EasyPeez
Veteran
- Location
- Cottingham, East Yorkshire
Hi,
After years of abusing my old clanker of a mountain bike I've just got myself a full set of brushes, cleaning fluid, lube etc in preparation for taking delivery of my new CX and am all prepped to lavish the new machine with a lot more love.
I'll be doing around 20miles a day Mon-Fri in all weathers and the odd long weekend ride in fine weather. I'm planning to clean it thoroughly every Friday on my early finish. Will that be enough to keep it rust and crud free and in good working order?
Also, on the midweek nights when I get back and the bike's wet/mucky but I don't have time to give it a clean and family duties call (esp in winter when it's dark when I get back) is there anything quick I can do to help stave off the worst of the rot? My dad said to give it a quick wipe over with a clean rag and spray the moving parts with WD40 to disperse the water but I'm not so sure with the stuff that's in WD40 that it's wise to go spraying that on all over my nice new 105 chainset. Is a quick wipedown the only thing really or are there some other 5-min routines that can help tide a bike over til it's cleaning day again? Cheers.
After years of abusing my old clanker of a mountain bike I've just got myself a full set of brushes, cleaning fluid, lube etc in preparation for taking delivery of my new CX and am all prepped to lavish the new machine with a lot more love.
I'll be doing around 20miles a day Mon-Fri in all weathers and the odd long weekend ride in fine weather. I'm planning to clean it thoroughly every Friday on my early finish. Will that be enough to keep it rust and crud free and in good working order?
Also, on the midweek nights when I get back and the bike's wet/mucky but I don't have time to give it a clean and family duties call (esp in winter when it's dark when I get back) is there anything quick I can do to help stave off the worst of the rot? My dad said to give it a quick wipe over with a clean rag and spray the moving parts with WD40 to disperse the water but I'm not so sure with the stuff that's in WD40 that it's wise to go spraying that on all over my nice new 105 chainset. Is a quick wipedown the only thing really or are there some other 5-min routines that can help tide a bike over til it's cleaning day again? Cheers.