Winterising

essex-commuter

Good word huh!

A cycle club member posted on our club forum that he covers all the bolts / brackets / etc. on his bike with vaseline during the winter to prevent rusting or oxidisation. I cleaned my bike fully a couple of weeks ago and done this, filling up the allen bolt heads with vaseline, smearing it on brackets etc. I'm thinking it was a really good idea, when I come to clean it the vas should just wash away and I can apply more.

The areas I covered have got a fine layer of dust stuck to them now but that doesn't pose a problem to me, I quite like the 'well used' look on my commuter.

Is there a reason this is a bad idea?

gtvlusso

Used to do this, but it generally washes out and is a fecking mess when you need to undo something.

Would coat all bolt threads and seat post (where it goes into the seat tube) in copper grease though - stops seizing.

SimonAH

+1 Coppaslip is worth it's weight in gold when it comes to stopping things siezing up.

asprilla

The only problem with copper grease is that you can't clean it, you can only spread it across more surfaces; it's on my allen keys, spanners, overshoes, spd shoes and every garage cloth / beer towel I own.

Wiping it somehow manages to get it on the cloth with out actually removing it from whatever you were cleaning. The stuff just multiplies.

WesternWay

Asprilla wrote:

The only problem with copper grease is that you can't clean it, you can only spread it across more surfaces; it's on my allen keys, spanners, overshoes, spd shoes and every garage cloth / beer towel I own.

Wiping it somehow manages to get it on the cloth with out actually removing it from whatever you were cleaning. The stuff just multiplies.

+1