Best way to polish this baby?

bazola

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Hi guys,

I have just got this bike home and I want to know the best products to polish the black. There are slight light marks around the tank from leather rub and I was wondering which polish you thought would be best?

Do I use the black T Cut polish to try and remove this? I am worried that if I get this on the none black transfers it may damage them and cause them to go black?

Any advice and I dont want to ruin her before I ride her? lol

Cheers

Baz
 
Most bike fairings are plastic, I think even the tanks now are mainly plastic or some sort of composite of some kind. I just use normal car-washing liquid. Make sure you cover the exhaust up so water doesn't get into it. Bucket and hot soapy water is the best thing, make sure you rinse it all off afterwards. Then use a chamois leather to pick up all the excess water and dry it off without water marks. Then check all the vital areas and make sure they are dry. Maybe re-lube your chain. I tend to run the engine for 5 minutes to dry off the "hard to reach" places.

Cleaning a bike is a good way of checking for any leaks of oil etc, as it displaces the water quite obviously and it does stand out. However looking at that it looks like it's in fantastic condition anyway. :)
 
Mr Sheen is good, i kid you not. Spray it on, leave it a few mins and then polish off, removes well splatted flies and bike looks nice afterwards.
Tried it last summer and it works a treat.

Robb
 
Jonny69 said:
Don't T-Cut anything plastic as it makes the surface go cloudy.
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Yup. Good advice - that's why I made the point about most bike fairings being plastic, but I guess it wasn't obvious what I meant :p
 
Cleaning bikes is MADNESS i tell you. :p
I have cleaned loads of cars but nothing is harder to clean than a bike.
Personally i used to strip all the plastic off and take it indoors. Once indoors i would use a sink full of warm water with a tiny bit of car shampoo in it. A good wash and dry and then a polish up with something like Mr Sheen. Top recommendation from johnny69. I have used this for years on just about everything but especially plastics in car.
Once stripped of all plastic that's where the Madness starts. God damn tiny gaps to poke about in and try to get spotless. After bashing my hands to bits and getting it nearly as clean as i want it i would use the dreaded chain lube. Anti fling my Butt. Crap all over the ******* place again.
Then you go off for a gentle ride which within 300 metres turns into death race two thousand until within 40 mins you need petrol.

:( I miss my bike. :D :p
 
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