pressure washer or hand wash?

[bainy16]

as the title state do you wash off the muck with pressure washer or good old fashioned bucket and soupy water?

 

[Herr-B]

I'm supposed to wash it?

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Never ever ever pressure wash a bike, it washes the grease from the bearings

 

[Mallory]

^^^^^ wot he said

Just use some muc off spray and a brush/sponge. Even be careful using muc off around your headset as if you do not rinse properly all the grease will disperse

 

[G3CWI]

good old fashioned bucket and soupy water?

Soupy water sounds like a bad idea.

 

[ColinJ]

I use a compromise - a 5 litre manually pumped garden spray. I never spray directly into bearings, but the pressure is much lower anyway. It works well and is convenient for me because I don't have a water outlet near where I wash my bikes.

 

[bainy16]

looks like the pressure washer is out of the question looks like elbow grease then was just thinking of a little time saying way as i hate hand washing the bike lol .......may be a business opportunity here for a hand bike wash just like the car ones .....anybody fancy washing it for a fiver

 

[Lee_M]

i use a pressure washer, always have

maybe I 'm a better aim than everyone else

 

[Boris Bajic]

I used to work for a UN agency that was a bit weird about having clean vehicles. They were white (of course) and we had guys in the garage who pressure-washed* them constantly at the first sign of settling dust or splatter marks. That put me off pressure washers for life.

Bucket of warm water, a sponge, a rag and a brush. Pure heaven.

ven for MTBs or trail bikes, a good dousing with a hose at low pressure will ease the most concrete-like mud.

Also, you get to see developing faults if you're running a cloth or a sponge over a bike, motorcycle or car.

I'm not in the 'it screws your bearings' school, because I think you can be careful with aim. I just think it's another piece of technology that we don't need and which has very little effect in terms of making an already fairly easy job less unpleasant.

* We lost three Karcher machines in a few months. A year or two later I was back with a different employer and one of our former mechanics had opened a Car Wash in the next town.

 

[Peteaud]

Wash mit, large dodo bucket of warm water, car shampoo. gently rinse via hose, dry off, Zainno Z8, done.

 

[addictfreak]

i use a pressure washer, always have

maybe I 'm a better aim than everyone else

A I said in a similar thread earlier today, I have also always used a pressure washer on my MTB and Road Bikes and its never caused me any issues whatsoever.

 

[ianrauk]

never use pressure water for reason's given above.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Soupy water sounds like a bad idea.

I prefer to drink soup, not use it to wash my bikes .

 

[bainy16]

SOAPY not soupy water sorry for the typo lol

 

[The Brewer]

Never had any problems with a pressure washer, I back up when doing around bearings and movable parts, you don't have to be really close. It also helps to let the detergent have time to work before washing off