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SO I did the search option and read up on some degreasing options. See its gonna rain this weekend so I want to take some time to detail the girl and get her back into shape here.
A part of this detailing will be cleaning all the nasty road grime. I hear simple green works pretty well. I have a can of .... "Citrus Engine Brite - Engine cleaner / detailer". Is this stuff bad news? The posts I read were somewhat unclear.
Thank ya thank ya
i use simple green to wash my bike.
it does the job well for most types of dirt, but i'm not so sure about grease. when i have to clean grimey oil off the rear rim (sometimes i get overzealous oiling up the chain), simple green doesn't work too well. i usually end up using the stuff they sell for cleaning mechanics' hands.
I cleaned my engine off with WD-40, same thing you use to clean chain lube off your wheel. It really worked suprisingly well on my engine, I have black engine and it took most of the crap off with a little srubbing. After I did that then I waxed the sidecovers so they shine real nice.
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it does the job well for most types of dirt, but i'm not so sure about grease. when i have to clean grimey oil off the rear rim (sometimes i get overzealous oiling up the chain), simple green doesn't work too well. i usually end up using the stuff they sell for cleaning mechanics' hands.
simple green kicks ass. hardly anyone knows what it is tho..
Citrus engine bright works well. I haven't used it on the bike, but on the VW I had (read as 30 y/o grease & grime) We just took the car to a manual car wash. Spray the can on everything, and let sit for like 5 minutes. Put in a buck and spray everything off. Got a heck of a lot of the stuff off with almost not hassle.
I think my bike has gone almost 3 years, and 24,000 miles without a bath. Just afraid of water I guess. :dunno:
My bike isn't afraid of water - it's soap that scares it.
That being said - 409 works pretty good for getting crud off the bike too.
Watch those degreasers around your chain. I have heard that some of them will swell the o-rings on the chain and cause the chain to fail. I think that has happened with prolonged contact.