Just a note - S-100 isn't soap.

 

S-100 is a sealant....you put it on after you wash and dry. Puts a shiny gloss on things.

I get old oil residue with spray cans of carb cleaner or engine degreaser...rinse well, then you can hit it with the S-100....or if you get a chance to pickup PigSpit...try that. You'll find it lasts longer on the engine that S-100...don't have to do it as many times per year.

 

Tide Liquid laundry detergent is a good degreaser also. I even use it to wash out gas tanks. Removes every molecule of gas and makes it safe to weld. It does a pretty fair job on oil stains in the garage and driveway if ya brush it in good.

 

You get S-100 cleaner and S-100 engine brightener.

I use silicone spray as an engine brightener.

 

Well I'll be.....
never seen their cleaner. Only seen their "brightener".

Holy crap just looked at the price, 11 bucks! You can pick an engine degreaser/degunker for 3 fifty in most auto shops.

 

Not S-100 Total Cycle Cleaner. It's a cleaner.

 

Yeah prior reply by 1004Iron got that squared. Most of us are just used to the S100 "brightener"...dunno if the S100 cleaner is newer or just not popular. And the OP didn't state which one he used.

 

some of the suggestions on here are suspect at best.

S-100 not a cleaner? I guess the bottle is labeled wrong.

Brake Cleaner? I suppose it could work, but that crap is caustic as hell. It cleans a new brake rotor of its rust inhibiter. It also usually leaves a white residue behind, especially on black crinkle paint. Maybe you could use an electronics cleaner that is marked no residue.

Don't use Castrol Super Clean....that crap will take anything that isn't chromed and eat it to a dull lustre and break down every piece of rubber it touches. Don't get me wrong, I love the stuff, but I gotta know where its going to use it. I once had a harmonic balancer come unglued from its elastomer because I was trying to get rid of belt squeal from some grease I had dropped on a serpentine belt. Didn't take all that much.

I've tested a lot of stuff to make this whole bike cleaning thing easy and I haven't found much that cleans as well as S-100 cleaner. However...it can leave a film like no other that needs to be polished off of everything, even if you flush the crap out of the surface you're cleaning.

I recently decided to try a good concentration of Simple Green after having some excellent success cleaning and detailing a corvette engine compartment. I've used it before with mixed results. But as long as there's not a lot of oil and gunk build up, its easy to apply of course and letting it set a little too long doesn't punish you too bad. That being said, its kinda weak so I save it for times when the bike isn't too particularly dirty.

When I changed my oil on my RK, I poured oil all over that thing the first time I did it. Just couldn't figure out some of the things I needed to make a clean change. I sprayed the hell out of that oil filter area with S-100, then sat there and flushed it for what seemed like an eternity. Came out great.

The real piece of information you're looking for is how to get that oil filter out of there without dripping oil all over the place.

I went to the kitchen. Got three, 1 foot lengths of aluminum foil, layered them and folded the edges so as to make a stiff, malleable sheet of foil. I rolled it a bit to get one end in the shape of the filter and slid it over the filter. Then I opened it up as best I could to allow it to funnel any oil coming out of the filter and filter mount into my oil drain pan. As I take filter out, (filter already loose before applying foil) everything comes out in one piece, voila. not a drop.

hope this helps.

 

Oh, it's not new . . . S100 Total Cycle Cleaner has been around for a lonnngggg time. Lots of folks use it. I just assumed that's the product he was talking about since the thread was called "Using S100 to clear your bike" . . . LOL.

I see your post above now, by the way. It's not cheap stuff. But, it's pretty awesome.

 

S-100 isn't soap........ it's people, it's PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!


Sorry, it just popped into my head.


I use the S-100 cleaner a couple times a year, as stated on the bottle make sure to rinse thoroughly, even the driveway. First time I used it, there was an outline left on the driveway.