Just applied and appreciate how easy and slick surface is.
Recommended by someone on this site, don't know who. Thought others might like it.

 

After using a "clay bar" and a spray of "detailer" and a soft terry cloth towel to buff the painted surfaces, the surfaces of my vehicles are slippery like glass. That's my twice a year treatment. No "magic" spray coatings just good old fashioned, tried and true methods for me.

 

Looks awesome. I put a different brand ceramic on my truck before winter and in the spring it was still beading water. Thats after salt and that crap they use up north here in Michigan.

 

Looks slick as a puppy's dick

 

Clean paint and Ceramic or Si02 coatings work wonders, I mean like a small miracle...well a really small miracle...

 

Claying and a soft terry cloth towel. Wow, ok, if your happy with it thats all that matters.
If you clay it is best practice to machine polish after. Claying can/will mar the paint. All claying does is remove any contaminants that are stuck to the paint. Thats it, nothing more.

I dont use spray coatings, just true ceramic coatings. Ive applied them to a lot of vehicles for customers. They are not "Magic', they are the real deal

 

WTF? LOL Sir, you just 'aint right...lol

 

FYI...."claying" will not harm a clear coated vehicles surface....IF....done properly, ie: working small areas at a time AND using plenty of lubricating spray or detailing spray as you clay.

 

I just bought some of that. We'll see how it works...

 

Clay is abrasive. If your claying,then that means you used the baggie test to see if you needed to clay correct? So, when you clay you pick up contaminants, those contaminants get rubbed on the paint, unless you kneed the clay after every pass, which nobody does.

One of the most respected detailers in the world, Mike Phillips, recommends machine polishing after using clay. He has worked for McGuires and Autogeek. Ive always followed this.
Claying doesnt hurt the paint but it can/will mar it.
I do 30-40 cars a year, just a side gig, and if I use the baggie test and need to clay or use a clay mitt, I always polish afterwards.
Do what you want, your bike.