Jet Wash every time,as long as your patient enough to dry everything.Then the Autoglym stuff and then a quick wipe with WD40 to keep everything tip-top.The only strange thing is my alarm tick-tocks like a clock when it gets really wet.
Surely though if you are not using water you run a higher risk of scratching your paintwork??
Depends on the level of dirt, if caught out in the rain and the bike is covered in road crud then I have been known to hose it down with clean water before leather and polish.
If it's only dust and flys then a damp leather on the flys and a clean soft cloth with Mer polish for everything else.
Have stripped all the body work off and jet washed the frame, wheels and engine arround once a year to get rid of the dirt that build up on the bits that you can't normally see.
Originally posted by wato39 I'm guessing from reading here that you chaps would not recomend jet washing the engine then?
depends how much power on it mate....
Ducati engine casings are notoriously 'flakey'
How do the elcrtrics stand up , i was a mechanic on Ferrari's for a good few years and the Magnetti Merrelli (spelling?) parts on those didn't like jet washing at all , we used to spend ages blowing them dry with a airline,they also never liked Wd40 spayed all over them too much either .
I use Muc Off or Wurth cleaning stuff. Fill up a few plastic Volvic bottles and use them to rinse the bike - that way you don't drown the electrics. Been doing it every month for two years, no probs.
Muc Off for loosening the general accumulated dirt, followed by rinse down with bucket of warmish water. Paraffin round the rims on a rag to lift up the worst of the grime and anywhere the chain lube has splattered itself. (oh and a decent tin of elbow grease) Jiminy
15-May-2006, 14:14 
Jet Wash every time,as long as your patient enough to dry everything.Then the Autoglym stuff and then a quick wipe with WD40 to keep everything tip-top.The only strange thing is my alarm tick-tocks like a clock when it gets really wet.
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