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Sunday rode up with a friend to Cook's Corner, then the back way to Ortega Highway and up towards Lake Elsinore, stopping at the regular biker hangouts along the way. Dozens and dozens of bikes, sleek low cruisers, full dressers, crotch rockets, exotics (a dazzling Arctic White Ducati Hyperstrada, the one with the alien insectoid looking beak), and homebrew rats, just lots of dazzling chrome and shiny paint. Spring riding season has begun early and this forum needs some more action.
Spent the better part of the day Saturday at the Meguiar's Intergalactic Headquarters, aka The Mothership, getting schooled in air DA damp sanding and rotary buffing. The Good: donuts, pizza, the best training money can buy, and slinging product on Zen Master Stoops by unintentionally using poor technique with a rotary buffer, really it was an accident. The Bad: the warm bright Southern California winter sun lighting up every swirl and defect on my new Pearl Nebular Black bike.
The really good is I saw a new DA Power System tool. I guess I haven't kept up with the latest, cuz apparently this thing is the bizness. And I hadn't even heard of it. It's promoted as being perfect for girls and the unemployed. Those are my words. I think Meguiar's are more like "for peeps afraid of the big scary power tools and those whose budgetary constraints make it difficult to purchase regular DA polishers and still be able to feed the kids at least once every other day."
I think Megs may have missed the marketing boat on this one-- and here is where I tie this rambling account of seemingly unrelated events together-- this thing seems perfect for polishing motorcyles. The paint in curvy places. The chrome pieces in various sizes. The unpainted plastic panels. The lexan windscreens. There is some serious polishing to be done on bikes. Everyone knows a shiny bike goes 30% faster than the same bike with scratches and swirls.
So this is the plan to put this new Biker's Friend to the test. First, I gotta buy one these suckers. Which I've already done in pretty much the time it took to write these words saying I did, what with the wonders of online ordering and all. Next, I gotta stuff this little mechanical wonder in the tank bag and shlep it down to the next Thursday Night Open Garage and, under the watchful eyes of Those Who Know What They're Doing and Don't Mind Guiding Thems Who Don't Know So Much, see if I can't make that Pearl Nebular Black paint soar. Plus I want to see what it can do to some of my helmets, especially the scratched up face shields, those things are kinda spendy to replace and scratched up shields are dangerous. I wonder whether it can't be used to clean the bugs off my teeth and make 'em all shiny and bright again.
Stay tuned . . . .
Spent the better part of the day Saturday at the Meguiar's Intergalactic Headquarters, aka The Mothership, getting schooled in air DA damp sanding and rotary buffing. The Good: donuts, pizza, the best training money can buy, and slinging product on Zen Master Stoops by unintentionally using poor technique with a rotary buffer, really it was an accident. The Bad: the warm bright Southern California winter sun lighting up every swirl and defect on my new Pearl Nebular Black bike.
The really good is I saw a new DA Power System tool. I guess I haven't kept up with the latest, cuz apparently this thing is the bizness. And I hadn't even heard of it. It's promoted as being perfect for girls and the unemployed. Those are my words. I think Meguiar's are more like "for peeps afraid of the big scary power tools and those whose budgetary constraints make it difficult to purchase regular DA polishers and still be able to feed the kids at least once every other day."
I think Megs may have missed the marketing boat on this one-- and here is where I tie this rambling account of seemingly unrelated events together-- this thing seems perfect for polishing motorcyles. The paint in curvy places. The chrome pieces in various sizes. The unpainted plastic panels. The lexan windscreens. There is some serious polishing to be done on bikes. Everyone knows a shiny bike goes 30% faster than the same bike with scratches and swirls.
So this is the plan to put this new Biker's Friend to the test. First, I gotta buy one these suckers. Which I've already done in pretty much the time it took to write these words saying I did, what with the wonders of online ordering and all. Next, I gotta stuff this little mechanical wonder in the tank bag and shlep it down to the next Thursday Night Open Garage and, under the watchful eyes of Those Who Know What They're Doing and Don't Mind Guiding Thems Who Don't Know So Much, see if I can't make that Pearl Nebular Black paint soar. Plus I want to see what it can do to some of my helmets, especially the scratched up face shields, those things are kinda spendy to replace and scratched up shields are dangerous. I wonder whether it can't be used to clean the bugs off my teeth and make 'em all shiny and bright again.
Stay tuned . . . .
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