Heyah, i've gota shmexy Honda CBR250RR 1990 Mc22 that im currently painting, i've stripped it naked (omg ****) and i just want to give it a clean so it looks nice with the new white body, the main concerns are the front of the bike, under the front and behind the forks where those metal pipes are, pretty rusty down there ... look just generally how do you take off rust on the metal parts of the bike :P

 

I have a Rebel 250 that I've been doing some clean up on. It has some rust in a variety of places. One area was the side stand and muffler/exhaust pipe. I use a solution of Oxalic Acid in a plastic tub that I imerse the parts into. Here is a before and after. If it's on the frame, I don't know how you'd do it.



In the bath. (that's the handle bars, not the exhaust of course)


And the final outcome. I let it sit for about 24 hours in the solution.

 

nice one! looks almost new, i don't think i can take off the pipes to advanced for me haha :P i've been told to use COKE-A-COLA and a metal scrub or some other solution with a metal scrub

 

I think I saw that on Mythbusters. But they were using Coke a Cola and a wad of aluminum foil to clean a chrome bumper. It looked like it worked pretty good.


Moses

 

Well today i cleaned the absolute **** out of the rims, and metal work.. i maneged to take off the top layer of the rusts on the exaust pipes but still have a bit of rust, but atleast i got the pipes back to the nice color, but my rims look ****ing sexy

 

Home depot sales some stuff called naval jelly, it works really good on rust. Only downside and reason u may not be able to use is : cant use on stainless, will remove paint too and cant let sit more than 15 mins.

here's a link

http://www.loctiteproducts.com/p/s_t...-Dissolver.htm

Used it on the underside of my rear fender on my cruiser, the rust just wiped off with a towel.

 

Their are alot of Rust eater products available, but like bigboi said you dont want to use those products on stainless steel (unless it says its safe, but most are for metal only). I have heard of people using Baking soda and water on stainless steel to remove the rust. A guy told me he used a brush kind of like a toothbrush but bigger(toothbrush would work) and made a paste using baking soda and a small amount of water and just rub in the same direction as the grain. I remember he did this on his truck exhaust tips and they looked awesome afterwards.