Dirty Bike

[Deleted member 1258]

Shiny bikes are the fastest................

Are they? I always thought the speed came from the rider not the bike, unless you fit an engine of course.

 

[snorri]

Some people should buy bikes two at a time, one to use and one to hang on the wall in the best room in the house.

 

[Roadrunner78]

I do confess. My bikes are spotless I'm a bit OCD I think. My bike that is used daily is cleaner than my car. One of my co workers has a farm road to trek down every day. He had about 2ibs of mud on it.

The bike companys don't go through all that research and effort to make your bike as light as possible for you to add 2ibs of mud! .

 

[martint235]

What's this obsession with clean bikes all about? We buy our bikes to be ridden, don't we? I ride my bike and it gets dirty, when it gets that dirty its slowing me down then I will show it the soapy water.

Now that is a man after my own heart

Does this mean the revolution has finally started?

 

[martint235]

I do confess. My bikes are spotless I'm a bit OCD I think. My bike that is used daily is cleaner than my car. One of my co workers has a farm road to trek down every day. He had about 2ibs of mud on it.

The bike companys don't go through all that research and effort to make your bike as light as possible for you to add 2ibs of mud! .

But you are willing to add 168lbs of human (at a guess, I add significantly more!!!)

 

[rodgy-dodge]

It doesn't seem to matter what ever the weather conditions are like I always seem to get dirty

 

[XmisterIS]

My bling bike got covered in carp a couple of weekends ago, on just a 19 mile spin - I did go down lots of little lanes, not far from the house, but 1900 ft of climbing in that short distance. Was fun. Just wash it at the end.

Where were you riding for it to get covered in carp?!! Sounds a little surreal ...

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I have bought one of those 3 litre garden spray pressure things which I am looking forward to using the next time my bikes gets mucky.

be careful with that. water forced at pressure into wheel hubs, bottom brackets and headset races can cause corrosion of the bearings. add the pedal axle hubs to that list too.