Baby Wipes

[Mile195]

I only buy baby wipes for any camping trips where there's not going to be any showers... This is mostly for, but not limited to, festivals. If anyone has ever tried to use a shower at a festival after the first day, then you will almost certainly understand this!...

I use Muc-Off to clean my bike though. Their degreaser works stunningly well on anything that gets caked in oil residue. I use the all-purpose cleaner to the bits that don't get covered in oil. Been using it on the bike and the motorbike for years - I can't really imagine baby wipes doing the job to quite the same standard...

 

[goo_mason]

Baby wipes do a stunning job of getting oil, crud and grease off a bike / components. I find them superior to any degreasing fluids I've ever used and less messy too. You can clean the oil off your hands with baby wipes just as effectively as you can with Swarfega. so as well as being excellent bike cleaners they're great to keep in your rucksack for cleaning your hands after any on-the-road repairs.

 

[TheDoctor]

What's all this weird 'washing bikes' stuff you lot are wibbling on about?
Sickos!

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

What's all this weird 'washing bikes' stuff you lot are wibbling on about?
Sickos!

It's what's taking 2 hours out of my life after each one of your route choices!!

 

[TheDoctor]

Little lanes in winter are muddy. That's the way of things. I could take us through a ford next time. Give the bike a rinse at least...

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Little lanes in winter are muddy. That's the way of things. I could take us through a ford next time. Give the bike a rinse at least...

My bike had enough "rinsing" for one winter thank you! The muddy little lanes are absolutely fine!!

 

[Sandra6]

If you don't have children you won't understand the wonder that is a baby wipe.
They are magical wipes that can be used for everything, you can clean things up with them, occupy children with them and throw them at people (in the packet) when they are not occupying themselves or cleaning things.
I haven't had a baby in the house for several years (youngest is 8 on wednesday) but I still routinely buy baby wipes and use them. I wipe my hands on them, clean the sofa with them, mop up spills with them, keep them in the car. I haven't used them on the bike yet, but I'm going to now.

 

[ianrauk]

If you don't have children you won't understand the wonder that is a baby wipe.
They are magical wipes that can be used for everything, you can clean things up with them, occupy children with them and throw them at people (in the packet) when they are not occupying themselves or cleaning things.
I haven't had a baby in the house for several years (youngest is 8 on wednesday) but I still routinely buy baby wipes and use them. I wipe my hands on them, clean the sofa with them, mop up spills with them, keep them in the car. I haven't used them on the bike yet, but I'm going to now.

Agreed.
My little one is three and Mrs Ian buys them in bulk and find ourselves using them for loads of cleaning duties.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

If you don't have children you won't understand the wonder that is a baby wipe.
They are magical wipes that can be used for everything, you can clean things up with them, occupy children with them and throw them at people (in the packet) when they are not occupying themselves or cleaning things.
I haven't had a baby in the house for several years (youngest is 8 on wednesday) but I still routinely buy baby wipes and use them. I wipe my hands on them, clean the sofa with them, mop up spills with them, keep them in the car. I haven't used them on the bike yet, but I'm going to now.

nope still don't get it and I raised my brother & sister doing everything except the breast feeding (breast milk was in the freezer, you just defrosted it, put it in a bottle and then fed them instead) and that included A&E visits, operations (my little sister lost her hearing when she was 18 months old and has needed repeated skin grafts over the years to maintain some hearing) and holidays (to the point where their parents & my other brother would be in one car & they would be in the car I was driving - so done the stopping on the motorway hardshoulder for the pee stops, the yelling at them for taking their seatbelt off yet again (police traffic officers can be so very useful at times!), my sister prefering to sleep in my bed (& wet it) and been through the heartache of them going to primary school and changing...

still don't get cleaning a bike down with baby wipes though.

I will, however, point out that I was eternally grateful for my mother deciding to go over to disposable nappies! I hated cleaning the Terry nappies.

 

[goo_mason]

I live in a top-floor flat,so I have no nice garden or spot outside the door to wash the bike. Cleaning the bike is a choice between standing it in the bath & getting a bad back stooping & twisting myself as I try to clean it, or putting it up on the workstand and using babywipes. Guess which one wins?

 

[Nearly there]

I remember the look i got first time I asked the wife to pick some baby wipes up considering my kids are teenagers

 

[Maz]

I use Sudocrem as a seatpost anti-seize compound.

 

[Sandra6]

sudocrem is of course just as magical as babywipes and can be used for anything that ails you. I swear I could cure a decapitation if I had a big enough jar.

 

[yello]

I use Sudocrem as a seatpost anti-seize compound.

You should see what I use as a chamois cream.