raleighnut
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Every year one or sometimes two bikes get totally stripped down and rebuilt after a really good clean and polish of the frame, this year it was the Ridgebacks turn,
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If you’re gonna do it anyway, why not make it Before a mechanical happens. You’ve basically washed it either way, but not experienced a mechanical.As the OP - and someone who voted no in my own poll - feel obliged to let you know been out on my cx today and can't shift onto big ring now, almost certainly due to accumulate crud! So, whilst I know it'll still be filthy again tomorrow, I do actually feel now is the time for a clean. Maybe I should put a third option on poll: "Maybe, but only when forced into it by mechanical mishap!"
Man I don't know how you lot live with yourselves! :-)
My main bike gets washed after every ride and every month or so it gets deep cleaned and waxed.
But it is white and shows every single speck of dirt and I can't stand it.
My commuter/MTB gets a good was every week or after a ride if the weather has been horrible and I've picked up loads of crap.
And I don't think I'm much of a neat freak either, it just means I'm reducing the chance of failures curtailing my ride.