What cleaning product to use?

[gunrunner]

Washed my new bike fir the first time and noticed what i think is brake pad residue from the front pads on the pipes . What is the best product that will remove this ..

[schrodingers cat]

If the pipes are stainless then some fine 240 grit sandpaper for the stubborn stuff and do the rest with those abrasive plasticy pot scrubs (usually green)
A bit of CRC makes the job easier.

If the pipes have an HPC coating or similar then suck it up and leave well alone.

[gunrunner]

If the pipes are stainless then some fine 240 grit sandpaper for the stubborn stuff and do the rest with those abrasive plasticy pot scrubs (usually green)
A bit of CRC makes the job easier.

If the pipes have an HPC coating or similar then suck it up and leave well alone.

Have this same question posted on a t-Bird site aswell .
The answer was oven cleaner .. who would of thort

[schrodingers cat]

I've been known to take to stainless pipes with an electro polisher.

A lot of stainless workshops have them now for de-oxidising the weld area

[Owl]

If the pipes are stainless then some fine 240 grit sandpaper for the stubborn stuff and do the rest with those abrasive plasticy pot scrubs (usually green)

Is that a joke?

[schrodingers cat]

Is that a joke?

Absoulutly NOT.

You can use stainless wire 'wool' also. Don't use steel wire wool cause it contaminates the base material.
Wire wool has been superseeded within industry by the scrubs I mentioned (can't think of the name' due to food safety regs. Apparently its OK to ingest bits of plastic but not bits of metal

[Owl]

I'm afraid I couldn't imagine using sandpaper for cleaning purposes and use on stainless, unless you're getting down to 2000 grit, which will still require polishing.

Well it certainly wouldn't be my first choice.

The green scrubs are Scotchbrite (or variant of) and the coarsest in the line. Green is followed by red, grey, yellow and lastly white.

[imdying]

240grit is a bit coarser than I would've gone for.

[neels]

I used autosol on the headers on my xj600 which I think were black chrome, bought them up nice and shiny after they possibly had never been cleaned in their life, and didn't do any damage to the finish. Works good on all the alloy bits too.

[slofox]

Cleaning..? What's that?

[ukusa]

I used autosol on the headers on my xj600 which I think were black chrome, bought them up nice and shiny after they possibly had never been cleaned in their life, and didn't do any damage to the finish. Works good on all the alloy bits too.

Used it on the weekend also, worked great. A fine cutting paste would probably also work.

[Grubber]

Mothers metal polish is magic or Blue magic Metal polish. Either of these are extremely good on all aluminium stainless or chrome.
I'm a Meguiars fan myself for all other cleaning products.