In praise of wet wipes.

[steveindenmark]

I have always used rain water to clean my bike and recently someone suggested wet wipes and so I gave it a go.

What a great idea. For years I have been cutting up cloth into strips to reach those inexcessable places on the bike. Not with wet wipes. They easily get into all the nooks and crannies. They easily slide between the links on the chain and gets all the gunk out. Even when the chain looks clean.

I am sure I am the last one to try it on here. If Im not give it a go. The added advantage is that it has not shrunk my carbon bike.

 

[vickster]

They work well for small areas...Not very friendly for the environment however as it’s estimated they will take 100 years to biodegrade...up there with plastic bottles (although these can at least be recycled if people bother to do so), plastic straws and disposable nappies as a scourge

 

[alicat]

^^^ wot @vickster said. They are basically plastic.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Under no circumstances should they be flushed down the toilet, this appears to be a new fad to have a clean(er) bum after visiting the toilet.

 

[AndyRM]

Reasonable environmental concerns aside, those things blow my mind. How they can be safe enough for my daughter's buttcheeks and also get a bike shiny is incredible.

 

[Mugshot]

They should be banned.

 

[Smudge]

Under no circumstances should they be flushed down the toilet, this appears to be a new fad to have a clean(er) bum after visiting the toilet.

Where i currently live, i've had to get drains unblocked about 4 times now. Every time it has been wet wipes further down the line.
I'd like to see them banned.

 

[Mugshot]

No 'flushable' wet wipes tested so far pass water industry tests

 

[Mugshot]

Wet wipe pollution 'changing the shape of British riverbeds'

"Wet wipes are changing the shape of British riverbeds, campaigners said after finding more than 5,000 of them alongside the Thames in an area the size of half a tennis court."

 

[Mugshot]

Wet wipes make up 93% of matter causing UK sewer blockages

"Baby wipes are causing hundreds of thousands of blockages in the UK sewer system and costing the country £100m every year, according to a new report."

 

[winjim]

An old towel cut into small pieces and moistened with tap water is fine. Probably works ok for the bike as well.

 

[Mugshot]

An old towel cut into small pieces and moistened with tap water is fine. Probably works ok for the bike as well.

 

[steveindenmark]

Thanks for this information. I am now back to the strips of cloth.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

An old towel cut into small pieces and moistened with tap water is fine. Probably works ok for the bike as well.

Our you could go all Roman & put it on the end of a stick

 

[winjim]

Our you could go all Roman & put it on the end of a stick

And soak it in vinegar? I think there might be some complaining if I did that, he's grumpy enough with cold water on his bits.