cleaning baked on road crap off my motor

[jason 900sie]

Help please: i'm a bit of a clean freak and just bought a 2001 monster 900sie.The guy who had it before obviously didn't think it was important to do much cleaning.I was wondering if anyone had any tips for getting baked on road crap off my motor?

[lawmaster891]

carb cleaner and a tooth brush has worked good for me, followed by geased lightening an finally soap and water

[thought]

i've heard great things about hondabrite

[jason 900sie]

thanks for the tips. what is hondabrite?

[the_Journeyman]

I used dish soap and one of those sponges with the netting that are for removing bugs from windshields.  It worked great on most of the grime.  They're $1 a Big Lots or similar stores.

JM

[Speeddog]

carb cleaner and a tooth brush has worked good for me, followed by geased lightening an finally soap and water

Test the carb cleaner on an inconspicuous area first....

The older motors have more durable paint, but the new motors, not so much.
Do that on a new motor and you'll clean the paint right off.

[Mr Earl]

Simple Green.  Seriously, the stuff is miraculous.  Crap I couldn't get off with dish soap or WD-40 just literally melted off using Simple Green.  Thorough rinsing is mandatory - it's apparently corrosive to some extent.

[Ddan]

Test the carb cleaner on an inconspicuous area first....

The older motors have more durable paint, but the new motors, not so much.
Do that on a new motor and you'll clean the paint right off.

#1  I'd be very careful with the carb cleaner. 
This stuff is pretty amazing.

http://www.por15.com/MARINE-CLEAN/productinfo/MCG/

[zooom]

s100 seems to work pretty well for me.

[thought]

s100 seems to work pretty well for me.

to answer the prev question what hondabrite is, it's basically the same as s100.

http://www.bernardiparts.com/Hondabrite__08732-0020B.aspx

[scooterd145]

My FAVORITE remedy is Go Jo hand cleaner and an old tooth brush. Read it on here long ago and it worked great for me