Just used a lonely sock over my hand dipped in IPA to clean my rotors, allowed me to get fingers round the disc without loosing any of them in the spokes…… Mate thought it a brilliant idea?, I thought it was normal practice. I have lots of little things like this that I do in order to avoid paying for fancy sihte (disc brake wipes🙄)

Interested to know yours

As an added hint, if you sit on your hand for a while it’s like someone else is cleaning your rotors.

Lol.

Lol @akira 😁

lol

I generally spray the rotors with IPA then let it dry and then torch them with a mini gas gun to burn off any residue left behind.

No geese on my rides.

I fixed a hole in a tyre that was too big to seal with Stan’s by using the lumpy end of a cable tie.
Poked through the hole from the inside & snipped off from the outside.
Lasted over 3 months and was still in place when I changed the tyre.

I generally spray the rotors with IPA

I prefer a ruby stout, it has lovely notes of toasted berries when it burns.

Or just use a cloth

I have never felt the need to clean my rotors

The lonley sock idea is good, till you then find another matching lonley sock the next day 🙁

ah a ghost wannnnk

Which IPA for cleaning rotors?

Olde English Empire Style?
West Coast American?
Hazy Juicy New England?
With added Yuzu to add grease-cutting citrus?

I find that a bra makes an excellent dual sided tyre cleaner, just make sure it is unoccupied before use.

I found a waist band cord out of an old pair of pyjamas (don’t ask) made a good betwixt the cogs cassette cleaner.

Plus a pair of old y-fronts on the head to avoid getting bits of dirt in your hair whilst washing the bike.

I did actually once stand my forks in some trainers [edit]cycling shoes to stop the ends getting scratched when the front wheel was removed.
(found a pic:
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I wonder which article of clothing hasn’t found a use in the maintenance of bicycles…

People clean their rotors?? Who knew

Yeah, I’ve got brake pads to do that.

The fork with shoes reminds me of this:

Hmm, i think my shoe usage was slightly more practical

I found a waist band cord out of an old pair of pyjamas (don’t ask) made a good betwixt the cogs cassette cleaner.

Pah, NHS cutlery far superior.

Plus a pair of old y-fronts on the head

Goes well with the cape and tight shorts

I did actually once stand my forks in some trainers [edit]cycling shoes to stop the ends getting scratched when the front wheel was removed.
(found a pic:
)

I wonder which article of clothing hasn’t found a use in the maintenance of bicycles…

That’s not a bad idea, I take the front wheel off my bike to fit it in the car, when I’m at the trails it’s either top of the brake clamps that get scratched, or the rebound adjuster/bottom of the fork. Unless you do the old juggling act of trying to hold the bike with one hand whilst fitting the front wheel with the other…

” a pair of old y-fronts on the head to avoid getting bits of dirt in your hair whilst washing the bike”

Awesome. Like wtAf. Pics please.
🙂

@akira alternatively, sit on the rotor for ten minutes and it feels like your cleaning someone elses.

I put the rotors in the dishwasher now and then.

An old pair of y-fronts will only stop you getting bits of dirt in your hair if you’ve previously shaved the bits of your head where the leg-holes are.

Makes for interesting tan lines through.

Is this how you’d hoped the thread would go OP?

If worried about leaving my car in a huge parking area at a festival or the like and being unable to easily find it on my return I let all the air out of the tyres. Voila! My car is now lower than everyone else’s.

But that means you won’t be able to see it.

Roadies: if you want the trendy gravel bike experience but are too scared to ride off road, try gluing rice crispies to your tyres for that authentic gravel crunch.

(Thank you Vis from 25yrs ago…)

Oh, my god, you abandon a thread and this is what happens. Tears rolling down my cheeks at the gravel biking tip. Superb! 😆

I find that a bra makes an excellent dual sided tyre cleaner, just make sure it is unoccupied before use.

It would clean the tyres better if it was filled, surely?