How do I keep my pipe shiney?

Kyle

Kyle

yamadogyz:
It curls back pretty far huh? Are your boots good sized? I'd heat the bike up and use paint thinner or better yet gas to wipe it all off. Then polish it up with some mothers wax or turtle wax or something :thumb:
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Awesome! Thanks but I'm running the stock shift lever on it and you would know what it looks like sence you have the best brand ever! (yamaha for you losers who are questioning me :P)
 
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yamadogyz

Kyle:
Awesome! Thanks but I'm running the stock shift lever on it and you would know what it looks like sence you have the best brand ever! (yamaha for you losers who are questioning me :P)
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Hell yeah! :thumb: I have a sunline on mine, my stock got stripped out man! :lol:
 
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yamadogyz

Kyle:
Haha yeah, my next shift peg; should it be rubber or just bare like the stock one?
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I never liked rubber coated shifters, matter of opinion but I prefer metal with some sort of grip. The stock was short and the metal was smooth, mines wider and more agressive. I sincerely love mine :thumb:
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Nighthawk016

Nighthawk016

Kyle:
Well, wouldn't steel wool scratch my pipe? 140 Rider I grip the bike with my legs and my boot will rub around on it. Also, I like to keep my things looking and working nice because, I dont have money to replace anything.
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do you ride MX or the fashion show runway? It's an expansion chamber. It's gonna get dirty, dinged, scratched, and dented... thats all part of riding a dirt bike. As for the riding on the balls of your feet and your toes still hitting the shifter/brake, Do you have 8" long toes? or are your boots 6 sizes to big for you? my foot peg has to be under the middle of my boot to reach my brake lever or shifter.
 
justincr250

justincr250

Nighthawk016:
do you ride MX or the fashion show runway? It's an expansion chamber. It's gonna get dirty, dinged, scratched, and dented... thats all part of riding a dirt bike. As for the riding on the balls of your feet and your toes still hitting the shifter/brake, Do you have 8" long toes? or are your boots 6 sizes to big for you? my foot peg has to be under the middle of my boot to reach my brake lever or shifter.
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it may be a dirt bike but some people like to take care of then I clean my bike real good after every ride
 
Travace

Travace

id say more dirt bike riders are anal about bikes being clean then not. its because people put a lot of time and money into these machines.
honestly tho i cant help but first think "i wonder if this guy REALLY rides that thing" when i see a super clean bike. i try not to judge but there is those guys like CDA .... the bikes just never leave the stand :P

ps... i like my bike like i like my women.... a little dirty.
lets me know i still try hard enough
 
SPEAKERMAN

SPEAKERMAN

35-50 rides a year, 20 min or less of cleaning after every ride, 7 year old bike (on plastics set #2)....
I won't work on a dirty bike, and that is the KEY....you gotta inspect EVERYTHING after a 80mile 40mph avg ride. Impossible to do so if you can't see every little thing in there...

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CDA

CDA

Nothing wrong with taking the extra time and polishing the bike up. Just hosing the dirt off, is not allowing to do a good inspection of your bike. These are dirt bikes and most of you ride them hard (excluding me of coarse). That causes wear and tear and if you just hose them off and put them away, you will not see the little parts that are broken or have cracked. Water will sit and rust some parts. Taking the time to polish the exhaust pipe will allow you to inspect the pipe mounts for broken mounts or cracks in the mounts.

Or you can ride it until crap starts falling off on the trails and it cuts your ride and your friends ride short....:prof: As for me, I keep my bike super shinny because it needs to look good when sitting on the stand all day as Trav mentioned above. I like when people think I am really fasts because my bike looks all shinny and new. Boy are they disappointed though when I occasionally take it down...
 
James

James

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Nighthawk016:
do you ride MX or the fashion show runway? It's an expansion chamber. It's gonna get dirty, dinged, scratched, and dented... thats all part of riding a dirt bike.
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Looks like we're all ganging up on this. :lol:

A clean bike is different from a bling'ed out bike. The cleanliness of the bike says a lot about the owner and the maintenance of the bike. My 05 had some bling (engine plugs, axle blocks, exhaust, etc.) but I didn't put it on there for looks. Instead it was to fix broken parts.

I totally agree with the "fashion show" statement when people totally bling their bike out just for looks. I'd rather spend that money on parts that actually matter or on maintenance costs.
 
Emily

Emily

If you buy a 250 dollar pipe why would you let it sit there and rust to hell when you can ask DBA how to keep it lookin' fly. :noidea: Because ruining something you paid a lot of money for is the thing to do just because it's a dirt bike :thumbdown:
 
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