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Hi what cleaner do you use to clean your bike.what would you recommend
Muck Off or Shit shifter.
Neither, we use Fenwicks. Muc Off is the work of the Devil, know of a shop lad who soaked an xtr drivetrain in it, it stripped the anodising off it!
Used to use Muc Off, then went to Sh!t Shifter when the LBS didn't have any in stock one day. Have found Sh!t Shifter to be just about as good at cleaning/degreasing, but seams to be kinder to seals/bearing/anodising etc so I've kept on using it. Just my experience - not looked at COSHH sheets or ingeient lists to see if it is actually "kinder".
Some of this -
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With some of this
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I thought good old Fairy Liquid had a high salt content.Thats no good for your bike.
I've got some Fenwicks FS-1 (I think it is).
It's a concentrate in a litre bottle. I think it cost about £10, but you dilute it down 10:1 for bike wash so it lasts ages. You can also use it neat as degreaser which i do when using my chain cleaner gadget.
+1 for washing up liquid. Wash RINSE and go! Belive it or not rinsing will get rid of any salt, if there is any in the first place...
i am struggling to find a shop that sells the Fenwicks which is close enough to me.West Yorks/Lancs border.
Anyone know of such a place?
Thanks
Had always used Muc Off for 15+ years but like above it damaged the finsh on wy White Ind Cranks recently so now moved to Hope stuff.
Fenwicks stuff seems godo and lasts for ages.
[url= http://www.juicelubes.co.uk/all-products/dirt-juice-super-gnarl/ ]http://www.juicelubes.co.uk/all-products/dirt-juice-super-gnarl/[/url]
I have moved over to juice lubes 'dirt juice' 10:1 too, so lasts ages, very good de-greaser, citrus based so smells good and is biodegradable. Best bit is, if you dont get on with it, send it back and you get a refund.
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wideopenmag have a review of it this month...
We've got some samples in not tried it yet!
Deb Jizer for degreasing and then Fairy Liquid for the rest. A good rinse and the salt content is not an issue. Being doing this for donkey's years and never had a bike die of high blood pressure.
Plain old water and a brush for me, tried muc off once but couldn't really see what the point was?
I'm with Jim, PeterPoddy etc on this. I used Muc Off once but couldn't see what it did that a bucket of hot soapy water couldn't do. Granted I use degreaser on the chain every other ride or so, but for the rest of the bike can anyone [i]honestly[/i] say specialist cleaners are better?