WD40: the indispensable product in the biker's toolbox

Whether protecting your bike from moisture, greasing, scrubbing, shining plastics, the WD-40 knows everything Do or almost do!

Since its origins in the 1950s in the United States, the WD-40 brand has been a huge success and is now known and recognised for its high-quality cleaning products. Over the years, WD40 has been renowned for its multifunctional product (often referred to as a drying-out product).

Spray WD-40 Multifunction

The most common and sold of the products of the American brand is the spray WD-40 Multifunction which as its name suggests (which is abusively called degrippant) really knows how to do almost everything for the motorcycle.
It makes it possible, for example:

• protect your motorcycle from corrosion
• to chase away moisture
• to make the plastics shine,
• to facilitate the release of parts that have been gripped or blocked by rust, to lubricate
• remove grease and tar stains, etc.
• etc

Products for motorcycles

– WD-40 chain cleaner aerosol

The WD40 chain cleaner allows you to break down the chain of your bike in depth.
After spraying, the product quickly removes dirt, dust and oil residues embedded in the chain. If your chain is really dirty, use a brush after spraying the cleaner to help remove deeply embedded residues. After this thorough cleaning, consider greasing your chain!

– WD-40 motorcycle chain lubricant spray

With multipurpose degrippant, chain lubricant Motorcycle Specialist is probably one of the best products from WD40. If you have never tried this motorcycle chain lubricant, you can go with your eyes closed.
With other products on the market, it is sometimes difficult to find the good mix between bonne adhesion, good lubrication and held in time (either it flows too much and throws oil everywhere, or the oil ‘glues’ too much and makes abrasive paste ... or the oil lasts an hour and then nothing ...) but there WD40 seems to have found the right formula, because to this day, we did not find better to grease the transmissions of our motorcycles !

– Silicone aerosol WD-40

To protect and give your bike a boost, there is nothing better than a silicone spray. To revive and shine the plastics on your motorcycle, protect the rubber parts, WD has developed a silicone polisher that gives the plastics shine again without the need for a cloth to shine.

Brake Cleaner WD-40

Another essential product for the motorcycle is the brake cleaner, which will allow you to effectively degrease your brake disc (grease is the enemy of brake pads and discs). In addition to helping you remove all traces of grease on your motorcycle (on steel or plastics), this product will also allow you to easily remove traces of glue (e.g. when you take off a kit deco or sticker , before gluing the new one, pass brake cleaner on your plastics to degrease them properly and remove all glue residues) 

Special Motorcycle Pack : chain cleaner + chain lubricant + silicone polisher

Rather than buying the 3 products separately, WD-40 offers at an attractive price a pack containing the 3 products dedicated to the maintenance of the motorcycle.

This special motorcycle st pack made up of 3 sprays:

• Chain Cleaner
• Chain lubricant
• Silicone glow

The history of the name WD-40

The W-40 was invented in California on the San-Diego side by a team of 3 chemists led by Norm Larsent.
In 1953, the team was working for NASA on the development of a water-repellent product to protect the Atlas missile (the first American-designed intercontinental ballistic missile) from corrosion and rust.
After 40 tests, Larsen and his team finally managed to manufacture the “miracle product” capable of protecting against corrosion with a simple spray (the formula of which is up-to-date, still kept secret), giving the product its name at the same time: WD-40.
40 for the 40 attempts to develop and WD for Water Displacement (humidity hunter)

Info:

You may notice on some images several types of cap color on WD-40 sprays.

These are indeed the same goods, but it should be noted that the American brand recently adopted a new packaging for the special motorcycle products red cap instead of yellow for the special motorcycle products) and new illustration drawings

Tips for using the WD-40 for motorcycles

1: Gripping a screw

If it is commonly called degrippant, This is not by chance. One of the major functions of the WD-is indeed to help clear blocked parts (by rust or moisture oxidation). So if you have on your bike a screw or a recalcitrant nut think about spraying generously on the net and the head of the screw blocked. Patent for a few minutes and generally, you will then be able to loosen this screw (nut) more easily.

2 : Reviving and protecting your plastics

After cleaning your bike, you can apply multifunction wd-40 (by soaking a soft cloth) to protect your plastics and revive a little the colors of your decoration. It also reduces the visibility of scratches.

3 : Anti-mud

If you need to ride in wet weather, you can spray WD-40 to inside your mudguards (Be careful not to put them on the brake discs). By doing this, you will prevent the mud from (too) sticking inside the mudguards.

4 : Remove traces of glue

If you have glue residues (e.g. from an old deco kit) on your plastics and you do not have a brake cleaner on hand (perfect for removing these stubborn traces), the WD40 will do the trick to allow you to remove glue residues. Just think about degreasing your plastic, because the WD-40 leaves a greasy protective film.

5 : Remove traces of fat

Often on the rims and oscillating arm, there are traces of grease (from the lubrication of your chain) quite resistant even to the high-pressure cleaner. Here too, a good shot of multifunctional WD40, a cloth and a little elbow oil and we manage to overcome these traces of grease.