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Originally Posted by sil
Remember that if you are looking to sell, even do it yourself to scrub the mats, polish the chrome, add leather/vinyl cleaner to seats and dash etc just to washaway years of grimy god-knows-what from everthing really helps the presentation and adds to the selling points . Mostly its easy to do yourself but there are things detailers can do with their elbos grease just to bring out the shine in headlight covers, wsindows and paint work.
But the efforts people put into pushbikes to polish I agree is amusing. If you use or depend on your pushy a good maintence is essential regularly to keep it running reliably just like you should with your car. Before my stroke left me barely able to stand let alone walk, I got around with my pushy, nothing expensive and flash, just functional and good for on /off road excursions and servicing I found a pleasurable way to spend a sunday arvo, just tightening anything coming loose, cleaning crud off the chain and tyres a simple allround wash etc. it really just makes a visual difference a hose can do to bring up the shine, so sadly I can see someone thinking the seat could be a little shinier, maybe the paint, certainly the chrome could sparkle more and before you know it you’ve spent $500 on specific cleaning products but every part you look at just looks as clean as it can be. Its must be that weird part of the ego that makes many people do the same with their bodies.. irrigating this, waxing that, bleaching the other and of course having twenty different types of trimmers and shavers. Very laughable behaviour but people think it works for some reason when really a shower even under the garden hose will scrub up most things, people included just fine. A speck of dirt or a hair out of place doesnt matter to the function. But it does make a difference com “sale time” interactions while the rest of us have a good giggle at these peacocks strtting at their reflections in shop windows.
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I might be wrong but, I suspect the 'bike' riders Alex was referring to were most likely motorcycle riders...
Takes me a good 5 - 6 hours to bring my Indian up to the standard I like, white wall tyres to scrub, acres of chrome that needs attention, gorgeous deep Indian red paintwork that needs love & a leather seat that requires looking after...
Oh my though, when it's done, she comes up very nicely for an 8yr old well ridden scoot...
Cheers