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| PLEASE ... don't use the towels or washcloths found in your hotel room to scrub your bike. Take a minute to walk down to the front desk, and ask them for a couple of "cleaning rags" so you can knock the bugs off your bike. Most places keep a huge supply of old, tattered towels and the like for their room cleaning staff, and will gladly round up a few for you, just so you DON'T use their "good stuff" for washing bugs off. Being responsible in this fashion will make life easier for all the other motorcyclists that might stop at that motel in the future. As far as general cleaning my bike, I was her down good 3 or 4 times a year with hot water and cheap dish soap. Then, after a thorough drying, she gets a couple coats of good carnauba wax. Between washings, I use a can of plain old Pledge for cleanups. Works great on the windshield to remove bugs (spray it on, let it set for 2 or 3 minutes, then _gently_ rub it off), plus it leaves a light coat of wax so that tomorrows bugs come off easier as well. It does a nice job on the plastics too, between the regular wash/wax cycles. That's important on a bike with as much Tupperware as my Honda Pacific Coast. It also works just as well on the helmet and faceshield. I keep a can of Pledge and two or three soft rags in the trunk all the time. I'd recommend again the "lemon scented" Pledge, unless you like to engage in kung-fu fighting with bees every time you stop at a traffic light! Ask me how I know...
Dean in Oregon
98 Honda PC800 Pacific Coast
"It's more fun to go into a corner slow and come out fast than to go in fast and come out dead."
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BMWGS (8/18/2008)
ibafran (8/17/2008)
"Like a clean desk, a clean bike is the sign of a sick mind." I and many others see it the other way around. Geeez Louise, Rootie!!! I left this one specificly for you! If you aint gonna take it, let me know?!! I figure that its fair game for anyone by now. Posters are invited to beat Rootie to the punchline.
nobody rides half as well as they know how.
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BMWGS (8/18/2008)
ibafran (8/17/2008)
"Like a clean desk, a clean bike is the sign of a sick mind." I and many others see it the other way around. OK. I stand corrected. "Like a clean bike, a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind."
nobody rides half as well as they know how.
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ibafran (8/17/2008)[hr ... I washed my bike this saturday past. ... Are there any advantages to having a clean bike? As noted, I recently washed my bike. Shortly thereafter by several days, I inadvertently touched my horn button. The horn hasn't worked for a bunch of years. In previous posts way back when, it was noted that trying to find the cure for the non-working horn without tearing into a lot of wiring harness wasnt working. I imagine my surprise when the horn beeped? It beeped several more times as the button was activated. What Ho?!!! A pleasant surprise! It continued to work for several days. Did the bike washing solve this problem? Apparently not. The bike is still pretty clean. The horn quit working the other day. Previous washings did not get it to work. And a subsequent washing didnt help either. Alas. The horn remains a mystery. Yet its mistique endures and abounds.
nobody rides half as well as they know how.
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