Desided to clean my wheels

[octoberboy]

Last Sunday wasn't such a nice day in the northeast. Desided good day to do a little cleaning. Got to Lowe's when it opened and picked up a few supplies: Heavy duty ecologically friendly cleaner. An aluminum, chrome and stainless steel cleaner polisher. 00 grade steel wool rated pads.

 

Got home, made some coffee, got some tunes going in the garage, parked my rump on the floor and got at it.

 

Front wheel

Picture 1 - Before

Picture 2 - After heavy duty cleaning

Picture 3 - After maybe 10 minutes of aluminum cleaner and scrubbing

 

Pics 4 and 5 - Worked on front right fork too.

 

Front wheel (rims only) + front right fork = 4 hours

 

It ain't new but pretty happy with results. Even looks faster.

 

Me thinks me needs a few more rainy days though.

[chabicheka]

[GolfVenture]

"Front wheel (rims only) + front right fork = 4 hours"

 

After you get all done is there some product one can use to like spray on and hose off on a regular basis to keep it nice? Maybe one could use a small brush prior to hosing off.

[PGunn]

Here is what you need to protect the shiny stuff after a good cleaning they use it on pontoon boats to keep the tubes nice and shiny and should work real well on the bikes aluminum

Shark hide

http://www.sharkhide.com/index.html