Cleaning my bike

[Globalti]

This guy seems to have found the solution....pun intended
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NO NO NO! Never clean a bike upside-down; water will run into the steerer bearings.

In all seriousness, as long as you don't scratch the plastic bath, what's wrong with this?

 

[Yellow Fang]

I washed my bike in the bath, but it is not satisfactory. My plumbing gets blocked enough as it is without shoving clods of earth and bits of old leaves down the plug hole.

 

[Globalti]

Well, no, I wouldn't wash a mountain bike like that! That pic was taken in a hotel after a particulary wet and salty ride.

 

[palinurus]

I live in a flat on the top floor, so I have difficulty cleaning my bike. I was wondering about getting some device that you can fill up with water, which I could use to hose my bike down in the back yard. Is there something like this? I think I bought something before, but it turned out not to be suitable. I think it had t o be connected to a an outside tap and there wasn't one.

When I was riding cyclocross I bought a hand-operated weedsprayer from B&Q to remove mud from the bike after races (at the time I lived in a third-floor flat). It was pretty good (the bike was often very muddy). I didn't have an outside tap- I filled it upstairs with warm water and carried it down along with a bucket containing some rags and stuff.

 

[phantasmagoriana]

My bike won't fit in the bath. (I discovered this after a particularly muddy ride yesterday!)

 

[Psycolist]

Got to support the bucket of warm soapy water and wash mit. Anything using gravity to feed water wont give enough flow to do any more than rinse the soap off, certainly not jet the muck off. The bottles you pump up to get pressure and squirt out water, IMHO, need refilling so often, they are not really very practicable.

 

[Arrowfoot]

Remove front wheel and put it in the shower or bath.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I always use a padded glove when washing a bike. There are some pretty sharp bits on bikes that can cause cuts and nips when you're using a wet soapy cloth to clean your bike.

 

[JMAG]

Sorted

www.tanks-direct.co.uk/mobile_trailer_bowsers/1125_litre_(250_gallon)_140_bar_highway_pressure_washer?gclid=CLvI2qPa1MMCFQTlwgodB7sA8g

 

[si_c]

NO NO NO! Never clean a bike upside-down; water will run into the steerer bearings.

In all seriousness, as long as you don't scratch the plastic bath, what's wrong with this?

I don't like my wife angry is what's wrong with that

 

[Turdus philomelos]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hozelock-Ltd-4140A0000-Porta-Shower/dp/B001ULCILM

We use this for rinsing down bikes, does the trick.