Favorite Bike Wash Products?

0) Install an airbox wash cover or cover the air filter with a plastic grocery bag.
1) Hose off the big stuff with a pressure washer.
2) Use a 1-gallon garden sprayer to mist the bike and boots with concentrated simple green (50/50 mix with water).
3) Let the bike sit while I hose off the other bike.
4) rinse with the pressure washer and a soft bristle brush to knock loose the stubborn bits.
5) WD-40 the chain with a rag on the chain slider to prevent dripping.

Simple green will get me some hate...   If you leave it sit on the bike for a long time, it will degrade aluminum and some other surfaces.  Leaving it on for 5 to 15 minutes won't hurt anything over the useful life of a bike.

Pressure washers can destroy a linkage and a set of steering-stem bearings quick!  Be careful that you don't blast those seals.

1800 psi electric pressure washer and muc off cleaner. Stuff is awesome and I swear the bike looks shinier after I use it. If you’re cost conscious I’d recommend shout laundry spray

Muc-Off is the best because they’re the only company that doesn’t test any of their products on animals. 

Mr Clean uncut. Thank Don Stephenson in the early 90’s for the tip. 

Simple Green and your favorite scrubrush.8

Shout in a spray bottle. Dilute with water to save on $$$

Shout is the shit. 

Pressure wash all the heavy stuff. Soak the entire bike with shout and let it sit until you notice some of it starting to dry. Pressure wash again. WD on the chain, shifter tip spring, foot peg springs, rear brake clevis. Some may not agree with me here but I spray WD on every joint in the linkage/rear shock as well. In saying that, I race southeast Ohio harescrambles so I'm constantly burying all my shit in mud. 

Pressure washer , wd40. If your not using a pressure washer, "do you even ride?"

I was skeptical of Shout until I tried it. It's really magical. Doesn't leave hard spots like a degreaser would. Gets all of those red coat stains out pretty easily as well

I just used up the rest of my muc-off soap and can say there is nothing special about it (as much as I wanted it to be). 

For the most part I use Super Clean (in the purple jug) and spray it out of a foam cannon- works better than Muc-off soap. 
 

I do like the Muc-off spray multilube- followed by some SC1 on almost everything.

100% yes.  WD-40 is great for all that stuff.

The WD-40 flashes off and leaves a dry-ish surface after a day or two depending on how warm/dry your shop or garage happens to be.

On my two strokes I do the pipe with the 3M scotch-brite green kitchen pads from the grocery store and some WD.  The minimal oil-film left behind is not long term protection, but it will prevent rust in the very short term (over a few months).

My son loves the maxima bio wash.  

Dawn works amazing 

Most of the time it's Simple Green but recently tried Total Wash Off-road by WR Performance Products. It worked good but the bottle goes quick! 

Give their air filter wash a try, the filters look brand new with zero effort. 
 

as far as cleaners, I’ve been using Mr Clean for about 10 years. It’s cheap and really works good. Shout is another option that I’ve tried. 

I wash my bike at the track after every day of riding.

Water and power washer, that's it. Leaf blower if I'm not in a rush to get home for dinner.

I've learned that when I don't let the dirt dry on, the bike look sprety damn good with very little work.

Muc off is great spray it on let is sit for a few minutes, I usually agitate with a brush and then everything rinses off. You can read up one dollar store citrus cleaners, dawn and simple green but it’s bad for aluminum and anodizing. A lot of people will swear they’ve never had issues but put their bikes next to a new one and you can see how dull they are. 
 

Dawn is real bad I used to use it to set new tires on the bead, then Jay Clark from Dunlop said it was bad and I realized whenever I replaced tires the inside of the rims were super corroded because of the dawn. YMMV but I’ve done quite a few back to back tests and shout and muc off were the best. 
 

plus one for muc off being a bicycle brand for carbon, aluminum and steel product cleaning. High end bikes have many expensive and delicate parts if it’s good enough for an $11k bicycle it’s good enough for my dirtbike.

The question should be for everyone to walk out in their garage and take a close up picture of the their bike with a sheet of paper with their screen name/date and post the pic.....the bikes that actually look legit and well cared for is who you should ask.  There is some really bad advice in here and guaranteed their bikes are roached.  

That was likely trapped moisture from dawn and water corroding your rims. As far as I know dawn isn’t corrosive at all 

This is a good video with solid advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne15Uq7QbeA&t=461s

My first step is installing a filter cover and exhaust plug.  The next is spraying Gunk degreaser on everything that has chain lube stuck to it.  I let that soak for a few and then soak the bike with Shout or Walmart brand shout.  After that sits for a bit, I pressure wash off everything of paying attention to keep from getting into the bearings.  After that, I soak the bike, keeping clear of the brakes, in WD40 or the like,  Then, everything get wiped down with a clean towel.   If the bike is covered in mud, I will do an initial rinse with a hose to get rid of the mud.  Then, I will do all of the above.

I believe there are better products than wd40 to soak the bike in. Yes it does a decent job, but for the same $$ belray or sc1 do a better job. Wd is more of a solvent than a lube

Never had a bad Muc-Off product.

They're not assholes and they actively support the sport on many levels.

There’s a million bike wash brands out there, certainly here in the U.K. 

imo there isn’t much difference between the cleaners. I’d just take a look at who’s supporting the sport and go with them. Muc-off seem to be putting a lot of support in the us with the firepower Honda team. Over here we have smaller companies like Verde who support British mx a fair bit so I’d probably use their stuff.

technique wise, pressure wash as much as possible, then spray and scrub with cleaner (I always carry some scotchbrite just to clean up pipes swingarms etc) then power wash off, dry with leaf blower or towel or whatever best you can then WD-40 any moving parts, lube the chain and stick her in the garage. Extra points for using some bullshit spray (SC-1) to make her extra shiny.

i’m old school… S100 (Honda Brite!) it’s available fairly cheap 35 ish bucks for a gallon and i dilute 50/50 and it darn near last all year! 

I buy shout by the gallon from Sam’s club. Got a handheld pump sprayer. Pressure wash them down. Spray them with shout. Wait a bit. Pressure wash off. Blow dry. WD 40 chain. 

I have tried countless cleaners over the years. This is by far the best thing I ever used.