What did you do to your bike today?

PU7E · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:06

Washed it ready to soak in acf-50 tomorrow.

Has anyone here used acf-50 and can give me a few tips on what to and what not to spray it on i.e exhausts, engine, chain ect?

AndyCr15 · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:23

I can tell you what I do... spray pretty much anything metallic. Give it a wipe over (with a cloth I only use for ACF50) and then run the engine for a few minutes to burn off the excess.

I don't do the chain, that's cleaned, dried and lubed. I don't know if all this is correct though.

ElliorR · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:29

That's where I've been going wrong with ACF50, I've been rubbing it off, ooer, with a cloth I use for rust.

AndyCr15 · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:30

Yeah, this cloth is so soaked in ACF50 now, it doesn't remove it, more rub it in/smear it about

ElliorR · 27 Feb 2013 at 21:39

I keep thinking about getting an air compressor and regularly putting a fine coating of acf50 on my bile.

MADMAN69UK · 27 Feb 2013 at 23:37

I also spray on and wipe with a dedicated ACF-50 cloth

Attempted to clean said cloth after a year of use with ACF-50 the other week. Boiled in a pan for quite a while, over 10 times, with various different types of detergent over several days. Cloth is STILL greasy with the stuff. No wonder it's so good at weather protection

metbandit1 · 28 Feb 2013 at 07:27

Thinking where to mount my gopro on the triple, don't fancy it on the tank because of the speedo etc...

AndyCr15 · 28 Feb 2013 at 08:11

On my CB1000R, it sits on the brake fluid reservoir cap.

metbandit1 · 28 Feb 2013 at 08:20

That sounds like quite a good place actually, have you had any problems with getting your cap off with the mount on there?

AndyCr15 · 28 Feb 2013 at 08:24

Nope. It sits within the circumference, so no issues.

MADMAN69UK · 28 Feb 2013 at 10:19

metbandit1 said:
Thinking where to mount my gopro on the triple, don't fancy it on the tank because of the speedo etc...

Have that issue myself. Mounted it to the tank a few times and got some great footage, but like you say, it also gets a nice clear picture of the speedo

Tried it on my helmet too, but I find it generates too much drag. I'm considering maybe one of those harnesses you can get... Anyone tried one of those?

AndyCr15 · 28 Feb 2013 at 11:03

I'm probably going to get the body harness as I'll be karting next month and I figure this will be the best way to capture it with my GoPro.

Fireskull · 28 Feb 2013 at 12:53

Yea I am going to try the harness too, well borrow my brothers first, I use it on the helmet most of the time but again the drag is awful!

I am going to buy the Ram mount attachment for the GoPro and use it with my stem mount, and tape up the speedo.... :confused:

On Holiday · 28 Feb 2013 at 13:17

Just blur the speedo out on video editing software?

metbandit1 · 28 Feb 2013 at 13:40

YarwoodUK said:
Just blur the speedo out on video editing software?

what happens if you get pulled over before you get home?

The chest harness is supposed to be good.

Fireskull do you mount it on the top of your lid or the side?

ElliorR · 28 Feb 2013 at 13:53

I've had to mask my speedo in a fair few of my videos when I've put the gopro on the tank. Of course I wasn't speeding, quite the opposite, I didn't want people to see how slow I was going. Honest.

Fireskull · 28 Feb 2013 at 14:08

metbandit1 said:
what happens if you get pulled over before you get home?

The chest harness is supposed to be good.

Fireskull do you mount it on the top of your lid or the side?

On the top mate, hate it though, going to buy some more curved mounts and try it on the side too...

Don't the police need a warrant to confiscate a camera?

edd1e · 28 Feb 2013 at 15:39

I have a curved mount stuck to the top of my helmet, seems to work well but the wind noise at anything about 60/70 kinda sucks.

I'm going to try and mount it on the side of the helmet as you get a better view from eye height and also get to see some of the bike too, instead of just the view ahead.

ElliorR · 28 Feb 2013 at 16:26

The drift hd is better as a helmet cam as it doesn't stick out 100 foot like the go pro does. Some people attach the go pro to the front of the helmet on the chin bar.

AndyCr15 · 28 Feb 2013 at 16:30

This is a short sample of when the camera is mounted on my brake fluid reservoir.

Tank view, with suitably placed SatNav.