Bike cleaning with cold water

canoas

Got a new kitchen, live in a terraced house, have an outside tap with cold water. There's a slip road at the back of houses on my street where I access my garden garage with bike,now my wife won't let me go in the new kitchen when washing my bikes and i only have a cold water outside tap..................is cold water sufficient to wash a bike for winter/summer? anyone tried? I've always used warm water.

orlok

canoas wrote:

Got a new kitchen, live in a terraced house, have an outside tap with cold water. There's a slip road at the back of houses on my street where I access my garden garage with bike,now my wife won't let me go in the new kitchen when washing my bikes and i only have a cold water outside tap..................is cold water sufficient to wash a bike for winter/summer? anyone tried? I've always used warm water.

Are you crazy to wash your bike with cold water, it will pick a cold outside.!

whyamihere

Put hot water in a bucket and take it outside.

big_harv

I always manage with muc off and cold water. Occasionally a hose but only VERY gently.

manglier

Never used warm water to wash a bike in more than 50 years.

Darius_Jedburgh

This has just got to be a troll.

The answer is yes, because if you use warm water it will melt the snowflake who asked the question.

Presumably the bike never goes out in the rain.

big_harv

None of those supermarket/ car park car valet places use hot water do they?

svetty

canoas wrote:

my wife won't let me

There's your problem right there....

ugo.santalucia

whyamihere wrote:

Put hot water in a bucket and take it outside.

+1

ayjaycee

Is the OP Bungle in disguise?

cougie

You need a better wife. Or do it when she's not in.

canoas

cougie wrote:

You need a better wife. Or do it when she's not in.

lol.....but pay the consequences when she gets back! you know I'll leave marks somehow!

canoas

ugo.santalucia wrote:

whyamihere wrote:

Put hot water in a bucket and take it outside.

+1

this seems the only logical solution to me and was my thoughts to begin with, even maybe boil water in a jug mix with outside cold.

canoas

I've looked at the technical information product page on Muc Off's site and there is no mention of using either cold or warm water other than fresh clean water. I've mailed them, I'm interested to see their reply.

Darius_Jedburgh

If it talks like s snowflake and acts like a snowflake then it will be a snowflake.

One of the stupidest threads on any forum...ever.

I'm surprised OP has managed to find himself a wife. Or did mummy do it for him?

imposter2.0

canoas wrote:

I've looked at the technical information product page on Muc Off's site and there is no mention of using either cold or warm water other than fresh clean water. I've mailed them, I'm interested to see their reply.

Don't forget to ask them whether they recommend holding the sponge in your left hand, or your right hand...

Alejandrosdog

canoas wrote:

Got a new kitchen, live in a terraced house, have an outside tap with cold water. There's a slip road at the back of houses on my street where I access my garden garage with bike,now my wife won't let me go in the new kitchen when washing my bikes and i only have a cold water outside tap..................is cold water sufficient to wash a bike for winter/summer? anyone tried? I've always used warm water.

Aww hen, it will make your hands cold.

tomb57

Sorry had to leave the forum and think about this , is this question real ?...?
Or have I slipped into a parallel universe I hadn’t known about.
Oh yes sorry it’s the road forum should have known .
Sorry

Darius_Jedburgh

Tomb57 wrote:

Sorry had to leave the forum and think about this , is this question real ?...?
Or have I slipped into a parallel universe I hadn’t known about.
Oh yes sorry it’s the road forum should have known .
Sorry

Don't worry.
The OP is a product of Tony Blair's Education, Education, Education system. He knows fxxx all about sxx all but he's always right.
He'll be on Facebook as we speak complaining that he gets no help.

What's the betting he has a wispy hipster beard and wears skin tight denim?

photonic69

Man up son!! Have you not got a bathroom to clean it in?

jgsi

Get yourself a Hozelock pressure garden sprayer 7liter is good enough.
Boil the kettle.
Fill the sprayer with some of ASDA's best washing up liquid, put in a bit of cold and top with very hot water.
Instant pressure wash to get the ride gunk off without resource to also using a chemical such as MucOff.
The pressure spray is not enough to kill grease out of bearings.

cougie

I really don't think hot or cold water makes a blind bit of difference to the bike. But I wash my bike straight after my Sunday ride and warm water is my preference. Especially on days like today where it's felt like 2 degrees the whole day. Cold water after a winter ride ? No thanks.

webboo

I was always told if you had the energy to clean your bike after a ride. You hadn’t gone far or hard enough.

cougie

I know from experience that you have to man up and do it whilst it's fresh or it's much worse getting off the next day and the damage has started to be done.

webboo

I’m usually too f*cked to care.

Darius_Jedburgh

I suspect that OP's bike when "dirty" is cleaner than my bike when clean!

Alejandrosdog

Franco di Banco wrote:

I suspect that OP's bike when "dirty" is cleaner than my bike when clean!

I suspect the op sucks cranks

Darius_Jedburgh

So. What did Muck Off say?
Hot or cold?
Or did they say Muck Off?

term1te

Doesn't carbon fibre dissolve in warm water? I wouldn't risk it.

slowbike

Man the f up - get the wife to clean it whilst you have a beer ... problem solved!

edward.s

Poke a hole through the kitchen wall and install an outside hot tap. Problem solved.