What would you say is the number one reason for cleaning your bicycle on a regular basis?

[screenman]

I use a garden sprayer - much less force than a jet washer, uses less water and better for the environment

Plastic?

 

[Smudge]

Hardly ever clean my car, because i haven't got much enthusiasm about cars.... its just a tool that does a job for me.
Bikes & motorcycles are different, they are an interest as well as being a mode of transport. Apart from the obvious maintenance thing, they are just more enjoyable to look at and take out for a ride when they're pristinely clean. When they get plastered in mud & road crud, i cannot leave them like that.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Remember it is the tool holding the tool that does the damage and this tool knows how to use a jetwash on his bikes.

Each to their own but I would never recommend it, just like I'd never recommend using one on the top side of a car, but as I very very very rarely clean either what do I know

 

[Threevok]

Plastic?

Yes, sorry - but I had no choice as the animal they used to make them out of is now extinct

 

[ianrauk]

You just can't have a dirty bike on a commute. You just can't. Standards must be kept.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

i cannot leave them like that.

you're not trying hard enough, ignore, get on, ride, makes no difference if it's clean

 

[Threevok]

I was sick of the site of sheep crap on my bike

So I got a green bike

Job did

 

[Smudge]

you're not trying hard enough, ignore, get on, ride, makes no difference if it's clean

I guess the difference is.... that i just say what i do, i dont tell others to do the same.

 

[screenman]

Each to their own but I would never recommend it, just like I'd never recommend using one on the top side of a car, but as I very very very rarely clean either what do I know

If you are standing 10 foot away from the water coming out of a turned down low jet washer how wet would you get? not very that is for sure. Why would you not use one on the top side of a car, as you may know that is my trade and I have just by coincidence just washed them both using a jet washer.

 

[snorri]

a quick blast of with the jetwash keeps them looking fine.

NEVER, better with a shot blaster, that makes them glisten,.........................unless it's a carbon frame.

 

[Rooster1]

Then your mechanic does not know how to use a jetwash, this guy knows it does his bikes no harm.

I'd like to jetwash your reply

 

[screenman]

I'd like to jetwash your reply

Help yourself, we even water our flowers with the jet wash. The tool used properly creates no damage to the bike at all.

 

[screenman]

To be honest I cannot figure out why people think a jet washer is a dangerous tool, but like people thinking roads are dangerous.

 

[mjr]

If you are standing 10 foot away from the water coming out of a turned down low jet washer how wet would you get? not very that is for sure.

Isn't "a turned down low jet washer" basically a very expensive way of getting hosepipe-strength water delivery? Is it even accurate to call it a "blast with the jetwash" if it's not blasting or even jetting?

 

[screenman]

Isn't "a turned down low jet washer" basically a very expensive way of getting hosepipe-strength water delivery? Is it even accurate to call it a "blast with the jetwash" if it's not blasting or even jetting?

If I am using a jet wash to deliver water to the bike then surely I am using a jet wash. You adjust the pressure by moving closer or further away from the object, but I do not think many people know this it seems.

If you are ever in these parts you are welcome to come and strip down one of my jet washed bikes and inspect for any damage.