What Did I Do Wrong?

[jober]

Spent over an hour washing my scoot in the morning, blow dried it with my leaf blower. Putted around for about 1/2 in the garage, got ready, then went for a ride. I spent alot of time making the WWW's white.

Stopped about 30 mins and noticed black brake dust/water all over dried up all over my WWW's!!$@$%%#

How can I prevent this after washing my bike each time? I always make sure I clean the wheels, brake rotors, flush the calipers out with water (tons of black water comes out when I do that every time).

HELP?

[Fourcats]

I put the bike on the lift and use Wesley's Bleach White on the WWWs.

...You didn't do anything "wrong", your just not finished.

[petrock]

Water gets into the most unlikely places. Probably came from the inside fender or the spoke nipples or the wheel hub or a puddle you hit on the ride.

two potential solutions come to mind:

1) Instead of cleaning the white walls before your first ride, ride the bike around the block first and then clean the white walls.
2) Get over it and ride, nobody will notice the marks when the wheels are spinning down the road.

[nightrob]

Get some aeroclean or trike and spray the calipers/pads after the washing. This will chase all of the water and other crap that is in there out and leave them dry.

[Hawg Man]

I always had the same problem with my Road King - until I changed the pads.
Harley factory pads are notorious for making a lot of dust.
When the bike's dry, a lot of it just blows away.
When it still has some water/moisture on it, the air-borne dust sticks to it like a magnet.
Even after using the leaf blower, the porous WW's retain some moisture until you've ridden a ways or the bike sits long enough for them to completely dry.
I swapped out to the Lyndall "Z" pads and haven't had the problem since.
And the Lyndalls stop a LOT better than the factory pads, especially in the rain.

['05Train]

Yup, Lyndall Z+ pads.

[DR_DEUCE]

That dusting is most definetely coming from brake dust buildup in the calipers. You'll have to clean them real good, use brake cleaner and some pipe cleaners to reach. You can switch brake pads to the Lyndall Z pads, I replaced my gals rear pads with them and there is virtually ZERO dusting. When you are in the calipers while replacing the pads, take the time to do a very good cleaning......if you get dust after the Z pads, it's from the OLD pads!!!!

[hbmc]

I bet it is your neighbors willing the dust on there as you blow dry your bike like a gardener on Saturday morning. They called and asked that you wipe it down instead of hosing it down...