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Hi all,
just wanted to introduce something I’ve been working on for a while.
But before all of that, a bit of a background story!
Every since I was a child I have helped my father clean cars. My father restores vintage racing cars (Le man, British GT, American muscle) and some of these cars are worth in excess of £3m. As you can imagine you treat them a lot differently once they’ve had a 2 year restoration! No quick hose-down and a bucket of water thrown over the car.
The art of detailing is to enhance and maintain the condition of whatever you are cleaning while safely removing any contaminants that will damage your prized possession. Tar, tree sap, salt, oil and general muck that will overtime eat into your paint-work and components.
I’ve been detailing my bikes for as long as I can remember. With my father cleaning his car and me not old enough to drive (or ride without stabilisers…) I was cleaning my bike. I have tried and tested many, many products on my bike from brushes to waxes, finding what I like and disliked.
I found the current bike cleaning market a little dull and surprisingly even some of the high-end bicycle companies recommend washing your bike with regular detergent you’d find in your kitchen (salt, warm water and your bike is not a good mix). It doesn’t take long for the paintwork and parts on your bike to go ‘dull’. Small swirl marks on your paint-work, grit in your components etc.
Over the last year I’ve been working with an automotive care manufacturer. I told them how I wanted the shampoo to foam, smell, and eat through grime and generally how I’d like it to clean a bicycle. With a lot of toing and foring, we came up with a solution that cleaned a bike exactly how I wanted it to.
The shampoo is a real pleasure to use. It foams up amazingly well meaning it soaks and helps remove the general muck from your bike. It just requires a simple agitation from a brush for the heavy stuff. It won’t eat into your bearings or remove heavier oil from your drive chain. The bottle is very small but it’s highly concentrated. Dilution ratio is 1900:1 so 2 caps is perfect for a detailing bucket (20 litre). Bucket pictured is 13l, a single capful was enough.
The wax is fantastic, it’s a 60g tub but this will last you years, even if you’re waxing your bike once a month. It’s a Carnauba wax that has been hand mixed here in the UK. It beads amazingly when wet, creates a stunning shine to your paint-work and protects your bike from road salt (even in the summer!) acid rain, mud, oil and airborne contaminants. It’ll also fill in existing scratches and slightly reduce the chances of paint chips. Future bike cleaning will also be extraordinarily easy once you’ve waxed your bike. The shampoo will not remove the wax.
We are still working on the packaging but what’s inside the bottle is the finished product.
I would really like to offer these products individually or as a whole kit to the forum.
I will be including special instructions to get the most out of the products, also receiving feedback would be fantastic.
If you’d like to purchase these products, here is the forum pricing:
. Shampoo - £12
. Wax - £16
Full kit - £30
. Shampoo
. Wax
. Detailing cloth (in No Quarter Purple)
. Foam wax applicator
. Detailing brush
Please feel free to PM me if you’d like to order individual products or the whole kit.
Many thanks,
James
p.s, here's my winter bike being cleaned...