Tips to Cleaning your dirt bike

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Tips to Cleaning your dirt bike

Routine maintenance of your dirt bike is essential to ensure it remains in perfect working condition and the first way you can do this is by cleaning it thoroughly. But when cleaning your dirt bike, you need to do it properly because this helps make it more durable and improve its appearance. Otherwise, you might make washing the dirt bike a lot harder for yourself and do it according to how the manufacturer wanted to prevent specific issues. 

Luckily, certain cleaning tips help ease the troubles of washing your muddy dirt bike after a long and fun day on the track. Without further ado, here are some cleaning tips you should know. 

Use Cleaning Products 

While pressure washing does an excellent job of removing dirt, it isn’t enough and should instead also use cleaning products. This is especially crucial if you’re cleaning your dirt bike with a low-pressure hose. The use of cleaning solutions helps to remove oil, debris, and dirt that might have stuck on your dirt bike. As you do this, make sure the cleaning product reaches all the spaces of your dirt bike to remove all the sticky grime and oil, which doesn’t come off easily by pressure washing alone. 

The best cleaning solution is a mild detergent because this doesn’t film on the metal parts or scratch the plastic. 

Be Gentle When Pressure Washing 

There’s no doubt that pressure washing effectively removes mud, debris, and dirt stuck on your bike after every ride. With that said, you still need to be careful when washing off the crud, hardened soil, and mud off the wheels, fender, drive parts, and tires. This is crucial to prevent excessive pressure from impacting the chain, wheel bearings, and head stem. In addition, pressurized water can penetrate into sensitive parts of your dirt bike and start causing corrosion as well as destroy the seals. 

Mild spraying is also advised to avoid causing cracks and crevices on your dirt bike that you’ll have to deal with for subsequent years.  

Always Hose Down Your Dirt Bike 

You should make your dirt bike cleaning task easier by hosing it off before doing anything else. Doing this will help eliminate crud and mud on the drive parts, tires, wheels, and fenders. This saves you the trouble of dealing with hardened soil on your bike that makes cleaning a lot harder. Hosing your dirt bike also helps you remove dirt and grime in otherwise inaccessible parts such as crevices and other tiny areas. 

Take Care Of The Chain 

The chain is a sensitive part of the dirt bike that you must take care of even while cleaning. Therefore, you need to take proper care and start by cleansing it and drying it using compressed air. Because the chain loses some lubrication after cleaning it, make sure to apply some oil or grease. When applying the lubricant, you shouldn’t overdo it because this makes it a lot simpler to accumulate grime. 

While there are different kinds of chain lubricants, it’s recommended that you buy one that’s specifically meant for dirt bikes.