How to clean your bike like a pro

[uclown2002]

I think I have a problem! I'm starting to enjoy cleaning my bike. Is there a known cure?

 

[ColinJ]

I think I have a problem! I'm starting to enjoy cleaning my bike. Is there a known cure?

There are 4 effective cures:

1. The only cure guaranteed to be 100% effective is to dispose of the bike. You could sell it, give it away, lock it up inadequately in a public place, or destroy it in a random act of cycle violence.
2. A less traumatic cure is to only ride the bike in desert regions where no water is available for cleaning it.
3. The most sensible option is to be careful not to ride it in mucky conditions.
4. You could always wall-mount the bike and keep it as an engineered sculpture?

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Sorry to my wife but this is how I clean mine

In the Shower!

 

[Peter Armstrong]

[QUOTE 2897462, member: 259"]You're going to get burnt at the stake for suggesting putting it in there upside down. [/quote]

Ha Ha, oops

 

[Rob3rt]

Sorry to my wife but this is how I clean mine

In the Shower!

Stupid idea that! Turning it upside down so the dirt and water drips down over the handlebars and any gadgets you have not removed. Take the wheels off and put it in right way up! Wash from contact points downward.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I feel sorry for those shifters

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Stupid idea that! Turning it upside down so the dirt and water drips down over the handlebars and any gadgets you have not removed. Take the wheels off and put it in right way up!

What Gadgets?

 

[Rob3rt]

What Gadgets?

Lights...

Regardless, you are going to rinse dirt and grease up the frame. Do it other way up and the dirtiest parts don't drip up over the cleaner parts.

 

[Dusty Bin]

If you scrub hard enough, the red might come off those tyres............hopefully............

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Lights...

Lights are gadgets? What year are you from?

 

[Tin Pot]

Sorry to my wife but this is how I clean mine

In the Shower!

Witch! Witch!

Burn her! Burn her!

 

[wisdom]

Kinda like the little jockey wheel in the video for cleaning the chain.And keeping it in line.
I've never seen those for sale.

 

[uclown2002]

Kinda like the little jockey wheel in the video for cleaning the chain.And keeping it in line.
I've never seen those for sale.

I just bought one

 

[MontyVeda]

I use a 5 litre garden sprayer a bit like this one ...

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I don't have a water supply in my back yard so this is a convenient alternative for me when I clean my bike. It uses a much lower pressure than those pressure washers so there is less chance of stripping grease and lube out of bearings.

i bought one of those with the same idea in mind... no chance of it stripping grease or lube out of the bearings because it's got no chance of shifting mud either

 

[wisdom]

It wasnt one of those chain cleaning devices. It just looked like a blue jockey wheel.dont know what its called though