Tru_Shine
New member
This bike was my first full detail in the motorcycle category. My client wanted it to look brand new, so I striped this bad boy down and got into the nitty and the gritty.
The bike came to me looking pretty good to the naked eye. But taking a closer look at things you could tell it needed some TLC.
Tools:
5gal bucket w/ grit guard
EZ detail brush, small and large
Lowes grout sponge
ONR clay lube
Automagic Red Claybar
Little tooth brush
Griots Garage 3" orbital
Harbor Freight Rotary w/ 3" BP
LC Orange,White,Green 3" pads
HD UNO
Megs One step leather care
White Diamond aluminum Polish
MEGS 105/205
Xenon Dual Swirl Finder light
BlackFire Wet Diamond
Dodo Juice Super Natural
OPT opti-seal (on the wheels)
Process:
I removed most of the body panels and the seats so I could get into all the tight places. I used my new Troybilt pressure washer to knock off all the bad stuff and used my EZ detail brushes to get in all the tight spots. I let some WD-40 soak on the chain and sprocket for a little bit to soak in and eat at all the clumped up grease. after lots of scrubbing I went back over with some degreaser to get all of the WD-40 off. I used the 1 bucket method w/ grit guard and the lowes Grout sponge with some RainX Wash and wax that was laying arround. After the good thorough wash and degrease I clay bared it With the Red automagic clay using the diluted ratio of ONR.
So it came to me like this
and your thinking wow thats a clean bike huh? just wait!
To this!
After the wash I pulled it in and clayed it
Now the real surface is revealed!
I wet sanded the scratches with 2000 grit paper and followed it up with some 4000 on my DA backing plate with the interface foam pad. I tried somthing new with my Griot's 3" Orbital. I usually use my Pneumatic Orbital for wetsanding. but I wanted to know if it would work with the Griots orbital, and it worked AMAZINGLY
I tried out the HD UNO for the first time on this bike. I liked it, It was nice just changing out only the pads. After a few passes with the orange just pop on the green pad do a few passes with it then pop on the White finishing pad and wipe off. Thats alot better then compounding then wipe, change pad, polish then wipe, and change pads and finish down, wipe and then check it. BUT.......I wasn't happy with the final finish after all that. so I would go back and correct it with M105 and M205. I also had to pull out the Rotary for some of those sand scratchs and UNO let me down on those too. So I am just going to stick with the Meg Twins.
Then after everything was polished down I applied a coat of BFWD with the griots 3" orbital w/ LC Blue pad
While that was curing, I polished out the muffler and all the aluminum pegs and brackets using White diamond polish.
After all that, I removed the BFWD and applied a thin coat of DoDo Juice SuperNatural.
To be Continued..........
The bike came to me looking pretty good to the naked eye. But taking a closer look at things you could tell it needed some TLC.
Tools:
5gal bucket w/ grit guard
EZ detail brush, small and large
Lowes grout sponge
ONR clay lube
Automagic Red Claybar
Little tooth brush
Griots Garage 3" orbital
Harbor Freight Rotary w/ 3" BP
LC Orange,White,Green 3" pads
HD UNO
Megs One step leather care
White Diamond aluminum Polish
MEGS 105/205
Xenon Dual Swirl Finder light
BlackFire Wet Diamond
Dodo Juice Super Natural
OPT opti-seal (on the wheels)
Process:
I removed most of the body panels and the seats so I could get into all the tight places. I used my new Troybilt pressure washer to knock off all the bad stuff and used my EZ detail brushes to get in all the tight spots. I let some WD-40 soak on the chain and sprocket for a little bit to soak in and eat at all the clumped up grease. after lots of scrubbing I went back over with some degreaser to get all of the WD-40 off. I used the 1 bucket method w/ grit guard and the lowes Grout sponge with some RainX Wash and wax that was laying arround. After the good thorough wash and degrease I clay bared it With the Red automagic clay using the diluted ratio of ONR.
So it came to me like this
and your thinking wow thats a clean bike huh? just wait!
To this!
After the wash I pulled it in and clayed it
Now the real surface is revealed!
I wet sanded the scratches with 2000 grit paper and followed it up with some 4000 on my DA backing plate with the interface foam pad. I tried somthing new with my Griot's 3" Orbital. I usually use my Pneumatic Orbital for wetsanding. but I wanted to know if it would work with the Griots orbital, and it worked AMAZINGLY
I tried out the HD UNO for the first time on this bike. I liked it, It was nice just changing out only the pads. After a few passes with the orange just pop on the green pad do a few passes with it then pop on the White finishing pad and wipe off. Thats alot better then compounding then wipe, change pad, polish then wipe, and change pads and finish down, wipe and then check it. BUT.......I wasn't happy with the final finish after all that. so I would go back and correct it with M105 and M205. I also had to pull out the Rotary for some of those sand scratchs and UNO let me down on those too. So I am just going to stick with the Meg Twins.
Then after everything was polished down I applied a coat of BFWD with the griots 3" orbital w/ LC Blue pad
While that was curing, I polished out the muffler and all the aluminum pegs and brackets using White diamond polish.
After all that, I removed the BFWD and applied a thin coat of DoDo Juice SuperNatural.
To be Continued..........
