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SamY93
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White Wheels

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So I guess a lot of you have white wheels on your 30's and 35's. Now they look amazing, most of the time, mine are covered in brake dust and general muck. How do you lot keep your wheels clean? whipping off the wheel tomorrow to sort out my rear brake, so just thought is there anything I can put on it to keep it whiter for longer? or do I have to keep on top of cleaning them?
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Re: White Wheels

Post by lizard821000 »

i use wd40 mate, and constant cleaning lol dont get any on your brakes though pal.
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Re: White Wheels

Post by BillingCBR »

Autoglym clean wheels, good stuff, just eats through the crap :D
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got my white NC30 wheels powdercoated black.

RVF has black wheels as standard, yay!
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Re: White Wheels

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If you're going to use wheel acid, don't leave it on too long or you'll have little splats of white paint up your V-piece!

This tip FOC from me, whose housemate did the same on his 600SRAD.
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Re: White Wheels

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After you have cleaned the wheels to near perfections, wd-40, wonder wheels etc etc wash them off fully and build up 3 or 4 coats of wax with a good wax compoud.

This will making cleaning them 100x easier
xivlia wrote:i dont go fast on this bike so really do not need a rear brake.. /
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Re: White Wheels

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Neosophist wrote:After you have cleaned the wheels to near perfections, wd-40, wonder wheels etc etc wash them off fully and build up 3 or 4 coats of wax with a good wax compoud.

This will making cleaning them 100x easier
This sounds like the sort of thing I was after. Good ideas people, cheers :up:
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Post by Neosophist »

I use meguiars gold class stuff as its clear and you can build it up quite hard with a bit of practice, after-which the road grime and brake dust wash off the wax rather than stick to the wheel itself
xivlia wrote:i dont go fast on this bike so really do not need a rear brake.. /
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