep the crap on the roads from eating my bike.
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[Benno]

[Clutchy]

Bit of gizer (diluted) and then use the steam cleaner/ hot pressure washer, does a brilliant job.
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[magpiemale]

If you do not have a hose pipe get a spray from argos or B AND Q from qualcast 5 ltr hose sprayer with lance fill pump n go £17.I used this before I added a tap outside cold water safe with salt warm water with road salt and watch your bike melt lol as warm water speeds up corrosion.
As for cleaning the bike I clean my bike once a week or 3 and use acf50 or scotoiler corrosion spray inbetween washes.My bike cleaner is hein gericke 5 ltr gel works like a good-un.
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[Benno]

Oh actually, you can often find water sprays at petrol stations, you could use one of those.
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[magpiemale]

Are'nt those car wash lances benno lol
The water sprayer I used are the ones used for weed killling you get em up to 7ltr's with a lance pressurise then spray,some bikes are more prone to corrosion than others I have had 2 fz1's and they wash up well my chopped in 5 year old bike looked like a 2 year old bike it was tidy.
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[magpiemale]

Same wavelength HT
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[Clutchy]

spray some wd-40 on the electrics at the end? We have so much at work and I've never had a problem.
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[Paulington]

Ooh, I am good with this! . I am a bit anal when it comes to this stuff and what I do is likely way too much for the average person, but I like to keep my bikes/cars sparkling. .

On the GSX-R, this gets done at least weekly. I do it in order too.

1) Park it up and use the "jet" function on our hosepipe to wash it off. Once that's done I get our jet washer and use it on the LOWEST power/pressure, firstly to get off the stuff the normal hosepipe didn't get off and then I put soap designed for the jet washer in the jet washer's in-built soap bottle and connect it to the jet washer's brush connection, that way I can brush it, put the soap on it and it gets washed off at the same time with the pressure washer. Basically the soap in the in-built soap bottle gets mixed in with the water before it comes out of the pressure washer so it gets put on with the water, it's absolutely amazing for this. .

2) Rinse all that off with the "rain" function on the hosepipe and dry it with microfibre towels then the chamois leather.

3) Wax it, I have blue, white and black wax for the different parts of the bike. First I use a slightly more abrasive wax compound all over the bike, put on and taken off with microfibre wax towels, then once that's done I use the different coloured less-abrasive Turtle-Wax compounds on the bike, put that on and leave for 20-30 minutes and then take it off with the microfibre wax cloths again.

The small parts like the brake calipers, brake discs, rear shock and various other small bits get cleaned with toothbrushes, I buy a pack of ten for £1 at the local pound shop for each clean as they usually break. !

Anyway, this is really over the top for most people but the whole rinse --> wash over with cold water and cloth/sponge --> wash over with hot soapy water with a cloth/sponge --> rinse off with the hosepipe and cold water will do for most people, if you want to wax it, you can do that too. .

All year bikers, make sure to wash the salt and crud off and, if you ARE using a pressure washer make sure you have it on an uber-low setting as bikes aren't protected in the way that cars are from high pressure water so it could lead to damage, so be careful! .

Cheers! .
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[pinkyfloyd]

Cleaning the bike is done in 2 easy steps:

Step 1. Look at the bike and assess what needs cleaned.

Step 2. Go make a coffee and forget about it.

Repeat after each ride.
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[j.silvs]

Found a place in canary wharf. Costed £20 and came out really nice!! Other places were £30

Service came with:

Prewash
Hand Degrease, Wash foam bath
Rinse and dried
AutoGlym Radiant Wax
Hand polished paintwork, trim and chrome
leather cleaned and care applied

Took them an hour in total. Really nice guys!!

Defo recommend them - https://www.carwashers.co.uk/public/index.php?p=motorbikes%20and%20bicycles%20-%20canary%20wharf%20london

[c_dug]

Pfft, pansies, mines not dirty its just used.

Probably clean my bikes once every six months on average.
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[pepperami]

Yes I know that now I put the lance to close to the paintwork and stripped a nice line out of the paint on the mudguard
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[recman]

Am I alone in using a garden leaf blower to dry the bike before whacking on the ACF 50?

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