• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Bike cleaner for dirt bike

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ks9mm

Husqvarna
AA Class
OK....yes, I know its a dirt bike.. and there is sort of charm in having your bike all muddy and all.. but I like my bikes clean :)

so far I used S100 and Suzuki bike cleaner (it works awesome),

so what do you guys use to get all that mud of your bike?
 
I like to use a dirt scraper & a strong stream of water to remove excess. I like the Suzuki wash, dilute it half & half with water. Spray motor down & let it simmer, start with the top & scrub everything with a brush. One section at a time hosing off as I go. Come back to the motor & spray again with soap. Brushing everything my little brush can hit. Wheels last thing I wash. I always remove my air filter & use the air box cover. Use the old leaf blower to remove water from all the cracks & crevasses.
 
i was an S100 fan for a while but it gets too expensive...

50/50 Simple Green/water mix in a spray bottle, good spray nozzle on a regular garden hose (i don't powerwash anymore), spray off the heavy stuff, spray either half or 1/4 of the bike down with the Simple Green/water mix, good paintbrush to 'brush' it all in, let sit for maybe a min or two, never more, blast off with the hose... continue on. always do this to a cool bike out direct sunlight or do smaller sections if in the sun. you don't want the SG mix sitting long or drying on.

works awesome. paint brush is key.
 
+1 for Simple Green, however I prefer the purple Simple Green over the normal stuff....
Do NOT let that stuff sit long or dry tho.
 
Krud Kutter works well, I get it at Lowes for $24/gal. Simple Green is almost as good for a fraction of the cost. I use a electric pressure washer then WD-40 all the critical places afterwords.
 
ALLTRQ said:
CT18 is the poison of choice here in Aus. I get the feeling it may be quite similar to your simple green.
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+ One for CT18 in Aus!
THE best bike/car/truck wash around.:thumbsup:
I bought a cheap Hills mini pump-up sprayer from Big W to apply it.

When the bike is all clean and dry, I spray it in silicone tyre shine, motor, plastics, up under the guards etc. (Not where you grip the bike with your legs or brakes obviously)
It helps stop the next lot of dirt sticking & makes washing off a heap easier.
My bike has 119 hrs on it now, almost all off-road, it's covered in scratches in this pic, but is still clean & shiny.


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Rick said:
Shout, the same stuff that removes stains from your riding gear. Shout has a neutral pH which will not streak aluminum. works really well on keeping your engine cases looking fresh and clean.........put in a spray bottle and spray away, not need to mix.
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x2 on Shout, the stain lifter. stuff is amazing. we buy it by the 4 gallon case at Costco, and dilute it 75/25 shout/water in a weed sprayer.
 
i use liquid laundry detergent and a scrubbing brush together with the pressure cleaner after the clean up spray with lanotec
 
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