I Can Tell Everything About You By Your Harley
Wayne Braddock
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40 years in the shop, in Braddock's Black Book:
👉 https://braddocksblackbook.lovable.app
The dealer charges you a fortune to make your Harley look new again — and half of what they do, you can do at home with a three-dollar bottle of hydrogen peroxide. After 40 years turning wrenches, I put together 15 peroxide tricks that clean, brighten, and protect your bike better than the overpriced detail package, and the dealers would rather you never found out.
We go through the ones that actually work: bringing a yellowed, foggy headlight lens back to crystal clear, whitening dingy whitewall tires, wiping bug guts and bird droppings off your paint without scratching it, killing mildew and mold on a leather seat or a bike cover, cleaning battery-area corrosion and grimy chrome, disinfecting a fresh scrape on the workbench — all with the same brown bottle sitting in your bathroom cabinet right now. Simple, cheap, and it adds up to real money over a season.
Now let me be straight with you, because I am not going to sell you snake oil. Peroxide is a cleaner and a brightener, not a miracle. It will not remove rust from chrome, and it will not fix anything mechanical — those are different jobs, and I will tell you exactly where its limits are so you do not damage anything. Always test on a small hidden spot first, keep it off fresh scratches in the clear coat, and rinse when you are done.
Tell me down in the comments which trick surprised you the most, and what your own go-to cheap fix is — I read every one.
DISCLAIMER: This video is for general information only. Some visuals are AI-assisted illustrations. Test any product on a small hidden area first, follow the product's safety directions, wear gloves and eye protection, and when in doubt use a product made for the job. Every finish and model is different. Ride safe.
#HarleyDavidson #HarleyMaintenance #Motorcycle #VTwin #DIYMechanic #HydrogenPeroxide #BikeCleaning #Harley #GarageHacks #RideSafe
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I Can Tell Everything About You By Your Harley
Wayne Braddock
6,950 views
40 years in the shop, in Braddock's Black Book:
👉 https://braddocksblackbook.lovable.app
The dealer charges you a fortune to make your Harley look new again — and half of what they do, you can do at home with a three-dollar bottle of hydrogen peroxide. After 40 years turning wrenches, I put together 15 peroxide tricks that clean, brighten, and protect your bike better than the overpriced detail package, and the dealers would rather you never found out.
We go through the ones that actually work: bringing a yellowed, foggy headlight lens back to crystal clear, whitening dingy whitewall tires, wiping bug guts and bird droppings off your paint without scratching it, killing mildew and mold on a leather seat or a bike cover, cleaning battery-area corrosion and grimy chrome, disinfecting a fresh scrape on the workbench — all with the same brown bottle sitting in your bathroom cabinet right now. Simple, cheap, and it adds up to real money over a season.
Now let me be straight with you, because I am not going to sell you snake oil. Peroxide is a cleaner and a brightener, not a miracle. It will not remove rust from chrome, and it will not fix anything mechanical — those are different jobs, and I will tell you exactly where its limits are so you do not damage anything. Always test on a small hidden spot first, keep it off fresh scratches in the clear coat, and rinse when you are done.
Tell me down in the comments which trick surprised you the most, and what your own go-to cheap fix is — I read every one.
DISCLAIMER: This video is for general information only. Some visuals are AI-assisted illustrations. Test any product on a small hidden area first, follow the product's safety directions, wear gloves and eye protection, and when in doubt use a product made for the job. Every finish and model is different. Ride safe.
#HarleyDavidson #HarleyMaintenance #Motorcycle #VTwin #DIYMechanic #HydrogenPeroxide #BikeCleaning #Harley #GarageHacks #RideSafe
Stay safe wind brother’s. Thanks for sharing your journey of 40 years of wrenching on Harley’s! 👍