Cleaning your bike

Hey all VFR owners,

What do you use to clean your bike? I am looking for some good stuff that cleans off the road grime shines things up and cleans the rims up well, using a single product. I am asking this for my long travels and on the road cleaning.

Thanks,

Steve

 

I have heard many differnt things. Honda has a cleaner that I hear is good. I have heard (on another forum) that Pledge works, I have another wash soap at home and I will get the name and post it for you. For the wheels, i used Black magic Wheel cleaner and some degrease that is orange in color. I don't know the name right off hand but I got it at Wlamart. It cleaned mywhite wheels up real good.

 

I've tried a few different cleaners but the one I've settled on is a spray cleaner called The BOM, which stands for Best Overall Method. I use it on the whole bike with a couple micro cloths folded in quarter squares. After a few passes, I open the cloth up and use a different clean "square". I use it on my 1800 Neo and my truck as well. Beads water superbly as I found out today after getting caught in a downpour. A bottle is around $25 and it lasts me about 2 years between the three vehicles. Does a great job at taking hard water spots off of glass and mirrors too. I'm sure there are alot of good products out there, try to experiment and see what works best for you.

 

Vinny,

Thanks for the reply... The cleaner from Honda is Plexus. Stuff really works great!!

 

I use the Honda spray cleaner & polish for the my entire bike body / rims etc,etc,.......for my chain I use the BEL-RAY chain lube, no spills comes out dries kinda waxy cream...

 

+1 for Honda Polish. The stuff is fantastic. Spray on, wipe off. And it goes on everything, paint, plastics, mirrors, the whole damn bike.

Does wonders for road grime wipes right off and bugs are an easy chore. If your bugs are crusty, run a towel under warm water and let it sit on the front for 5 or 10. They'll wipe right off.

 

Ok. I remembered tolook today, the organe degreaser I use is Greased Lightning Orange Blast and I also have Liquid Performance Cycle Wash but I have not really tried it yet as I don't have an outside water spigot to hook a hose do (this means I need a house, anyone wanna donate one? :wink

This Liquid Performance stuff can be found here: Liquid Performance

 

Are there any excellent recommendations for a good wheel cleaner especially for apparent baked on grease on the wheel.
Thanks ahead.

 

I like Simple Green to get off any nasty dirt/bugs/grease and Meguiars Synth Spray Detailer for keeping that shine. I also like their NTX wax, but using the spray I only wax the bike about twice a year.

Spray Detailer



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