Hi all, new member, with some good advice on the above. History. Collect brand new bike on Friday, pride and joy, ride it home. Weather shitty so wait till Saturday for a cruise, brilliant, big smile all over face. Back home, park bike in garage. Pick up microfibre cloth for a last clean before drinktime. Cloth falls from hand, hits hot exhaust and immediately welds to chrome. HORROR, ONE DAY OLD AND SCARRED FOR LIFE!
Not so my friend. Get 100 per cent cotton cloth and good quality chrome cleaner and put on standby. Start engine and run for 15 - 20 minutes till the **** loses it's solid adhesive quality. Then rub cleaner on little patches at a time, it will come off, however, remember to use different parts of cloth each time, as the stuff solidifies when removed and will scratch your treasured shiny surface. Spiralmind.

 

Chrome Cleaner works well, but you have to rub hard. I burnt part of a glove on my Z1000 header while changing the oil filter and chrome polish took it off with a bit of work.

 

Run the bike until the exhaust is just hot to the touch, spray some oven cleaner into a glass bowl (way away from bike... it'll eat paint!) take a small brush or Q-tip and apply the cleaner to the spot you need to remove, let it sit until the pipe cools enough to touch it easily (about 5 min.) wipe off with a cotton cloth.......done!

 

Try Goo be Gone and a rag worked great for me

 

I did the same thing once. I used EZ off Oven Cleaner. Let it soak for a while and don't get any on your paint. Steel wool will remove marks, but it will wear away chrome.

 

+1 with the penny. I held it in my fingers so I could control the pressure and I just scraped off melted plastic from cold pipes. I also used steel wool, very light pressure, and some chrome polish. It took about 30 mins but it all came off using very light pressure.

 

Use a pre 1982 penny which is all copper & won't scratch.