Possible Clues:

• Swabbed
• Did a swab's job
• Power in motorbike is soaked up
• Took a spill, say?
• Cleaned quietly inside vehicle
• Swabbed (floor)
• Handled the last details of, with 'up'
• Cleaned (the decks)
• Wiped the floor with them in the end going around father and writer
• Having power in two-wheeler cleaned up