Here’s my justification!! I started MTBing at 13 and didn’t realise the importance of cleaning my bike .. would throw it in shed muddy and never seemed to break/need fixing. At the same time was always MTBing with men (not 1 chick!!) who were at least 5 years older than me .. so if something happened on the trail they would fix it ASAP and hence this has continued throughout they would never give me the time for me to learn the skills myself! Now at the age of 30 .. I can do basics but no-one would teach me the finer skills that most men can do.
Now I have a bike/garage fairy (same for my motorbike!). For us it’s like Coffeeking .. he tinkers (as he loves it) and fixes whilst I’m washing/cooking/making cups of tea.
I don’t mind washing my bike however it pe** me off when Mr MC is stood behind me watching and criticzing HOW I wash my bike!! Don’t be doing that as it’s incredibly annoying!
So upshot is I have no clue how to fix my bike normally, can just take it apart to put in bike bag for hols .. oh and occasionally wash it but realistically over the course of a year Mr MC will definately wash it more than me!!!
Funny thing is though I did an adventure race in Dec and bike was stinking. Horrendously cold got home and cleaned bike as thought Mr MC would shout at me if I didn’t due to the state it was in and he had put lots of nice XT/XTR bits on .. he told me off for being so silly washing my bike in -4 degrees! See I can never win ……