Cleaning...

[ianrauk]

You will need "expensive stuff" from the Specialist suppliers listed below.

Bucket of water from Tap.
Washing Up liquid from Kitchen.
Rag from Old T-shirt.
Brush from Old Toothbrush in Bathroom.
Cleaning machine from Elbow Grease.

add in a can of Mr Sheen for the finish and it's spot on.

 

[Gixxerman]

I'm not sure as my Butler cleans mine. I will get my gamekeeper to ask him what he uses.

 

[Globalti]

Muc-off at £24 for 5 litres? Rip-off more like! I can get 5 litres of car shampoo for around a fiver.

 

[bpsmith]

When I wash my car, the shampoo I use gets the paint work, glass and plastics looking spotless. I can use shampoo to get the wheels clean too.

Strangely enough, the wheels never come up as clean as when I use a proper wheel cleaning product. That’s where the decision on what products to use comes in.

Do you want every part of the bike to be clean or just the main parts that give the overall effect of the whole bike being spotless?

 

[Heltor Chasca]

There are a lot of you on here with butlers. I need to work harder.

Given that there is salt in washing up liquid, why is this a popular cleaner?

(Asking for the lbs who makes a fortune from releasing ceased seat posts)

 

[Vantage]

Given that there is salt in washing up liquid, why is this a popular cleaner?

I wondered about this one myself for a while and having used it for years on my own bikes brought it up on the CTC forum.
Brucey, that Sheldon Brownish god of knowledge quickly debunked it. There is salt in washing up liquid, but the amount is so miniscule you'd need a microscope cable of seeing atoms to spot it. No where near enough to even remotely cause damage to a bike. Seized seatpost are a reaction to lack of grease and mainainence.

 

[Drago]

When I wash my car, the shampoo I use gets the paint work, glass and plastics looking spotless. I can use shampoo to get the wheels clean too.

Is there a performance difference between VO5 and Head and Shoulders?

 

[Vantage]

Is there a performance difference between VO5 and Head and Shoulders?

I use Dove personally. It keeps my tyres shiny and healthy and adds volume.

 

[Salty seadog]

VO5? Head and Shoulders?

Get with the programme ...
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Too late for me, my hair has been leaving me since my early twenties and my bikes bald too.

 

[screenman]

There are a lot of you on here with butlers. I need to work harder.

Given that there is salt in washing up liquid, why is this a popular cleaner?

(Asking for the lbs who makes a fortune from releasing ceased seat posts)

So has most bike cleaners.

 

[classic33]

I use Dove personally. It keeps my tyres shiny and healthy and adds volume.

Air works a lot better, for adding volume to the tyres.

 

[C R]

Given that there is salt in washing up liquid, why is this a popular cleaner?

Salt is used to change the ionic strength of the solution (how many free electric charges there are) so that everything remains in solution and doesn't drop to the bottom. The amount used is tiny for the volume you use, so will have no effect on the bike.

 

[bpsmith]

Is there a performance difference between VO5 and Head and Shoulders?

The question should actually be is there a difference between Washing Up Liquid and VO5/Head and Shoulders.

 

[bpsmith]

As an impoverished bedsit dwelling youth I conducted research into this. My conclusion was that Fairy Liquid was an effective, if rather substandard, substitute for shower gel.

I am not surprised.

My original point about a product achieving a purpose to a lower level, but not to the same high standard as the product designed for the task, therefore still stands.

Now somewhat validated by your detailed research.

 

[Profpointy]

As an impoverished bedsit dwelling youth I conducted research into this. My conclusion was that Fairy Liquid was an effective, if rather substandard, substitute for shower gel.

It stings your eyes considerable worse as well