If it's just surface rust then a good rub down with a 3M pad or (stainless steel wool type stuff) and some sort of cleaning wax will do. If it's structural rust (steel rusted away) then you need to have it fixed properly. So either take some pics so we can see it or get someone who knows what's what to look it over.
Cleaning. Get a squirty bottle and bung about quarter of a cup of fabric softener into it. Fill it up with water. Bike should be no more than warm. Squirt bike all over with mixture, just wet it. Make coffee. Hose bike off and spray with mixture again. Drink coffee.
Get a bucket of hotish water, add a shot of dishwashing detergent. Get a dishwashing brush and a toothbrush and scrub every surface of the bike. You missed some bits under the guards and around the exhaust, do it again. Hose the bike off and towel it down.
Get one of the car cleaning waxes and rub it into any paint and chrome. Let it dry and rub it over again. Repeat.
That's it, do that every month or so and you shouldn't see any further deterioration.
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
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