What do you use to clean the wheels

[Cube]

Is there a particular product you guys use to clean the wheels apart from soap and water. These wheels fitted to my bike have not seen the light of day for several years, I have cleaned them with a silicone spray but the grain like appearance is filled with road grime, what do I use to remove it?

[dave#3]

Lately I've been using brake cleaner and a rag. I used to use the orange oil (Orange Power or something similar) from SuperCheap but found it left a bit of wheel-coloured paint on the cleaning rag. There are commercial mag wheel cleaners available but some say specifically that they're not for use on motorcycle wheels.

[robracer]

White Spirit will desolve the oils & ingrained grease without affecting the paint or clearcoat & CT18 (not as a concentrate) will do the rest, just keep it away from bare alloy

[Birdman]

i normally just wipe my wheels over with a rag and some INOX or WD40

[Birdman]

oh and dont spray it on the wheel, spray it on the rag and wipe, last thing you want on your brake rotors is INOX or WD40

[zx6rider]

Is there a particular product you guys use to clean the wheels apart from soap and water. These wheels fitted to my bike have not seen the light of day for several years, I have cleaned them with a silicone spray but the grain like appearance is filled with road grime, what do I use to remove it?

I've Heard Elbow Grease gets them all nice and shiny

[evilsim]

WD40 ... it's the shit.

[cookeetree]

My wheels are polished and have bits of tar stuck to them. Best product for removing this???

[JetPilot]

My wheels are polished and have bits of tar stuck to them. Best product for removing this???

Try Turtle wax tar and bug remover.
I have polished rims to and after Motogp my rims where shot.
This stuff removed all the tar.

[robracer]

My wheels are polished and have bits of tar stuck to them. Best product for removing this???

White Spirit........ I first got the tip from a BMW dealership that would use WS to remove Tar from the duco.... it will not effect the bare alloy.

[Gazza]

bug and tar remover is the go

it gets rid of any chain lube spatter and anything else on the wheels

[ty]

I used to use Motul's chain cleaner on both the chain and the wheels.
Worked like a charm, worked better than WD40 - probably very similar to Dave#3's brake cleaner
ty

[lifeofcrimeguy]

What about kero?

[Shifty]

Spray'n'wipe... seriously! I've found it's great as it's designed to break through kitchen grime & oil spatters/spills... but not damage touchy painted surfaces, laminex, etc... it's great!

[robracer]

What about kero?

Kero will dull the paint