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ACF50 treatment day at Loomies

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Phmode:
I have decided to give the bike a spring clean before maybe putting it up for sale and having heard so much good stuff about the professional ACF50 treatment, I have booked it in at Loomies on Saturday 23 January. If you don't know where Loomies is you are a) not a biker b) don't live in the south or c) have ever lived; delete as appropriate.

The guy doing the full treatment is Andy Clementson from All Year Biker

Here is the link

http://allyearbiker.co.uk

I could, of course, spend all day outside in the freezing cold(?) with buckets, sponges, brushes, pressure washers, endless cups of tea and coffee and about a squillion detailing products and still not get the same results. So I have decided to spend all day in Loomies (under new management so my lifetime ban has been rescinded  8) ) and let Andy take the strain while I enjoy, and actually drink, endless cups of tea and coffee, bacon sarnies, full English breakfasts and much, much else.

So, if you are an idle sod like me and fancy some super deep-cleaning and corrosion protection, you could book yourself in or even book in your bike.

Brian (or you could just pop downand say 'allo' and buy me a coffee and watch all my accumulated grime being magic'ed away  8) )'

midlife crisis:
I have never been to Loomies and don't know where it is but that might be to do with my memory loss or living up norf. However agree that the ACF50 treatment from allyearbiker is excellent.

so what are you going to buy after selling your bike?

Graham

Duc750:
Now, this is interesting - I thought the treatment from all year biker was rubbish. I think if you have two opposing thumbs and know how to clean a bike (and have the time for fairings off etc.) you can do a far better job yourself.
If however you don't then its probbably better than the "local polich car wash" but only just 

TomL:
I went to watch a group of riders from our club getting their bikes treated by Allyearbiker at the house of one our members.

The first bike that he did was an old GS that looked like it hadn't been cleaned for at least a year and it took him ages especially cleaning the spoked wheels. An excellent job and I thought worth the money.

When he did my mates K1200GT he didn't even take off the fairing side panels and made a big play of giving the bike a wash with the foam wash gun. Impressive if you haven't seen a bike covered with foam was before. Waste of maney if you ask me because the hidden metal parts are what need cleaning and treating not the plastic fairing.

I bought 4 litres of ACF50 years ago and although it cost me just under £100 it was good value considering how many bikes it will treat using my own compressor and spray gun. The secret is to warm up the ACF50 in it's container and to warm up the spray gun. The bike has to be clean and dry with most of the fairing panels removed. I tend to use ACF50 on a brush on bits like the disc bolt heads and calliper bolt heads.

Must get myself a foam wash attachment for my pressure washer.

JackSnipe:
Have you not got to take account of the shelf life of ACF50, 2 years I believe. So we may have to be careful buying it in bulk ? My favoured size is in 1 Litre Bottle with its smaller pump/spray applicator. The Aerosols are a poor way of applying ACF 50. The latter is the way to go and as Tom states heat it up first by sticking sprayer in a  bowl of Hot water prior to use.


JS

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