What products do you use to clean and polish your bike? What can you do to get rid of the micro scratches and restore the paint to its original shine?
What products do you use to clean and polish your bike? What can you do to get rid of the micro scratches and restore the paint to its original shine?
06 Honda Civic EX
25/36 MPG
0-60 9.6 seconds
Quarter Mile 17.3
08 Ducati 848 (Ferrari red)
09 Honda cbr600rr (green/black)
07 Yamaha r6R (blue)
05 Kawasaki zx6r 636 (lime green)
99 Honda Shadow ACE 750 (red/black)
I use Finish Line Grunge Buster. It's like $7 for a 4oz bottle.
Mix it little bit with water in a cup and use an old tooth brush. If you have a stand just put the bike in nutrual and run the toothbrush over the chain (or put it in first gear and so the same).
The cleaner and tooth brush will break everything up - poor the used cleaner/water onto the chain and wipe clean with a towel/cloth.
Take along with a toothbrush and small can of chain lube on long multiday rides.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
I read a review on Glare products a little while back and decided to try them. Definitely the best polish and light scratch removers I've ever tried.
You can buy them here: http://www.glare.com/
You can read the same reviews that convinced me here:
http://www.webbikeworld.com/r3/swirl-remover/
http://www.webbikeworld.com/r2/glare...are-polish.htm
By the way, I use an orbital polisher. The Spider swirl remover works much better with one of those. I tried it by hand first and didn't get great results. Then I plugged in the orbital polisher and the stuff really works in getting out those swirl marks and light scratches.
Just wash and wax your bike like a car, same products work. Don't get wax on your matte plastics though. I recommend using Motorex Chain Clean to get rid of any tar or oil sticking around, as well as cleaning the chain too.
George Mock | 2008 ZX6R | GoPro Hero | 3:551 5806
Stripper Juice Works the best of anything I've ever used. As the bottle says, "Fast, easy, and gets you off clean."
Have owned: '01 Volusia
Currently own: '05 Z750S
I use honda polish. Smells so good and cleans/waxes.
pledge
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Retirement, the kids to leave home, the weather or the economy, that's not living. That's waiting!
Waiting will only leaves us with unrealized dreams and empty wishes.
Simple green for dirty bits, normal spray wax on painted parts.
-Travis-
I use meguiars quick detailer for the plastics if they aren't too dirty(on a terry cloth), and rubbing compound(3M) if I want to take it down to bare(no wax, dirt, etc). Also, clay bars work great for the same thing. I use meguiars cleaner wax. Plexus works quite well on the windshields and helmet shields.
'16 Kawasaki Ninja 1000
'12 Kawasaki Concours14 - Sold
'08 Kawasaki Concours14 - Sold
'05 Suzuki SV1000S - Sold
'07 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 - Sold
Cleaning: hose and a brush. Simple Green, various chain cleaners.
Polishing: Honda Brite or Pledge and Plexus
When life throws you curves, aim for the apex
Current stable: 09 Thruxton \ 09 FZ6S2 Sold List: 97 Ninja500R, 03 SV650K3, 01 Ducati 750Sport, 73 CB350/4, 03 F650GSA, 08 Gixxer600, 03 Gixxer600, 91 VFR750F, 09 KLX250, 06 Thruxton 900, 02 VFR800, 08 Spyder RS, 12 Street TripleR, 09 KLX250S, 16 KTMRC390, 10 F650GS
my Facebook, SpeedShots
Mequires, and some Bug&Tar remover.
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"...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
-Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Blu/Wht '01 Gixxer 1K, '91 KX500
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Tokin' SortaTalian
(Pronounced: Kind-A-Dago)
I use Vellos.
When he replies to his PMs.
~Brandon~
Aprilia RSV 1000 R Factory - "Gemma"
MV Agusta F3 800 - "Amy Lou"
Rattan Fat Bear Plus - "Lynda"
(720) 935-6438
I rarely think of motorcycles without a little yearning. They are about moving, and humans, I think, yearn to move – it’s in our cells, in our desires. We quiet our babies with cyclic movement, and we quiet ourselves by going.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Pledge lol... I just use what they use at work to wash cars. She comes out shiny, smelling like cherry and ready to glow.
www.mo-door.com
https://64degreeracing.com/
2003 VFR800
2007 GSX-R600
2007 R1
2003 R6 Race bike
2010 Ducati SF1098
2016 60th R1
2018 Aprilia Tuono V4 1100RR
2024 Aprilia Tuono Factory Ultra Gold
Motorex for the chain
Honda Polish or Plexus for the rest
Glitter Factory Racing
MRA #415
Sol Performance - Pirelli Tires
Honda Polish for me as well. Even though it's called something else now, it's still Honda Polish.
Chadwick
MRA #825
"You live more for five minutes going fast on a bike like that, than other people do in all of their life." - Marco Simoncelli
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"...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
-Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Blu/Wht '01 Gixxer 1K, '91 KX500
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Tokin' SortaTalian
(Pronounced: Kind-A-Dago)
~Brandon~
Aprilia RSV 1000 R Factory - "Gemma"
MV Agusta F3 800 - "Amy Lou"
Rattan Fat Bear Plus - "Lynda"
(720) 935-6438
I rarely think of motorcycles without a little yearning. They are about moving, and humans, I think, yearn to move – it’s in our cells, in our desires. We quiet our babies with cyclic movement, and we quiet ourselves by going.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Have owned: '01 Volusia
Currently own: '05 Z750S
~Brandon~
Aprilia RSV 1000 R Factory - "Gemma"
MV Agusta F3 800 - "Amy Lou"
Rattan Fat Bear Plus - "Lynda"
(720) 935-6438
I rarely think of motorcycles without a little yearning. They are about moving, and humans, I think, yearn to move – it’s in our cells, in our desires. We quiet our babies with cyclic movement, and we quiet ourselves by going.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Yup
Bulldog's Motto: F*ck around and I'm going to bite you!!!
Do you apply the honda polish with a microcloth or do you use an orbital?
06 Honda Civic EX
25/36 MPG
0-60 9.6 seconds
Quarter Mile 17.3
08 Ducati 848 (Ferrari red)
09 Honda cbr600rr (green/black)
07 Yamaha r6R (blue)
05 Kawasaki zx6r 636 (lime green)
99 Honda Shadow ACE 750 (red/black)
Spray it on, wipe it with one side of the micro, flip micro over and polish.
Chadwick
MRA #825
"You live more for five minutes going fast on a bike like that, than other people do in all of their life." - Marco Simoncelli