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Things You Should Never Use On Or Do To Your Bike.

Never ride more than 15 miles between beers.

cedarbrook63 said:
Then that would indicate being Lactose Intolerant I suppose :s
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Never ride more than 15 miles between beers! :D

Never post the same thing twice with the wrong quote. Doh
 
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NO Dont use it....maybe on chrome not on paint !

Use Meguiers #26 yellow high tech wax on your paint and chrome best wax I ever used for clear coat show bikes and cars paint !
 
NEVER use Easy Off Oven Cleaner on your pipes! It may look great now but the stuff "keeps on ticking" and working the chrome till months later start to bubble from the inside out. :newsmile040:
 
I used easy off on my pipes 3 years ago to remove some rain-suit residue, and I have not had anything"bubble" under my chrome yet! Maybe you didnt get it all off.
 
Pledge is a house hold product not for your ride .Spend a few bucks an get a good detail spay it will be better in the long run. :bigsmiley15:
 
tumma said:
Pledge is a house hold product not for your ride .Spend a few bucks an get a good detail spay it will be better in the long run. :bigsmiley15:
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You're missing out on a good thing. I have been using Pledge on my bikes for over 30 years and it works very well.
 
Bengal88 said:
NEVER use Easy Off Oven Cleaner on your pipes! It may look great now but the stuff "keeps on ticking" and working the chrome till months later start to bubble from the inside out. :newsmile040:
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What's in "Easy Off":

What's Inside: Foamalicious, Vaporlicious Easy-Off Oven Cleaner

The butane, sodium hydroxide, monoethanolimine and diethanolamine I would not worry about so much. Aside from butane, they are all "basic" (high pH) and would not cause as much corrosive issues with metal, unlike an acid and anything with iron. They all will feel "soapy" if you get them on your skin, well, because they are turning the fats in you skin into soap.

Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether: pay attention to this one. Again as a component of brake fluid and we all know that can be nasty stuff. Also, remember that ethylene glycol is used in engine coolant, so this stuff is similar (sweet taste, lowers boiling points other solvents, viscous), but it is in relatively small amounts compared to the other constituents of the can.

Sometimes you have to use what you need to, but be sure to use plenty of water afterwards. What I would suggest is rinsing the area with water, then misting some 50/50 vineagar and water from a spritzer bottle and then more water. The acid will cancel all the basic stuff and it will help break up the glycol as a rinse agent. My chemistry isn't that strong to know the reactions involved, but if somthing is going to potentially "de-bond" chome plating, it needs to attack the metal underneath (at typical "room" temperatures that we live in). If Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether gets to the iron under the chrome through micro scratches OR it is left on when the pipe gets really hot: problem.
 
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