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10 Tips to CLEAN Your Motorcycle and Kits

For your KIT

Fly away:
The best way to remove swarms of dead flies stuck to your helmet, leathers  and visor is to soak some kitchen towel in water and leave it on for about 10  minutes. This loosens the tiny, twisted little corpses and they will wipe off  with minimal fuss. Alternatively, you can remove them using multi purpose cleaning liquid, eg. Muc Off Rescue Kit, especially for visor, which you need to ensure it is polycarbonate friendly to prevent undesirable chemical effect.

Two in a bath:
Clean your filthy, stinky helmet by giving it a bath. This is the easiest way  of renovating a previously horrible lid and it works wonders. Run a bath so it’s  about one foot deep with lukewarm water, submerge your helmet and go make a cup  of tea. On your return use a pH neutral baby shampoo to really work a lather  into the helmet’s liner. You’ll be horrified at the black scrunge and creatures  of the deep that come out. Clean the cheek pads and chin bar in the same way,  rinse it out with clean water and leave it base-down to drip-dry onto a towel or  use a fan to blow cool air into it. You can get in with your helmet if you must.  NEVER EVER dry with a hairdryer, this could damage the lid. OR you can clean your inner padding using Muc Off Foam Fresh, so you not even need to remove them from helmet and save the hassle of fixing it back. The Anti-bacterial and Fragrance will surely freshen your ride.  OR you can refresh your helmet using Sharp Plasmacluster Helmet Cleaner, you need to leave it for few hours, so it is better if you leave it overnight. Bear in mind, it will only remove the bad smell which caused by bacteria, if your helmet stick with other odour causing agent like cigarettle smell, the effect will be minimal.

Bug splat:
If you get raspberry jammed by a big bug or wasp that explodes all over your  visor, immediately turn your helmet to the side. This allows the windblast to  blow the shattered hymenoptera off your visor before it hardens into an  impenetrable insect-goo.

Right scrubber:
Treat your leathers like your hands. Wash them with saddle soap (available  from any horse equipment shop) and treat the leather afterwards with a  moisturising oil-based cream. Never hang them above a radiator to dry, they will  crack and shrink. The same is true for horses.


For your BIKE

Sticker fix:
If you’re removing unwanted stickers don’t reach for the solvent, grab your  girlfriend’s hairdryer. Gently warm the sticker, it’ll come off with no hassle  and leave virtually no sticky residue.

Clean gleam:
Spray the bike with a de-greasing agent and leave it to soak in for five  minutes. Then wash with a dedicated vehicle shampoo, and use separate buckets  for the wheels and bodywork to avoid transferring dirt and scratching the  plastics. Finally, use a chamois leather to dry and apply a wax finish to  protect the plastics.

Brillo brilliance:
Titanium exhaust cans scratch easily but using a scouring pad and gently  rubbing at the mark can often remove it. When the R1 had a titanium can, Yamaha  actually included a scouring pad in the packing crate so mechanics could remove  marks caused during transit.

Mirror shine:
Rub kitchen aluminium foil on your bike’s chrome parts to make them look like  new. You will be amazed at the effect this has while the missus will be amazed  you know where the foil’s kept.

Rust away:
The worst thing you can do is put a bike away wet, so dry it with some  cloths. Clean the bike once a week during winter and apply a salt-neutralising  protective spray, allowing it to dry between coats. During the week apply more  spray to the front of the bike as it gets washed away.

Scratch out:
If only the surface lacquer is scratched on your paintwork you can use a  cutting polish such as T-Cut to recover it, but anything deeper you need to put  paint in, polish is a waste of time. Run your nail along the scratch, if it  catches you need paint as the scratch is too deep.






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