Originally Posted by
FBinNY
The viability of the virus outside the body is relatively short, so you might simply "quarantine" the bike overnight before working on it. Overall, nothing is absolutely safe, but as a mechanic in farm country this should rank far lower than concern over getting tetanus from a frayed cable.
You do keep your tetanus vaccine up to date, don't you?
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada:
"When dried in tissue culture media onto glass and stored at 4 °C, Zaire ebolavirus survived for over 50 days"