Fuggin bugs!!
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Much easier to wipe bugs off waxed paint...Thanks for the encouragement guys...I dont think i'll wax anymore unless I am headed for a photo-shoot ride...
I'll just ride the paint off the thing
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Once a month McGuires 3 step -- 1hr
After Every ride -- Quick Spray Wax -- 10min
Step 1. Use kerosene or disel fuel to clean.
Step 2. Use a tooth brush etc.
Step 3. Lube with an o-ring safe chain lube.
I know what you are talking about. Just got finished cleaning up mine from a ride Monday night. Bugs worse this year and I think the Silverstar bulb is the reason, much brighter. As long as I'm not cleaning deer off the front end I can cope with it.
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Projekt
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Regular old dish soapy water and a sponge works great, but I have flat black paint (no waxing). Sunset is the worst time for airborne insects around here (sarajevo) just like everywhere else. I just live with it and scrub my gear and bike regularly without too much fuss. Road across northern Croatia one evening and had to stop every half hour to clean my shield and headlamp.
just use some hydrogen peroxide and a microfiber cloth, bugs come right off man, TRUST ME i have the same problem up here in Erie,PA cause its so muggy this time of year bugs are EVERYWHERE. I'm just not lookin forward to when the junebugs come out. Those lil F*CKERS are like protein BULLETS
they get into the air intake,the lights,up on the forks,you cant win...Much easier to wipe bugs off waxed paint...Thanks for the encouragement guys...I dont think i'll wax anymore unless I am headed for a photo-shoot ride...
I'll just ride the paint off the thing
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On one night ride of mine I hit what I'm guessing was a moth orgy......whatever they were it was like being on the losing end of a paintball war, when your the last guy facing the whole infantry.Well...just washed and waxed the bike yesterday...all gone to sh*t tonight!!
I took the unwise decision to ride in the dark and I was molested by an army of bugs. My headlamps could pierce through the dark well enough...but I couldnt pierce through the thick blanket of bugs
End result - the bike's front end looks like a hairy arse - totally covered in bug-corpse-cream and tiny wings. Lil fuggers are everywhere. I am sure the engine air intake (RAM air intakes) are clogged by these winged missiles
I cleaned up as much as I could in the dark...have to assess the damage tomorrow and make an insurance claim for a totalled bike...yeah...thats how bad it is.
Well - so much for the bike. I look down at my mesh jacket and it is not a mesh jacket anymore. It is a fur coat full of bugsy families all dead together with their wings pointing north. BASTIDS!!
My helmet is SCREWED...all the air intakes are bugged and no amount of late-night debugging seems to help. I think there are bugs all through the air-path...need to dismantle the whole thing to look closer.
WTF - no more night-rides??
This is BS...cant ride when it rains...cant ride in the night...when it rains the bugs arent out in the night...but I cant ride...when it is dry the fuggin bugs head out to play "quidditch" and screw up my ride.
Sorry for the rant - I am now the official sponsor of team BAYGON!!
Or you could compare it to a grape storm......or maybe a drive by fruiting
Just got back from my first night ride, what a BEAUTIFUL night and broke in my new Firstgear leather jacket. I DID however get smacked by what felt like a Pteradactyl in the neck so bad that when we stopped and went into McDonald's my buddy died laughing when he saw I had guts splattered all the way up my cheek inside my Shoei! Ah, to live in the South....
Absolutely! Keep it waxed! I was covered when I got home tonight. I could hardly see through my face shield and it got cleaned 3 times during our ride. My jacket and pants are covered as well as the bike of course. Just part of the deal!!!Much easier to wipe bugs off waxed paint...Thanks for the encouragement guys...I dont think i'll wax anymore unless I am headed for a photo-shoot ride...
I'll just ride the paint off the thing
You want to play you have to pay!!! With elbow grease.
Ewwww... Now that would suckmaybe it was one of these?
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