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Cleaning your bike
KXcam22:
I used to pressure wash after every ride. Now that I only use the garden hose my linkage bearings last a long time. Cam.
John:
I just spray all the messy parts with white spirit before I pressure wash it off. The new environmental friendly cleaners are not up to the job and they are expensive too. What doesn't go away can stay... When it's clean I spray all the areas exposed to wheel mud-showers with WD-40 or similar. The mud comes off a lot easier if the surface is oily. And then the usual maintanace.
Why would you polish the plastic? Is it so the dust doesn't stick? Silicon sounds like a good idea, any special brand or type you can recomend?
//John
hughes:
I would say that we are not polishing the plastic but adding shine to it. Silicon makes cleaning the bike easier after riding and from my expericene helps reduce scratching of the plastic from every day riding.
machine:
And brings color back to faded plastic!
KXcam22:
Hi,
Lemon Pledge works pretty good on plastic, especially clear goggle lenses and windscreens (my dad used to use it on jetplane plexi windows). Another product I just started using a month ago, which is tuning out to quite excellent is Motuls "silicon clean". Really good for shining up faded plastic, quite a bit better the the old standby armour all. I did a side-by-side shine test with all 3 on the same faded plastic parts and the silicon clean was vastly superior. Cam.
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