How do you wash/clean your bagger?
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2010
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I take the bags off and wash it while its up on the J&S lift. Makes cleaning the whitewalls/wheels easier. Then I dry it using my metroblaster and a microfiber. The metroblaster is money well spent. Leafblowers scare me cause I also use mine as a vacuum to mulch leaves and stuff and I've had dirt and debris fly out the end at 180mph. The metroblaster only fires out filtered air but at a cost.
Last edited by cruzmisl; Aug 31, 2011 at 09:14 PM.
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Joined: Mar 2008
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From: Maryland
Wash mine than dry with micro fiber polish wheels and other chrome a little at a time pick an area and polish about a half hours time every other day task isnt overwhelming and gives me a reason to relax in the garage and wind down from the day
Road Warrior
Joined: Oct 2008
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From: Rosamond, Cali
You might be more thorough than me... I wash mine every 1 to 2 weeks. Dish soap in a bucket of warm/hot water. I dry the bike with an AirBlaster (avoids scratching the paint, and less strenuous than a chamois). It gets waxed a couple times a year (I park in the garage). As for the engine, I've never renewed it with S100, or anything else. (This sounds like a time-consuming exercise). Even this simple regimen, and people comment how clean it is. Maybe you're doing too much, too often. I might suggest doing a general cleaning every week or two, and do a 'major' clean once or twice a year. Then again, if you're the type that has to have it spotless all the time, detailed to the nth degree...you're stuck doing a lot of work frequently.
I spend an hour a week, and that includes washing, drying, and hitting the leather/vinyl with mink oil.
Alan
I spend an hour a week, and that includes washing, drying, and hitting the leather/vinyl with mink oil.
Alan
Last edited by AlanStansbery; Sep 5, 2011 at 04:21 PM.
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From: Wisconsin
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From: Ontario, Canada
when cooled off and about every 2 weeks or so, rinse with cold water, wet with s100 and rinse off, blow dry with my bike blaster or cycle blaster, micro fibre, clean windshield 20-30 minutes and add remove rear bags, wax and clean whitewalls when time is available add 20 more minutes. I windex bugs in between washings to keep bike clean "looking"