How do you wash your bike?

Once a year it gets a proper clean …

One of these to spray the downtube before mounting back on the roof. Then spray the kids bikes. They get to commute on some seriously dirty kit some days. All adds to their cred!

My Cube hardtail has a little sticker on the back of the seat tube stating ‘handwash only’ – I’ll be honest, trying to get it into the zanussi never crossed my mind.. (who says the Germans don’t have a sense of humour!) 😀

Seriously though, Turtle wax wash n shine in a bucket o’ water with the dustpan brush, followed by a rinse & if needed, a drive train clean up with Park scrubber / citrus degreaser. Bounce dry, and either GT85 or if the weather’s minging ACF50 (better at keeping the salt-laden sand & spray at bay on my coastal commute). It doesn’t get a wash after each outing, as it’s in daily use, but I generally wipe the stanchions over.

Just started using hope’s shit shifter and it saves me so much time, a lot better than the fairy liquid or muc off I’ve been using. Rinse it off then a bit of gt85, bit of rock n roll and a bit of wet lube on the cables.

Malverns – hose it down after a ride for the three months a year it gets muddy

FoD – hose it down the eleven months a year it gets muddy 😉

Try and ensure I dry off and re-lube forks/shock/uppitydowny seatpost. After that apathy generally takes over.

All this talk of degreasing chains etc, I moved to squirt wax lube last year and now now more chain degreasing 🙂