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I do a "cleaning" every 3 months or 1250 miles at a minimum. There are exceptions ... I use the Honda Wax/Cleaner to remove bugs when they get bad ...... The Fat Bottom Girls is Vivid Black ... so ... If I cleaned it every time it "showed" dirt ... I'd never get to ride it ...
The ceramic coating isn’t enough to take care of the bugs? I thought after this stuff was applied it only took a good water rinse-off to take care of any/all grime...??Originally Posted by FuzzyWuzHe
I do a "cleaning" every 3 months or 1250 miles at a minimum. There are exceptions ... I use the Honda Wax/Cleaner to remove bugs when they get bad ...
New course heading Mr. Sulu: ...2nd star to the right and straight on til morning...!!
Scooter and Sassi....2 furrever.
I ride a lot in the rain here in Florida
Once a month usual for me
I use Pledge polish in between washing
Nuff Said," Were Burnin Daylight, Lets Ride"(Sober 37 years)
Current ride : 2021 FREEWHEELER M8, oldest ride 1960 FL
I'm at my 2 year anniversary & I have not washed it (soap & water).
The HD spray can polish the dealer gave me works well, but Lucas Speed Wax is my favorite because it is fast & easy.
I also have Original Bike Spirits Spray Cleaner & Polish, which is close to the HD spray polish.
I plan on washing it this fall after my trip to Durango, CO.
2017 Harley Davidson Freewheeler (107 cu.in. vivid black).
Yea .. that's true ... but ... the Honda stuff is faster than rinsing and drying ... the bugs basically wipe off.
6 years old and never been washed. Rains a lot down here and I get in it ALOT. Wipe it down while wet with clean towels.
That seems to do it except for the front wheel.
That I have cleaned.............well maybe I have cant remember the last time.
If on a trip , will hit a DIY wand wash. Then use up the rest of the time on myself !
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.
When the weather cooperates, I usually get 3-4 weeks between detailed type washing. For routine dust and bug removal, I use Purple Slice.
2016 Tri Glide Billet Silver w/Pinstripes ["Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!"]
• "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us." ..... James Truslow Adams
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I'm always washing and waxing my bike....I will not be seen with my trike, unless it's clean and waxed up...
Everytime it rains I sit in my garage and wax away!!!
I probably have 8-10 coats of wax on her by now .....I put my headphones on/and rock out to my favorite group (led Zeppelin) This is my way of relaxing..... I hate to be bothered, and interrupted while waxing, so I shut the garage door, [and pretend I'm not home] while I'm waxing, I always have friends that just drop by and that totally kills the mood!
OR I wash it and ride down the street to a park very near me, and I have my favorite shade tree that I park under, and wax here there.....
Life is Good!!
Ronnie
Well. 390 miles on the new 19 and got caught in the rain. I'm in farm country so by the time I was done riding. It needed soap and water. Just using spray cleaner would have prematurely put the dreaded swirls in the vivid black paint. I remember why I hate vivid black. Lol. My Roadglide was Black quartz. didnt show the dirt as bad. I'll soap and water it when it needs it. Other than that I clean it with the Harley spray cleaner. Works good. I dont mind doing it all the time. I have a lift which makes it so much easier.
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