All-weather riders: protecting your bike?

[rboe]

One odd thing I learned from my astronomy hobby: Any cleaning is abrasive. Unless you use this very expensive spritz you spray on, dry, the peal. Washing is just an abrasive slurry; while good for some surfaces some times (headers) it's nasty on paint and plastics and your instrument glass.

The desert dust in the Phoenix area is especially nasty.

So I don't clean all that often. Bikes or cars.