Normally on a road trip if you want to make your bike look good sometime along the way, you have to carry some cleaning supplies. Chrome polish, wax, and Armor-all are usually in my arsenal. I also carry a can of Lemon Pledge for my helmet. This is an old biker's trick, the Lemon Pedge cleans bugs and stuff of your faceplate like nothing else, and has the added benefit of making water bead up and blow off if you are in the rain. It also reduces the crazing you can usually see in the plastic face shield when riding into the sun. The problem is that space is limited, and all these products take up valuable and needed space.
Here comes a product endorsement: "Can Do" replaces all of those products, hands down. After washing the bikes in the car wash, mine was still a mess. The high-pressure spray, on soap, directed at my pipes from less than an inch away would not cut the baked-on gook. Also the water there was extremely "hard" and left a bad film on both bikes.
Out came the "Can Do" and a couple of rags.
I sprayed this stuff on a section of my pipes and let it sit for about 30 seconds. The gook wiped right off, leaving shiny chrome underneath. No problem. Easy. I was stunned.
"Hey James, check this out." I did it again to another section. James stunned. We had been talking about buying oven-cleaner for this task.
We then proceeded to wipe every part of both bikes down. In time had two clean, shiny, and remarkable machines, you would never guess they had just travelled hundreds of miles, much less the mess mine had been earlier. This stuff works, and works well. It is all I will ever carry for this task in the future.
Life Is A Road Daniel Meyer p42