jet wash

[400bhp]

Just use a normal hose with a gun turned to the shower setting - tis what I do.

 

[screenman]

Jet wash every time here.

 

[Blue]

Just use a normal hose with a gun turned to the shower setting - tis what I do.

That and baby wipes for my steed.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Whatever you decide, (apart from jet washing), and regardless of frequency, don't forget to MICKLE your chain on a regular basis

 

[400bhp]

TBF jet wash should be fine, so long as the gun is a fair way from the bike and the hose is set to a wide arc.

But then you have to ask why bother with it in the first place? Just a waste of power and effort getting the jet wash out.

 

[Globalti]

Jet wash is OK, as FF writes, on a bike that's going to be stripped ad rebuilt almost daily. It's not OK on your or my bike.

Get a soft, long-bristled hand floor brush and use that with a bucket of hot water with car shampoo, then rinse gently with a hose set on sprinkle. Then dry the chain, clean the brake blocks and rims and every month or so, take the brake blocks out and pick out embedded grit then de-glaze on some sandpaper.

 

[Venod]

Always use the jet wash on the muddy MTB being doing it for years with no adverse effects, just don't direct it straight at headset or bottom bracket.

 

[ScotiaLass]

Bucket of warm water, car shampoo and a soft brush here.
Rinsed then dried off and chain lubed etc.
Didn't know about the baby wipes!! Is this bike abuse?

 

[smokeysmoo]

Didn't know about the baby wipes!! Is this bike abuse?

Only if you don't adopt the procedure from this day forth

 

[ScotiaLass]

Only if you don't adopt the procedure from this day forth

I am reformed!!! <rushes out to buy the best possible baby wipes>

 

[numbnuts]

These are OK
http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/streetw...sher-p199662?gclid=CKnDt4Om07sCFfHMtAodSWkAiw

 

[screenman]

TBF jet wash should be fine, so long as the gun is a fair way from the bike and the hose is set to a wide arc.

But then you have to ask why bother with it in the first place? Just a waste of power and effort getting the jet wash out.

Jet wash is out all the time, I also find it quicker and easier than a bucket and brush. Remembering I live in a very rural, filthy muddy area, when I lived in Twickenham the bike never got any where near as dirty. In those times a bucket and hosepipe sufficed.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Baby wipes always.

I recently came back from visiting @hopless500 in the muddiest part of Norfolk, returning with half the mud on my bike and we never left the road either. I left it to dry overnight then removed it all with baby wipes and mickled the chain. It was gleaming afterwards.

 

[s7ephanie]

I'm not 100% sure it WAS mud that i was riding through (i am in VERY rurual France )

 

[hopless500]

Baby wipes always.

I recently came back from visiting @hopless500 in the muddiest part of Norfolk, returning with half the mud on my bike and we never left the road either. I left it to dry overnight then removed it all with baby wipes and mickled the chain. It was gleaming afterwards.

Still not cleaned mine