Poll: How often do you clean your bike?
- Thread starter GoldDust
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My bike is filthy at the moment. When the weather is nice I'd rather go for a ride than clean it. That plus commuting daily on it means it's just constantly grubby. Drive-train is not unclean though, I sometimes give it a wipe down at the end of the week and oil it if it needs it.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I wanted to answer ''when it's dirty'' and ''when I can be bothered'' but it wouldn't let me. ''About as often as I have a bath'' wasn't an option.
RichK
Guru
- Location
- Birmingham, England
depends on the bike but probably not as often as some. I'd rather be riding than cleaning 
hedder2212
Senior Member
- Location
- Walsall
Mine never gets cleaned anymore. I simply cant be bothered.
jayonabike
Powered by caffeine & whisky
- Location
- Hertfordshire
^^This^^
liambauckham
Über Member
- Location
- Bradley Stoke, Bristol
clean? whats that?
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Not as often as I tell people that I do.
In summer my road* bike gets cleaned really after every ride, because it's light in the evenings and it's no problem to do it out in the back yard. In winter, when it really needs it, it's dark, and possibly raining, and I can't be arsed to put it up on the stand out the back.
* The posh one with big wheels. They all get ridden on the road, although none is a "road" bike as in sporty carbon job.
In summer my road* bike gets cleaned really after every ride, because it's light in the evenings and it's no problem to do it out in the back yard. In winter, when it really needs it, it's dark, and possibly raining, and I can't be arsed to put it up on the stand out the back.
* The posh one with big wheels. They all get ridden on the road, although none is a "road" bike as in sporty carbon job.
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Worryingly, so far 27% of voters clean their bikes after every ride.
Mine live in my spare bedroom, so I have to keep them reasonably clean, but even then they get cleaned only when they need it, i.e. when I can be bothered!
I try to avoid wet weather riding which cuts the cleaning down considerably. During the odd spells of dry weather that we get, the bikes rarely get cleaned. If I've been out on wet roads or trails then probably after most rides - unless I know I'm going out in dirty conditions again in the near future.
Mine live in my spare bedroom, so I have to keep them reasonably clean, but even then they get cleaned only when they need it, i.e. when I can be bothered!
I try to avoid wet weather riding which cuts the cleaning down considerably. During the odd spells of dry weather that we get, the bikes rarely get cleaned. If I've been out on wet roads or trails then probably after most rides - unless I know I'm going out in dirty conditions again in the near future.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
I clean mine when it needs it (well sometimes). It needs it right now but I'm off for a ride instead. 
Racing roadkill
Guru
Too busy riding them normally, I took the front wheel off the Carbon bike, and put the bike in the shower to clean it last night, because the crud was fouling the tyres between the forks, and the brakes wouldn't move.
