If you love him you’ll protect him …

C’mon now girls equality works both ways – and in this day and age we have to do our bit to protect the ones we love. After all it’s not fair to ask your partner to do all the work without you taking a bit of responsibility too! I am, of course, referring to the need to care for your wheels (what else would I mean?) 😉

Think about it – day in day out, or at least for about three-quarters of the year, we are out on our wheels through all kinds of weather and what the world throws at us. Usually this involves a bit of rain, the inevitable salt, road mud or silt, possibly some horse pucky and in my case a new one on the list was spit. Yes I actually got spat on (or rather my bike did) by some faceless cager who drove past when I was parked up by the roadside. It’s at times like that that you realise ignorance is bliss and I can’t say I would have behaved responsibly if I’d been aware of it at the moment it happened if you get my drift….

Last month my baby boy, Silvano, was going to get the royal treatment – ACF50 in a spray form was to be applied to his nether regions in an effort to hold at bay the corrosion salt tends to cause to any vehicle used all year round. This was going to be done by professionals – a bloke from All Year Biker.  I left him in the care of my big sis, handed over £60 for the company, went off for a weekend and collected him later.

I have to admit to being a little surprised that the bike wasn’t pristine – as I spotted a handful of flies still stuck to the headlights and the forks. I am told this is because they are not valets – they wash the bike enough to get it clean for the spray to adhere, not to pristine eat-your-dinner-off standards. Fair enough 😛 What I will say is whilst not immaculate the Sprint ST 955i has come up a treat – you’ve seen him before so here are just a couple of pics zooming in on before and after pics.

Now that we have a hosepipe ban in this neck of the woods I feel I am justified in putting off purchasing my hosepipe and attachments which I was planning to make to keep my boy looking brilliant lol! Instead I shall see how this treatment holds up. If it’s any good I shall continue to use protection and save myself from a nasty surprise a few months down the line… I am of course referring to a bad case of corrosion 😉

Ride safe