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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Bikes: '72 Cilo Pacer, '72 Gitane Gran Tourisme, '72 Peugeot PX10, '73 Speedwell Ti, '74 Peugeot UE-8, '75 Peugeot PR-10L, '80 Colnago Super, '85 De Rosa Pro, '86 Look Equipe 753, '86 Look KG86, '89 Parkpre Team, '90 Parkpre Team MTB, '90 Merlin
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That all sounds about right to me. However, BITD when I was a teenage racer, my maintenance schedule was far more intense. I enjoyed working on my bikes and took care to maintain a super clean, low drag drivetrain. I would take everything apart, including BB and thorough chain cleaning, about once a month, maybe more during race season. Hubs got repacked maybe every couple months, except my sealed bearing Mavic 500/501 hubs which I never touched. Bike would get a through cleaning and maintenance just about every Sunday evening after club rides or races.
Fast-forward to now, I have a lot more bikes, so my riding is spread out over more. The ones that I do ride more frequently (LOOK, Cilo, De Rosa, Merlin, and to a lesser extent Parkpre road & mtb) do get a complete overhaul about once a year, usually during the cold, wet winter months. Two things I do more often: rust abatement and truing wheels. I used to train on sturdy MA40s and race on tubulars. Now, even though I'm nearly 50 pounds heavier than I was in high school, most of my riding is on what I would have considered "race wheels," so they tend to go out of true a little more often.