Now i dont know what it its,ive been riding mountain bikes-atbs's for over 20years now,road before that…is it because ive been riding for this long that….
All i do is ride the things to pure destruction,never check them,throw them about,and shove em back in the house after a ride with no oil cleaning or **** all!! :-).
or am i a useless git nowadays,used to love fettling,years ago.
anyone else like me?

yep.
i ride them til they break then get repaired/replaced 🙂

love riding them cant be bothered cleaning them*, thankfully it normally only means replacing a chain more often than normal

*plus it rains and then they get 'clean' anyway. so actually i'm helping the enviroment. i should have gone into politics.

my winter bike gets very little care – washed by leaving it out in the rain, oil on chain & that's it

the other one gets only a bit more, but then I ride that in summer

you do pay the price now & then though – I've had to miss a chance for a quickie plenty of times because of a flat/niggle when I needed to get on & get going without any delays

you do pay the price now & then though – I've had to miss a chance for a quickie plenty of times because of a flat/niggle when I needed to get on & get going without any delays

you can get some purple pills to sort that out mate 😉

think your frames will be prone to breaking jedi ahem 😉

mine has had a wash in the rain this morning,looks alot cleaner now… 🙂

i have never broken a frame.
parts wear out thats all.

had 2 new swing arms on the demo9 thats all

i aint either,alls good.

Am I the only one on this forum that actually cleans my bikes, maintains them when a problem happens and makes sure that everything is A1 before the next ride? 😕