The price of laziness

Is 50 quid an hour.

That's what I paid a bloke to clean my R1 while I was at work.

It is bloody good and is in showroom condition again but I don't know if
it's worth 50 quid.

 

fx(ears prick)
photos?

 

£50 quid an hour is too much for what is semi-skiled labour at best.

However to get my bike back to showroom condition would take more than
an hour and if he is self employed and had to travel to get to your
bike, maintain and run a vehicle etc. then it doesn't seem so bad.

Personally I'll clean my own bike (or not) but wouldn't come and do
yours for £50

 

If they've done a really good job and it is spotless, it would
be money well spent in both keeping it clean and in resale
value.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Vass belched forth and ejected the following:

Err, it's outside and it's chained, anchored and covered.

I'll get the best pics I can with what I can do without dragging it all
out.

<Goes outside with camera>

OK, it's universally understood I'm shit with a camera but here's three:

www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/DSC00166.JPG
www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/DSC00167.JPG
www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/DSC00168.JPG

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, antonye belched forth and ejected the following:

It's in the same condition as when I bought it - mint.

He did a manager's Harley clone for the same money but was there pretty
much all afternoon polishing the thing.

Yes, it cost a bit but I'm happy with the results.

 

Nicknoxx wrote

Oh I dunno. I could be tempted to take a bucket and sponge to his cbr,
if only to watch him cry.

 

impressed - who'd you use?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Vass belched forth and ejected the following:

Mo-Clean in Greenford

 

Yes, I guess it all depends on what the bike is like underneath
as to how the results come up. My 748's engine has peeling paint
and rusty nuts, so while it could do with a clean it'll only
show up the shit bits.

That's the main thing. It does look in damn good nick.

 

I slop bike cleaner over it and rinse off after every long-ish ride
(e.g. mine was minging with grit when it came back from Sedan), which
keeps the worst off, then when dry, lube the chain.

I deep clean it (take lube and crap off the wheels and clean the chain)
twice a year.

Doesn't take that long, but it never gets back to 'showroom finish'.

P.

 

I think that's cleaner than any bike I've ever owned, even when bought
new....

 

Bloody hell, that's clean.

Well worth 50 quid, IMHO.

I should find someone around here who'll do mine for me.

 

"You can't polish a turd"

 

<re-checks headers>

Hmmm, I could have sworn you were Bear with a post like that....

Desperately need to clean it properly, though.

 

I was expecting a better bite than that ;-)

I'm with Ant. Cleaning the Ducati only shows how shite the rusty bits
are.

I remember pointing a jet wash at my Moto Guzzi Spada in the 1980s. I
watched as it simply blasted off the frame paint. Horrifying. Hardly
bothered to clean it at all after that.

 

In a particularly chilled out mood at the moment as I have the week off
work, and I'm off down West Wales for a spot of sea fishing tomorrow.

Yes, well, if you will buy badly built Wop shite ;-)

 

Whinging Courier <> had a sudden rush
of blood to the head and wrote in @news.individual.net:

http://www.whingingcourier.dsl.pipex.com/DSC00166.JPG

He's even cleaned all the engine oil out of it for you!

--
Ash

UKRMFBC#8 BOTAFOT#82 BOTAFOF#41 HMC#5 FTB#0
Gone: ETV1000 Caponord
http://www.theredline.co.uk
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast
enough." -- Mario Andretti

 

And yet you won't pay to have it dealer serviced?

 

<ginge>
You could varnish one though.
</ginge>