Novus 2 product plug

[robertbarr]

I made the mistake of riding my bike to work. There's a motorcycle parking area, populated with (obviously) morons. I've never had a bike messed with before, but on Monday some genital wart decided to wipe down my Plexifairing III for me -- completely dry, using (apparently) a paper towel.

Brand new Plexifairing, and it was scratched beyond belief. The guy wiped vertically and horizontally, so riding into the sun made it look like 45 different tic-tac-toe games on my fairing. Man, was I PO-ed.

I've tried other plexiglass cleaning / polishing products that were useless, including Blue Magic. Pretty disgusted.

I did a search here and found a lot of products recommended, but Novus 2 was common and had the strongest endorsements. I ordered some on eBay along with the Novus microfiber cloths, noting that everything about this product sounds like snake oil.

It arrived today, and I tried it on the freshly washed 'patient', and I'd have to say the results are remarkable. All but the deepest of those scratches are gone, and there's none of the hazing and 'film' appearance I got with other products over the years. A product that really works like it's advertised to! Who would have thought?

Anyway, it works so well that I'm going to clean up my other Plexifairing too, a 7-year-old unit, on my Nighthawk. It's not in too bad of shape after 7 seasons, but as good as the Bandit's turned out, there's no reason not to! I'm really pleased.

[bonanzadave]

W(who)TF would wipe down someone elses windscreen ???????


Ive been working with Dean at Novus for years. I make Acrylic Airplane windows. He hooks me up with all sorts of samples we take to the Airplane conventions. He has a bunch of #1, #2 & #3 samples + the wipes I need to pick up to take to Oshkosh. Im giving a spiel on Installing and Maintaining Windows at the Airshow.

Yes, thats me....

[bwringer]

You did make this turd (or his surviving family members) pay for the polish kit, right?

[robertbarr]

You did make this turd (or his surviving family members) pay for the polish kit, right?

Sadly, there's no way to identify the culprit.

I can't count how many times I've left a Jap bike parked at poker runs and the like, where you'll find actual animosity toward Asian bikes, without a single incident. I can leave my key in the ignition, gloves on the seat, GPS unit in its mount, you name it, it doesn't get messed with.

At this place, that's too much to ask for.

I've always been an admirer of PT Barnum, and if a marketer can convince an average dupe to purchase snake oil (and play by the rules), well, he wins. Suckers generally get what they deserve when something is billed as being too good to be true. When I read all the descriptions of the various plexiglass polishing products, I felt that I was deeply into the PT Barnum woods -- and I was buying anyhow, against my own admonitions. I even went for the special 'microfiber cloths' to go with the Novus.

So -- I anticipated disappointment, and it was a really pleasant surprise to find a product that actually does what it's billed to do. This stuff works great. RTFM, of course. There are still a few scratches that will require the #3 first to knock them down, but I'd say 98% of them are simply gone.

Yeah, I just can't quite fathom why someone would do this. Maybe they really admired the bike, and wanted to help out (?)... If they wanted to be truly malicious, I guess there'd be gouges in the fuel tank. I think they were just amazingly stupid and presumptuous. I mean, in most circles, you're safer messing with a man's wife than his bike, and that's the way it should be.