Keeping your jacket clean

Hi


What is the best thing for cleaning your leather jacket which does not leave it feeling like a greasy cloth

 

Baby wipes?

 

baby wipes would damage the leather ... i use neutral boot polish as many leather jkts are multi coloured and boot polish is the best for leather in my opinion

buy kiwi only ... best you can buy

 

shoe polish sounds like a good idea, but what would you clean the leather with in the first place, removing things like traffic grime squashed fly's and the odd pigeon.

 

Lol a pigeon once flew into my helmet when I was on my PX a few years ago, nearly took my head off as I was doin about 40.

 

I had a full size male duck hit me on the helmet on the main motorway once, I was doing a bit more than 40, and it nearly took my head off too, it left an oily imprint of the whole bird around 1/2 of the helmet,
I saw the bird in one blink and it hit my head in the next

 

That's quackers.

 

Lol be a good idea to put a layer of boot polish on from new (not removing it) I clean flys off when I am "polishing" my jacket and Aslong as its not a big juicy fly your fine

But still wouldn't put any harsh chemicals on it as most high quality bike leathers are 100% leather

All my bike jackets are hand me downs apart from 1... I dont care as they are expensive

 

I use dubbin or saddle soap to clean my leather Belstaff and Irwin flying jackets. dubbin keeps the leather supple and stops the leather from drying out and cracking. Saddle soap (as used for horse saddles) removes the dirt but keeps the oils in the leather so that it doesn't dry out. I learned this from my Dad when he used to clean and polish his boots when he was in the Army.

NEVER use soap or harsh detergents on leather, it never ends well.

 

Leatherfood

 

Leatherfood is similar to dubbin. We might even be talking about the same thing. Dubbin is the old British Army name for it and Leatherfood is probably the posh poncey name for it nowadays.

 

Does it taste good?

 

I made the mistake of washing the fly's and all of that blood and muck off my jacket once with a hosepipe in my back garden and the jacket went like a piece of hardboard, I can hear the fly's laughing now

 

Plus one for Merlin. Dubbin is the wasps nipples. It will feel greasy at first, but it really is the stuff to use.

 

'Leatherfood' is the poncey upmarket name given to dubbin, so that when Mrs. Farquhar-Johnson goes into the shop to buy some for the saddle for Sparkles, her daughter Bunty's pony, it doesn't sound like she is asking for some deviant sexual practice in a 'Carry On' film..

"My good man, I'd like a really good dubbin, if you would be so kind."

You get the idea.

 

Bunty is a minx. She loves 'dubbiń. Ever go out with a 'horsey' girl? Blimey!

 

I believe that Bunty does like a good hard ride, just like us...

 

You're darn tootin'.