Melted microfiber on chrome
Stage I
Joined: Apr 2010
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microfibre welded to hot chromium
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.
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.
Road Master
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Sheridan, AR
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!
Road Captain
Joined: May 2011
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From: New England
Hah, you folks are so out to lunch on this. Well except for one very smart individual that chose the penny any way. When the pipes cool off and the towel hardens you can use a penny or a nickel in a pair of vice grips and it will take the towel right the pipe. You would really have to go nuts to hurt the chrome on the pipes because the copper or nickel is very soft in comparison to the chrome. They won't scratch, you don't have to worry about any overspray hitting paint or some other area that really doesn't like things like oven cleaner and there is very little effort required.
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From: Danbury CT
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