I saw that I was on 1/2 a tank today, and I looked at my trip meter and it was reading over 90 miles! If this keeps up, I will have gotten closer to 180 miles on a tank instead of more like 120-130! I am being optimistic, but still...not overly so! The weather is great until Wednesday next week--the day I get to truly test my rain gear!
Since the mud issue yesterday, I went home last night, washed and waxed the bike. I'm not really a person who waxes a lot, and never really for the visual aspect. I only did it to protect the paint some. I swear it. I used regular Turtlewax paste. I even use it on the shield, and it makes rain bead like a mother. I am serious! What I didn't like is the way it clouded up on the grain of the dash, handlebar trim, etc. I'm never doing that again. I had to used a wet rag and then rub it dry right after that (sometimes multiple times) to get it off. Also, Turtle Wax likes to sink in where ever there's a crack or crevice and leave a mint green bit of hardening goo there. I had my Swiss Army knife out--the screwdriver and put the blade inside of the cloth and ran that into the trim crevices to get all the limegoo out. Not something I really want to repeat again, because it was a PITA. I have these detail wipes that I can use inbetween washings if there are spots that start looking really bad. Last time I washed the Roketa, I took it up the street to the car wash and just used the sprayer, but didn't pull the trigger so it was relatively low-pressure.
What do you use to clean bugs and goo off your plexi windshield??? The warning about "CAUTION: CLEAING WITH ALKALINE OR ACID CLEANER, GASOLINE OR SOLVENT WILL DAMAGE WINDSHIELD." and "USE NEUTRAL DETERGENT" kinda scares me. I'm even a little worried to use standard glass cleaner, a lot of which has ammonia, I think. That's the stuff that smells good in enclosed spaces and makes you really happy, right???
I don't really use water any longer, unless there are chunks of mud and even then, I'm careful to only soften and slide them off, stopping at that point.
ReplyDeleteI use Pledge furniture polish on everything, seat, body panels instruments and windshield too. I 'won' two cans of Honda polish at a rally and grab either that or the Pledge, whichever one is closer.