Pledge on windshields
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Pledge on windshields
Though it could be its own thread, due to how much it upset some people. That is the use of pledge to clean bugs off windshields. Pledge has been around longer than bugslide and such. I discovered it over 20 years ago on another harley forum, where it was common to use. Just like it was on this forum. I used it for about 65k miles on one windshield, and 70 on another. Still have those windshields Last couple years I have been playing with expensive stuff, cause I have to much money.
I used to carry this on trip, including Alaska, where I was using it every 100 miles for dust. The way it foams up, it might be wetter, so less likely to scratch, maybe
I don't use it on paint, but looks like lots of people do. I suppose before they sold waterless cleaners with pictures of bikes, people still cleaned there bikes
No it doesn't have a picture of bike on it. But have bought gallons of brake cleaner, as do must of us, and we don't use it on brakes.
Thread is from 2008, some of you might not have seen it.
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...indshield.html
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...indshield.html
They say kids don't read any more, they go to youtube
https://www.google.com/search?q=pled...ptQP0Ke6iAU_69
I used to carry this on trip, including Alaska, where I was using it every 100 miles for dust. The way it foams up, it might be wetter, so less likely to scratch, maybe
I don't use it on paint, but looks like lots of people do. I suppose before they sold waterless cleaners with pictures of bikes, people still cleaned there bikes
No it doesn't have a picture of bike on it. But have bought gallons of brake cleaner, as do must of us, and we don't use it on brakes.
Didn't realize there was another post on this..........
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/dyna-...-pledge-3.html
I also hear it really works well on the windshield
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/dyna-...-pledge-3.html
I also hear it really works well on the windshield
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...indshield.html
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...indshield.html
They say kids don't read any more, they go to youtube
https://www.google.com/search?q=pled...ptQP0Ke6iAU_69
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Pledge was very common. Lots of guys claimed it to be the best. Basically using it like a waterless detail in a can. I always used S100 Detail Wax. It's what my older brother and his friends all used.
In the Side by Side world, pledge is recommended too. It's actually in the owners manual. It helps reduce static cling. Dust doesn't stick as well.
There's tons of old threads about it around here.
In the Side by Side world, pledge is recommended too. It's actually in the owners manual. It helps reduce static cling. Dust doesn't stick as well.
There's tons of old threads about it around here.
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I know its common. Guy was hair on fire, looking at me like I took dump on the living room floor. Telling people I was ruining the detailing forum. I figured I would start this thread, to not muddy that one up.
What some new riders don't realize is, bug slide and such, is not that old. Don't know what the real old timers used. But I started using pledge after reading about on a harley forum. I just used it for windshields.
I hosed down a jap bike that had been sitting for years that i could not get out to wash, and didn't want sitting covered with dust, when OL walked by, wondering why I had so many bikes.
I found a bottle in the garage just tonight, cleaning on a rainy day. Hosed down my tourpack. It needs some attention, Will see how it looks in the sun. I may go back to it for windshields, and maybe fairing, It lathers up, and seems like a better wet clean than the spray stuff.
Nice thing about it, you can get it at the road at any grocery store and maybe even a connivence store.
What some new riders don't realize is, bug slide and such, is not that old. Don't know what the real old timers used. But I started using pledge after reading about on a harley forum. I just used it for windshields.
I hosed down a jap bike that had been sitting for years that i could not get out to wash, and didn't want sitting covered with dust, when OL walked by, wondering why I had so many bikes.
I found a bottle in the garage just tonight, cleaning on a rainy day. Hosed down my tourpack. It needs some attention, Will see how it looks in the sun. I may go back to it for windshields, and maybe fairing, It lathers up, and seems like a better wet clean than the spray stuff.
Nice thing about it, you can get it at the road at any grocery store and maybe even a connivence store.
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2 parts to this. One I always hated when peole say if you don't want to spend tons of money you shouldn't own a harley. I got my FLHR in my 20s, and went with out some stuff to have it. I didn't waste half my life, waiting to ride. Didn't wait until house paid off, and buy one in my 50s. Right wrong indifferent. Plus I know many people with vary modest incomes that rides harleys. Especially people that retired, Not everyone is buying a new harley, and dressed in harley crap head to toe.
Second part, kid, there were not always all these harley branded products in the boutiques. I am not terribly old, but I am older than bug slide. Not sure if I am older than waterless cleaners, but they certainly were not so prominent
Used to make fun of the people using them, just ride the bike. I have to admit, after years of negelect, I do use them alot of my fairing. Though I am wondering if I am doing more damage to the paint, and should just stick with water, and not all the time.
Two-b, can you damage paint, constantly cleaning? I always cleaning windshield after a ride. But lately have started giving fairing a quick wipe down.
Second part, kid, there were not always all these harley branded products in the boutiques. I am not terribly old, but I am older than bug slide. Not sure if I am older than waterless cleaners, but they certainly were not so prominent
Used to make fun of the people using them, just ride the bike. I have to admit, after years of negelect, I do use them alot of my fairing. Though I am wondering if I am doing more damage to the paint, and should just stick with water, and not all the time.
Two-b, can you damage paint, constantly cleaning? I always cleaning windshield after a ride. But lately have started giving fairing a quick wipe down.
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Blind Lemon Pledge was one of my favorite blues musicians.
Harking from the Montreal Delta he put Canadian Blues on the map.
R.L. Burnside said that everything he knew worth knowing he learned from BLP.
Harking from the Montreal Delta he put Canadian Blues on the map.
R.L. Burnside said that everything he knew worth knowing he learned from BLP.
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Lemon Pledge, I use that $hit on everything 
now just to ruffle a few feathers, I have found that F11 (That was given to me as I would never pay $50 for any kind of cleaner/wax) brings my wind shield to a whole other level of clarity.
now just to ruffle a few feathers, I have found that F11 (That was given to me as I would never pay $50 for any kind of cleaner/wax) brings my wind shield to a whole other level of clarity.
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Lovely to see the polite discourse....
And everyone has an opinion....most are wrong....
as for the pledge...Imma gonna give it a try. Maybe not. I'm happy with what I am using.
But I did go off to the know-it-all u-verse and looked up.
Seems that Pledge was used in the past. On a car detailing forum it talked about the different types of plastic back then and now.
But I am not one to knock anyone for what they use.
You do you....
Good Day~
And everyone has an opinion....most are wrong....
as for the pledge...Imma gonna give it a try. Maybe not. I'm happy with what I am using.
But I did go off to the know-it-all u-verse and looked up.
Seems that Pledge was used in the past. On a car detailing forum it talked about the different types of plastic back then and now.
But I am not one to knock anyone for what they use.
You do you....
Good Day~
