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How often do you wax your motorcycle??
Am I nuts/crazy or just whacked out??
But everytime it rains (for the day) I sit in my garage and give her a complete wax job.....(I put on my headphones and rock out to led Zeppelin ) I figure that I have approx six-eights coats [or more] of wax on my "Blacky" (that's her name!!)
Ronnie
Once or twice a year.......More often if i'm bored' Maybe.......But then with my 2014 Ram which costs almost twice the price that my last bike did.....Never...But thats just me,Originally Posted by Burnerboy
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Hell i'll wear the same underwear for 30 days, Then reverse them for 30 more..
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Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar.....
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I thought I over do it. I wax a least once a month, Wash it after every ride and use Mequires Ultimate Detailer in after each wash.
Once or twice a year.......More often if i'm bored' Maybe.......But then with my 2014 Ram which costs almost twice the price that my last bike did.....Never...But thats just me,
Hell i'll wear the same underwear for 30 days, Then reverse them for 30 more.
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I usually clean, detail, wax after each ride. Hate to leave it dirty.
Often, since I know I'll be doing it again after my next ride, use Meguires Cleaner Wax. Sometimes, I use Liquid Glass just because it's easy to put on / take off or buff.
Make Courtesy Your "Code of the Road" too!
Average about once a month . . .
. . . all year 'round! I ride 110 miles/day min. Mon-Fri. As much as I like to ride a clean and shiny trike, I would much rather be riding than cleaning! If ever I'm faced with making a choice to clean or ride . . . it'll be ride every time!
Ride SMART, Ride SAFE . . . but R I D E !
Cal
Dave Calahan
Fredericksburg, VA
'07 GL1800 w/'18 Road Smith 1800HTS
Just a guess, you work in DC.
I have a vehicle program that I wrote to document all I do on all my vehicles ... even the trash trailer. LOL
This program reminds me to do such things as maintenance and cleaning ... also stores all receipts and pictures of "stuff" I do to them.
This program reminds me to do an appearance maintenance every 3 months or 1250 miles ... I almost never make it because I end up doing that stuff sooner. Usually I do a cleaning like every two weeks or so ... but that is usually just to rinse off the dust (we get the Utah red dust here bad) ... then I use Honda wax/cleaner to get rid of the little amount of water spots that are left.
My new plan is to redo the ceramic stuff once a year during the winter.
When I had white or at least light colored vehicles, I hardly ever did any "waxing" ... the dust just didn't show as much, so, I would just rinse and go.
That’s done before the winter rest.
Right now my new hobby is a bug collection. Got many juicers on the windscreen and rear fenders. No one steals a gross bike
2012 Triglide Piaggio MP3 500 to get groceries 1991 FLHS as back up
"Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it !"
Tiffany, Olive, Daisy, “The Three Musketeers” together again.
I was just reading a article in Rocket Science Weekly.. And they recommend not waxing a vehicle's surface... In a wind tunnel test conducted at the University of Ohio , The Sandusky campus....Their finding were;
A layer of wax on pigment 'ie paint, Absorbs Sunlight which causes an molecular level of negative drag [Slowdown and extra fuel consumption]...More noticeably in ambient and non-ambient air....And that might be a contributing factor to Climate Change.....
Their conclusion is do not wax your vehicles so as to save the planet...
Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar.....
2019 Tri-Glide.......
Data! We’ve been looking everywhere for you since you disappeared from Star Trek!
New course heading Mr. Sulu: ...2nd star to the right and straight on til morning...!!
Scooter and Sassi....2 furrever.
Hmmmm ... I've been called a lot of things ... never an analytical, totally logical, robot with an emotion chip he can turn on or off ... interesting.
For the record ... I did "wax" my trike this morning ....
These things take wax?
The only waxing I've done with the FW is the Ford pickup I waxed coming off the stoplights a couple of weeks ago.
Waxed his ass good...
Yea ... but you you carry 500# of fire wood????? LOLThese things take wax?
The only waxing I've done with the FW is the Ford pickup I waxed coming off the stoplights a couple of weeks ago.
Waxed his ass good...
O' know, now I've done it, the whole planet is doomed!I was just reading a article in Rocket Science Weekly.. And they recommend not waxing a vehicle's surface... In a wind tunnel test conducted at the University of Ohio , The Sandusky campus....Their finding were;
A layer of wax on pigment 'ie paint, Absorbs Sunlight which causes an molecular level of negative drag [Slowdown and extra fuel consumption]...More noticeably in ambient and non-ambient air....And that might be a contributing factor to Climate Change.....
Their conclusion is do not wax your vehicles so as to save the planet...and Trump will be blamed!
just because I waxed my "Blacky" (NOW I'm depressed!) LOL
(that was a good come-back by the way) I did laugh!
Ronnie
You know Ronnie one day your grandchildren are going to look up at you and ask;O' know, now I've done it, the whole planet is doomed!
(that was a good come-back by the way
Ronnie
Grandpa, What did you do during the Great Climate Change War?
And all you will be able to say is;' 'I waxed my Bike''........
Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar.....
2019 Tri-Glide.......
You know Ronnie one day your grandchildren are going to look up at you and ask;
Grandpa, What did you do during the Great Climate Change War?
And all you will be able to say is;' 'I waxed my Bike''....You know even back in school, my principal told my parents, that I would always be a "troubled causing person".............Dang he was correct!!
Suspicions confirm 😁...
Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar.....
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love you all.....
Hey! He started it!
Did you at least tell the other guy you were racing him🙄 I won a lot of races by not telling them 😁🙄🙄😃Hey! He started it!
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