cleaning chrome items such as exhaust that get hot??

[alantf]

Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran

are there places or people that will shine it all up for you?

Won't the Boy Scouts still do it? :roll:

[Sarris]

My local Harley dealer offers a bike wash and dry for $10 (plus tip of course) and will wash both the HD and the GZ. A full blown detail & wax is $65.

Cool, huh?

:2tup:

[dannylightning]

Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran

Thanks Dupo... course my bike is a lot bigger than yours, might take a lot longer . Actually, no one has answered my original question - are there places or people that will shine it all up for you? I'm lazy -- it takes every ounce of ambition I have just to put gas in the thing (which I gotta do far too often.) I got leather hard luggage, there's probably something I should be putting on those too to keep them from drying out and cracking. Maybe at the dealer?

those little girls that stand on the side of the road with the car wash signs will do it, well probably not them but the other kids in the parking lot will when i drive by on my bike they point and yell at me but i never stop. i like to do it my self.



to the people that don't wash your bike often, remember this. the cleaner it is when you wash it the eaiser it is to get the dirt off. if i do the bike once a week it takes me about 2 min to wash and rince the bike when the dirt cakes on its hard to get off.

[alanmcorcoran]

Originally Posted by Sarris

My local Harley dealer offers a bike wash and dry for $10 (plus tip of course) and will wash both the HD and the GZ. A full blown detail & wax is $65.

Cool, huh?

:2tup:

I figured dealers would probably do it. I'll keep an eye out. Re, girls by the side of the road, I'd be worried about them burning themselves or effing up the bike.

[dannylightning]

well i got some chrome polish and shined the thing up real good like..

[burkbuilds]

Last Friday afternoon I rode by "Hog Wild Cycles" and they had this tall, curvy girl in high heels and skimpy black leather outside washing bikes, and the parking lot was full! I don't know what she was charging or how good a job she was doing, but there are obviously a lot of bikers that prefer to have someone else wash their bike as long as they get to watch! :biggrin:

Oh, yeah almost forgot. I prefer chrome polish for cleaning up the grime off my chrome, but then I do put a coat of something like McGuire's Deep Luster over the chrome when I'm done cleaning it.

[dannylightning]

Originally Posted by burkbuilds

Last Friday afternoon I rode by "Hog Wild Cycles" and they had this tall, curvy girl in high heels and skimpy black leather outside washing bikes, and the parking lot was full! I don't know what she was charging or how good a job she was doing, but there are obviously a lot of bikers that prefer to have someone else wash their bike as long as they get to watch!

was she in a bikini?? O_o

[burkbuilds]

I'm not sure if that was technically a bikini, but it didn't have a lot of material to it!

[dannylightning]

Originally Posted by burkbuilds

I'm not sure if that was technically a bikini, but it didn't have a lot of material to it!

I dont think i would stop :roll:

[burkbuilds]

Judging from the crowd in their parking lot, I think you (and I) would be in the minority. I'll have to admit I nearly drove off the road when I went by. But I had places to go and people to see, so I washed my bike by myself the next day.