I finally got around to trying the lemon pledge for a bike detailer. The stuff works great, shines the bike up real nice including the inner fairing, which never looked that good when new. The stuff even seems to repel dust somewhat, which on a black bike is a real plus.

 

huh?

u did what?

on where?

spray on rag first?

this is new to me. do tell

 

Just spray it on like any old bike detailer and wipe it off, give it a try you'll be impressed!

 

I have been using that stuff for years and it works great!!!!! Anyone who is unsure try a little on your caryou'll see that it works so wellyou will use it on your bike.[sm=biker2.gif]

 

I used it on my vette many years ago, gave one heck of a shine.

 

Sorry for the long post, but I thought that if you use pledge or are contemplating using it, you might like to read this first. Personally, I have been using Protect-All since the early 80's. Great stuff, IMHO.

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Road Rider - September 1988
PRODUCT REPORT
Champions Choice
PROTECT ALL
We tend to get suspicious when a new product comes to market with a huge amount of
hype and wild claims about how wonderful it is. Usually the stuff that yells the most about how
magnificent it is, offers the least substance or value to the buyer.
So when Adam Huber spent a half-hour on the phone telling us how amazing his Protect
All spray cleaner was, we didn’t get very excited about it. He said he’d send a box of the stuff.
We said okay. He said we were going to be favorably impressed, just like everyone else who
had used the stuff. We said sure, fine. He said the only thing he’d appreciate us not doing was
comparing his product with Lemon Pledge. That comparison, he said, was invalid; he went on
to ask us not to associate his wonderful product with furniture polish.
That’s why the first thing we did when we received the test samples of Protect All was
run a series of direct comparisons with Pledge. What the heck. A challenge is a challenge,
right?
Protect All is a petroleum-based cleaner/waxer in a spray can. According to Huber, and
the label on the can, it cleans dirt and oil, treats vinyl and rubber, waxes paint, and polishes
chrome. The only thing it doesn’t claim to do is peel potatoes or cure athlete’s feet.
So we dug out a couple of dirty bikes and a filthy car hood and went to work to see how
good this “miracle goop” really was.
It’s quite good, as a matter of fact.
The results of our Protect All/ Pledge shoot-out were interesting. We tried both products
side by side on painted metal, ABS plastic, fiberglass, chrome, rubber, vinyl, and polycarbonate
face shields. Both products spray out of the can as a milky white mist; both look similar in
application; both yield fairly identical immediate results; and both smell the same—though the
Lemon Pledge smells detectably more lemony than the Protect All. Beyond that Huber is right:
there really is no comparison.
On painted metal the Protect All gives a richer, deeper gloss than Pledge, implying a
higher wax content. Both agents cause water beading initially, but two days later the Pledge
treated area had virtually no remaining beading effect; the Protect All treated area was still
beading noticeably when sprayed with a fine spray or hit with a full shot from the garden hose.
On chrome the Protect All buffs down to a slick, almost slippery, feeling. The Pledge will
buff down, but the cloth tends to “stick” slightly as you rub the Pledge-treated surface. On all
types of plastic the Protect All cleans very thoroughly and polishes out to a nice luster. The
Pledge shine things up but leave a faint film that has the colored petroleum highlights that you
see on an oil slick when the light is just right. This residue also tends to attract dust quickly.
The Protect All is visibly more static-free. Just for kicks we threw handfuls of cat sand on the
two surfaces. The Pledge side wiped clean, but left tiny abrasion marks behind that dulled the
shine a bit. Most of the dust slid right off the Protect All side; the amount that stuck wiped
clean, returning the painted surface to its original luster.
The final blow to the Pledge came when we called the Johnson Wax people. They told
us that they categorically would not recommend Lemon Pledge for any external, outdoor surfaces.
It is furniture polish, they said. It works wonderfully on wood furniture, but they would
not be responsible for any long-term effects it would

 

Try brite-max spray detailer. You'll never use anything else after that. Read the review on webbikeworld.com
EGK

 

Pledge works great. Cost is good and reguardless what the test above says, it holds up to daily riding.

 

Pledge shines good but dust sticks to it. Petrol base.

 

I have used nothing but pledge for the last few years, no white residue left behind, great on plexi, and I have found that it attracts less dust than most detail sprays I have tried.