tdr1nka
Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Before I had kids I would take an hour out of every weekend to give my bike a general service and apart from cable brakeages and puctures my hybrid rat MTB ran like a dream for years, I'd take it to a big car wash nearby early in the morning and scrub the bike down with detergent and the scrubby wand thing then ride it home and clean and repack the all the bearings........
Now that I have children, my trusty Trek 850 runs with all the grace and smoothness of a Ukrainian Tractor and is only used for the school run. The KMX gets a tweak here and there and has been lovingly promised a complete overhaul come the spring. Now my daughter is 5 I'm going to start teaching her how to maintain a bike(*thinks* her generation need never know the joy that was cotter pins, humanity is advancing!).
Wet bikes are left in the hall on a run of old carpet tiles to dry. I used to have a 2' x 5' strip of pond liner which did the job just as well.
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Now that I have children, my trusty Trek 850 runs with all the grace and smoothness of a Ukrainian Tractor and is only used for the school run. The KMX gets a tweak here and there and has been lovingly promised a complete overhaul come the spring. Now my daughter is 5 I'm going to start teaching her how to maintain a bike(*thinks* her generation need never know the joy that was cotter pins, humanity is advancing!).
Wet bikes are left in the hall on a run of old carpet tiles to dry. I used to have a 2' x 5' strip of pond liner which did the job just as well.
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