Back in March, me and my mate both bought new roadies.
Unfortunately for him, after 2 weeks into ownership of his brand new Spesh Allez Comp 2012, he ruptured his Achilles tendon playing football and is still currently out of action (apparently this things can take up to 9 months to heal properly)
Having parked his bike up since then, we went to have a look at it over the weekend and noticed the chain and groupset had rust on it - the bike was brand new from Evans and hasn't even had its first service done.
Our main priority is to get it back to normal and clean the chain/groupset back to its shiny silver - can any suggests the best way of doing this?
I was thinking:
1) Use degreaser (GT30 etc)
2) Very hot soapy water to give the metal a proper scrub
3) Park tools chain cleaner
4) Dry excessively
5) Dry again
6) Re-lube
Will this do the trick?
Thanks
Unfortunately for him, after 2 weeks into ownership of his brand new Spesh Allez Comp 2012, he ruptured his Achilles tendon playing football and is still currently out of action (apparently this things can take up to 9 months to heal properly)
Having parked his bike up since then, we went to have a look at it over the weekend and noticed the chain and groupset had rust on it - the bike was brand new from Evans and hasn't even had its first service done.
Our main priority is to get it back to normal and clean the chain/groupset back to its shiny silver - can any suggests the best way of doing this?
I was thinking:
1) Use degreaser (GT30 etc)
2) Very hot soapy water to give the metal a proper scrub
3) Park tools chain cleaner
4) Dry excessively
5) Dry again
6) Re-lube
Will this do the trick?
Thanks