Salt on Roads
Tourer
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 385
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From: Ontario Canada
After the salt is put down on the roadway, traffic begins pulverizingit. Days (weeks if you don't get significant rain) after it's laid down you can see that stuff swirling in the air like smoke as vehicles pass. Anywhere air can enter, so can the salt powder. A wash/rinse just doesn't get it all out. At worst you will wet down and activate some of the salt dust hidden everywhere - like the guy who found it corroding the interior of his floorboards. You can easily get if off the visible parts but you'd have to almost dismantle the bike to ensure it's out of everywhere it likes to collect. If you trade every few years, it becomes someone else's problem.
Once the salt hits our roads, I put the bike away until they're clear again.
Once the salt hits our roads, I put the bike away until they're clear again.
The invisible salt is what gets you, it gets into the electronics and connections where you can't clean it out, as well as seams and joints, and eats everything the first time it sees moisture.
Cruiser
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 212
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From: Texas (DFW Area)
So my bike is more for go then show... But I stopped by the HD shop here in Germany to see about some fork oil and he says that he can get most of the salt damage off of my engine casings. Of course I asked how? He said it was a trade secret...is this guy full of it? Or am I missing something?
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From: Ontario, Canada
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Last edited by Wally; Mar 25, 2013 at 03:33 PM.
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