Wash day

It's been two weeks since it's last wash, so today was wash day for the little Honda CRF250L. Some before pics:

And then some after pics:

I polished those grubby marks off the radiator shrouds so it's back to white again. I still can't get this seat clean, I'll try some other cleans sometime and report back.

This is the seat currently (after the wash):

There's also some marks from my boots on the engine covers:

and this:

That's quite disappointing, but this has happened on most of my bikes. I actually used to cover them with duct tape on some of my ktm's to keep them scratch free. I might try that on these sometime.

Fuel consumption went to an all time high of 3.7l/100km with my license test and all the stop/starting that went that, so that should drop slightly over the next tank.

Those easily scratched plastics

A look at those plastics I was complaining about

The left front seems to be the worst. This is after a wash.

You can't really see clearly here but the seat has some dark marks which I'm struggling to remove as well.

A view of the right hand side, some dirty marks visible after a wash.

Right hand side isn't as bad as left hand side but still visible.

The whole left with some more marks on the plastics behind the frame.

I left the bike to dry and went to revisit the marks with some car polish. All the marks came off pretty easily, except the seat which seem to be hard to show clearly in the pics, I'll use a proper camera when I get a chance. I've never needed to polish the plastics to get them clean before, but at least I can get them clean, they were looking really bad.

Some after polish pics

The seats not entirely spotless, but I'm going to need some better pics to show my problem.

The much improved front left. That polish seems to do the trick!

The polished plastics behind the frame.

The seat - this one still isn't perfect and needs some work.

The right side. Looking much better.

Some polish seems to do the trick on these cheap plastics, I've followed the polish up with some wax so hopefully that'll help keep the polishing requirements down to a minimum for a few washes.