Cleaning bike after each ride??
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clean it properly after every ride - only takes half an hour, what's the big deal? - the longer you leave the more of a job it becomes when you do finally get around to it!0
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took me about 15 minutes to go from this
to this
I wouldn't dream of putting my bike away as dirty as it was.0 -
Northwind wrote:Heh, my kraken had some mud issues, so I took to carrying an empty 500ml bottle with a "sports cap" on, just an empty water bottle... Filled it from a river or reservoir and used it to squirt the mud out of the mechs and brakes every so often. Sounds absolutely ridiculous but it really frees things up, not to mention reducing wear and tear. It hurts my soul to hear all those expensive drivetrain bits and pads scraaaaaaape.
I hadn't though of that, will make sure that I take a bottle next time, Cheers for the heads-up.0 -
Mancunianfightingcat wrote:took me about 15 minutes to go from this
I wouldn't dream of putting my bike away as dirty as it was.
Love your fence-hanger device, I never though of that!Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.
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The way I see it is that cleaning is a pain in the ass, but the damage done from not cleaning is worse and expensive.
I hate cleaning (its one of the things that can really put me off of the idea of riding some times) but what i really don't want to happen is parts to fail and the costs to rise up.
My road bike come commuter has had a serious lack of cleaning of late and a lot of the cost that it needs when i service it in the spring was avoidable. The mountain bike on the other hand simply needs routine servicing done.Giant TCR advanced 2 (Summer/race)
Merlin single malt fixie (Commuter/winter/training)
Trek superfly 7 (Summer XC)
Giant Yukon singlespeed conversion (winter MTB/Ice/snow)
Carrera virtuoso - RIP0 -
Robmanic1 wrote:
Love your fence-hanger device, I never though of that!
Optical illusion! I have a self levitating bike!0 -
Mancunianfightingcat wrote:Robmanic1 wrote:
Love your fence-hanger device, I never though of that!
Optical illusion! I have a self levitating bike!
Ah, one of those fan-dangled, helium filled frames eh? Why is it not tethered to something heavy then?Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.
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the mud is keeping it in a state of equilibrium.
in the second photo the 'fence hanger' is stopping it floating away0
