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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:41 pm    Post subject: Blow or Drip Dry? Reply with quote

On the rare occasions that I wash my bikes with a pressure washer, I like to help dry it out a bit sharpish, by using a garden leaf blower it get in those hard to reach places.

Never really given it much thought but forgot to do it for a couple of hours after washing, so the bike and ground looked dry but I was amazed at how much water blew out from hidden areas..... A good couple of pints that would have just sat there corroding the metalwork whilst the bike was garaged.

Anyone else here do the same thing?

I know a quick hoon would dry it out as well but that's not really an option when the roads a salty of course. Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

careful of radiator fins with jet washers!! Never thought of a leaf blower but good shout (I don't own one... perhaps if lidl do one on a Thursday special I might get one)
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Iirc the kawasaki manual says you should let the bike run and let the heat from the engine dry out all the nooks and crannies. That's my usual trick anyway.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I blow the water away with a Dog blower/dryer. The sort they use on poodles and showdogs. Variable speed and heat. Cost £70. They sell exactly the same one for bikes for £120
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use an airline off my compressor while running the bike.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jet wash?....BLOODY JETWASH???? ...get thy hands in thur lad and give all the nook and crannies a damn good finger blasting ....thats tha way thy cleans thy steed, obviously beware with using jet washes and air lines to blow out any standing water as they are very capable of also removing grease from bearings ( but of course we all knew that anyway didnt we)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Clean your bike!!

Cooler to have dirty GS (or get some of that clip on mud)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nuclear Red wrote:
Clean your bike!!

Cooler to have dirty GS (or get some of that clip on mud)


I did say "Rare occasions that I wash them" Wink

Good point on the pressure washer Pete and that is why I use a much lower pressure small Karcher one on the bikes..... My big Nilfisk pressure washer would melt a Suzuki engine casing like a thermal lance Laughing
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