Washing your bike can be a Zenlike experience, or a wicked, time-wasting pain in the butt. It all depends on your frame of mind, and of course having the right wash-day accessories.
To help propel you toward wash-bucket nirvana, might I suggest the Suzuki Care Kit? Suzuki has made the Saturday-morning bath ritual—the motorcycle's, not yours—easier by gathering up nearly everything you need except the water in one package. There's a good-sized plastic wash bucket imprinted with the Suzuki logo so you won't confuse it with the household scrub tub, a quart of motorcycle wash, a sheepskin wash mitt, a drying chamois and a spray bottle of detailer to give your bike that showroom shine. Suzuki even tosses in a dust brush to keep your bike looking sharp between ablutions, and a gen-u-wine Suzuki key fob, though I suppose if you ride something other than a Suzuki you can use it as a bookmark or whatever.
For those of you who are hygienically challenged, at least motorcyclewise, Suzuki has thoughtfully included a concise set of instructions, complete with an itemized parts list. Making the care kit even more economically attractive is an included $2 mail-in rebate coupon.
The Care Kit retails for $40 and is available through any Suzuki dealer. Like my buddy Wendell says, "For that price you can't afford to leave it on the shelf."
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