Cleaning Spokes - How Do You Do It?
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Cleaning Spokes - How Do You Do It?
My 01 Softail sat for nearly 2 years prior to my purchase. There's a lot of oxidation on the chrome and mothers seems to do a good job with a decent amount of elbow grease. Just polished up the front wheel hub on the outside and it looks like a new wheel.
The spokes however are very dull and feel somewhat gritty. There's a whole lot of spokes on the 21" wheel and I'm looking for an easier way to clean & protect. Mothers, with a lot, and I mean a lot of effort will somewhat clean the spokes.
Also, I'm running into problems cleaning the hub where the spokes meet the rim. What can I do here? How do you clean your rims? And what about the hub inside the wheel? It looks like it has never been cleaned.
We're the spokes shiny when new or somewhat dulled?
Help.
The spokes however are very dull and feel somewhat gritty. There's a whole lot of spokes on the 21" wheel and I'm looking for an easier way to clean & protect. Mothers, with a lot, and I mean a lot of effort will somewhat clean the spokes.
Also, I'm running into problems cleaning the hub where the spokes meet the rim. What can I do here? How do you clean your rims? And what about the hub inside the wheel? It looks like it has never been cleaned.
We're the spokes shiny when new or somewhat dulled?
Help.
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RE: Cleaning Spokes - How Do You Do It?
I've been messing with the same problem except my sporty sat for about 4 years!!! So far the best thing I have found is Nevr-Dull wadding. I polished a whole wheel (excluding the spokes, but INcluding the space between the spokes on the rim) in about, 20 mins. From 4 yrs of oxidation to mirror finish in 20 minutes. Also it leaves no residues in the little nooks and crannies.
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Ya i would like to know also mine are shiny for the most part but they feel like they have some burnt on brake dust or somthing that seems to come off if i scrape it with a hard edge like a knife or the similar but im not so sure im not just be scraping off the chrome and getting down to the raw metal of the spoke that would look good for 1 more washing and then rust to heck and i did that to a small section of one of my spokes and it is rusted on that area now so im thinking about getting new spokes laced in and im leaning for the twisted spoke i think those would look good if any of you have the twited spokes on your rides post them up i would love to see them on a wheel Thanks
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RE: Cleaning Spokes - How Do You Do It?
when i got my used sportster, the back wheel was spokes and the bike had been sittin for 10+? years. never dull seemed to work pretty good until i found out that i had two broke spokes the next month. then i went down to the harley store and got a new set of spokes and re laced the wheel turned out pretty nice i thought. i usually use a old sock to polish in between the spoke, nipple rim area when and if i do clean the wheel. usually co incides with the periodic chain clean and lube. lookin to replace the mag wheel on the front with the original spoke wheel. the guy i bought the bike on had a lot of extra parts he forgot to tell me he had layin around, so when i get it, ill relace that one too!
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