How to clean bike cleaning tools?

Anonymous

Well, one of my bike specific brushes has been making my bike dirtier then to begin with, then I realised it was because there is bike chain oil and muck on it, so i thought, well I'll just clean it off, so i used some kitchen degreaser, didn't work, used some toilet cleaner, didn't work!

how the hell can I clean it so I can then clean my bike!?!? have you ever had this problem?

njee20

Soak in white spirit?

Anonymous

njee20 wrote:

Soak in white spirit?

Can white spirit be reused?

cee

I have 3 brushes...

a big brush which goes nowhere near oily parts.
a medium sized brish...that might catch a little oil..
a small brush (with that jaggy sprocket cleaner thingy on it) which only gets used on oil bits.

I guess you could try a bike style degreaser spray to clean it?

easier not to get your big washy brush oily in the first place.

suzyb

I've found Cif works. In fact it's the only thing I've found takes the black crud off things.

stumpyjon

Sounds like you're letting your bike get rather mucky. I tend to find my brush are spotless after bike cleaning since they to have been soaked in cleaner.

Chunkers1980

Manky white spirit - stick it through a coffee filter.....

butcher of bakersfield

suzyb wrote:

I've found Cif works. In fact it's the only thing I've found takes the black crud off things.

I tried it on the alloys on the car. It took the paint off!

allthegearnoidea

i leave my cassette brush (stiff bristles alloy wheel brush) in a pot of strong all purpose cleaner mixed with some degreaser,
had no issues with it in over a year,