Wash Clean and Polish

[VTRDark]

I will either have to wait until next Summer to try that one out or paint my bike Yellow. But if you have a good coating of wax it is bound to make it harder for anything to stick and anything that does attach will be far easier to remove.

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[VTRDark]

Well folks I have been at it again. Just spent the last 5 hours washing, cleaning and waxing. I decided to give it a thorough going over and remove all previous coatings and start again.

I started with spraying some Bilt Hamber Auto-wheel over my wheels and calipers. While that was soaking in I gave the chain a degrease with a strong mix Bilt Surfex degreasent, I also gave some other bits a degrease as well. Once that was done I gave the wheels and brakes a good scrub with a brush to agitate the Auto-wheel. By now it had all turned Red and dripping everywhere so rinsed it all down.

I washed the bike with some G3 Detox which removes all precious coating of wax and stuff, then dried the bike off. I then gave it a coat of Bilt Cleanser polish, two coats of Bilt Finis-wax and finally 2 coats of Bilt Hydra-wax. I applied this to all my paintwork and I also done my mirrors, cans, dash/windscreen, hugger, pretty much everything apart from the engine and wheels. I gave the wheels a coat of Liquid Shield.

Once this was all done I went around and re-greased/WD-40ed whatever needed doing. I wiped my chain over with old engine oil and then gave it a squirt of Muc Off Teflon chain lube. Engine had a wipe over with some old oil on a rag. I also gave my plastic controls, light switch etc a wipe over with this as well. My bike is looking nice and shiny and nearly ready for it MOT. I need to tighten my head bearings a tad as I notice a bit of play when I had it off the ground

It's looking lovely and shiny. So that's.....
1 coat of Cleanser Polish
2 coats of Finis-wax
2 coats of Hydra wax

The only thing I haven't done is polish my rearsets. I may get out tomorrow and do that. I have some Bilt Auto-Balm to try.

As you have gathered I am a bit of a Bilt Hamber fan. Lovely products that does what it says it does. http://www.bilthamber.com/

I removed any bins and took some quick pics of how my bike is looking.













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[agentpineapple]

looking very nice carlos.....
and i should know. having seen your bike a couple of weeks ago.....(it looked like a winter hack. )

[VTRDark]

Yes it needed it badly after all that snow and ice it was looking very mucky.

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[AMCQ46]

its come up nice

[agentpineapple]

looks like your headers are going brown again dude.....

[VTRDark]

They are, but I'm not polishing them again, it's a waste of time. I may get some Gold titanium weave and wrap them. It's either that or ceramic coating, but I'm pulling towards wrapping them eventually.

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[chric]

Nice work carl looks well shiney
Send me your details again as im getting rid welll sorting stuff out next few week it's all gone a bit daft have ended up with 20ltr of glass cleaner with buying double thinking i had none left.And same with other stuff

[BigVeeGrin]

inspiring Carl.

Reading the first post though one thing gives cause for concern. As an alpha male biker bloke like all of us why is this important carlo

I also am not that impressed with the application as I felt it is quite runny and a bit milky. It also does not have a nice perfumed smell too it

[VTRDark]

I think I'm getting a fetish

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[lloydie]

looks great carl but them rusty nuts and bolts are letting it down

i need to order some products from them as kermit needs a good rubbing down

[VTRDark]

The nuts and bolts looked worse than that. I done what I could, but should taken a toothbrush too them really. The worst ones are those calliper bolts. Winter has taken it's toll

How did you MOT go today mate?

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[lloydie]

Passed

[tony.mon]

I like the way with the first photo in the thread it looks like the rear wheel is spokeless.....

[AMCQ46]

He polished it away