I got my bike out to clean it today after a trip to Gisburn in the mud yesterday but it wasn’t raining so I wiped off the worst of the mud and went for a ride instead. Aren’t the mushrooms, toadstools and Autumn colours in general lovely.

I’m not looking forward to the ‘2 hour night ride followed by a 30 minute bike wash’ weather 🙁

I forget about all of the damn bike washing until now, 30 minutes of freezing your ass off when you really don’t feel like cleaning is horrible 🙁

havign said that starting a ride on a filthy bike always feels quite good 🙂

I generally just clean grips and saddle, hose everything else off.

But if stuff brakes or wears out quickly, I only blame myself.