Looigi

Yep...

hhnngg1

Good on them for sponsoring your team, but it sure sounds like a regular baby-wipe to me if it's also compatible with skin cleaning.

November Dave

you have to see them to really appreciate it. they are big in area and pretty substantial. i've used baby wipes, and they're okay, but with a veloshine you clean the frame and it's still going strong, and so you clean your wheels and tires and it's still going, so you clean your chain and floss your cassette with it when that's done. then it's thoroughly disgusting and spent. so this is the general baby wipe concept fully adapted to bike needs.

spock

Just call your apartment maintenance person.


You can always go to the Apartment Depot and see what they got over there, but you probably won't find a whole lot except an empty warehouse with a bunch of people standing around and going, "we ain't gotta fix ****". -Mitch Hedberg

Litespeedlouie

For an overall washdown, I do it outside the front door, with a bucket of soapy water and a sponge, followed by a rinse bucket. I bounce the bike of excess water and dry with a towel. Then for the drive stuff, I go inside, lay down a few newspapers on the carpet, and set up the Feedback (nee Ultimate) bike stand. I can raise the bike so I can move a trashcan under the area I work on (rear, chain, cranks) and can sit on a chair. I'll use a paper towel or cotton rag around the rings and like floss on the cassette. I simply run the chain through a rag, oil the chain, wipe, repeat, maybe a toothbrush if it looks like crud in the links. I've just never felt like cassettes and chains are worth removing to thoroughly degrease regularly. I just oil and wipe the chain fairly often. I don't feel I have any wear or performance problems after decades of my regimen.

maverick31210

Outside the door before I take it back inside....which explains the oil stains on the ground leading up to the door lol....and also why my room always smell like chain lube.

Mr Pink57

I have a deck so I usually just go out there and clean it with paper towels. It's must easier once it dries to do this, during the summer time I will leave my bike stand always up it's on the back of the apartment so no worries on someone snagging it.

My mother doesn't live far away either, if I need to get down and dirty on the bike I will take it over there for a overhaul and do it in her garage (she's never home anyways).

Shuke

I would not suggest the bathtub route unless you want to do some extra cleaning afterwards:

renton

That's what happened to my bathtub. Took more time to clean the tub than it took to clean the bike.
And since I don't have a balcony I'm SOL

rnorris

When I lived in a condo there was no bike storage area so the bikes stayed on the balcony. Damaging the carpets wasn't an option, so muddy bikes were hosed down outside, wiped until no longer dripping, then carried upstairs and out onto the balcony. Normal road grit could be removed by wiping the oily bits down when out on the balcony. My balcony had no weather protection and it's often wet here in the PNW, so serious work on the bike was often done in my bathtub lined with cardboard to avoid scratches. No way would I have cleaned it in there, way too much work to clean the tub afterward.

I was SO happy when a neighbor put an extra garage he owned up for sale! I jumped on it ASAP.

black_box 

Has anyone tried a "waterhog" mat? A little pricey but "Water dam border holds up to 1.5 gallons/sq yard."
https://afm.waterhogfloormats.com/

A custom 3x5 or 3x6 mat? I think LL Bean has them too.

Machka 

You don't fill the tub and bathe the bicycle! You use the hand-held shower attachment to wash the bicycle and wash all the dirt etc. down the drain.

v70cat

I also use Pledge to polish the bike.

orionz06

I have used the shower, along with a pesticide type pump sprayer and a GOOD squirt bottle.

https://www.amazon.com/Hudson-Ortho-P.../dp/B004MJ1VY4

https://www.autogeek.net/spray-master.html

https://www.autogeek.net/autogeek-pressure-sprayer.html

Big bottle for rinse water, small bottles for chemicals. I will dilute them a little lighter than what the bottle says, and I have generally tried as much as I could. Diluted Simple Green and good car wash shampoo work well, with the latter being better IMHO.

What I will do is mix the soap of choice and spot soak, let sit for a few minutes and hit it again, the second hit will generally knock off any of the crud and then I will rinse using the small bottle. Then rinse using the second large bottle. The small stream does a good job of controlling where the spray goes, the splash, and where the crud ends up.

For a road bike, I am sure there is far less, but my rides still put some dirt on the frame.



As a side note, I have pets and the large spray bottle works well to mix carpet cleaner in and use around the house for messes.

DXchulo

I use the shower. It isn't ideal, but it works. Just wipe it down with degreaser and a sponge when you're done.

rushbikes

Buy some cheap microfiber rags and Pedro's Green Fizz Bike Wash. I haven't gotten a road bike dirty enough yet where that method didn't suffice. Mtn bikes are a different story - definitely have to spray down the caked mud before bringing it in the apt.

transamman1999

you wash your bike????



i just use baby wipes every now and then when the dirt/grime appears to have added a pound or two to the overall bike weight

Borys

I found a local gas station with a water station for cars. Actually this worked better than I expected. I bring all of the equipment with me in an old bag. Roughly takes an hour to clean and wash my bike from start to finish.

GlennR

Not sure why you need a running water source.

I clean my bike in my garage and there is a hose but I don't need it. You just need a go to the basement or outside and bring a bike stand, rags and a bucket with an assortment of cleaners and brushes,

fried bake

yup. The shower works just fine. I lived in a 200 sq ft apt and would clean my drivetrain by putting old towels on top of cardboard to protect the floor while the bike was in the stand in the kitchen/living room/entryway.

Schlafen

Ultrasonic cleaner for drive train.
Wet wipes for anything else.

I have a 10L unit with a drain tap. Can reuse degreaser a few times just strain when draining.

Before that, I used car washes as well. No bearings damaged whatsoever.

big chainring 

I've been washing my car in winter this way for years. For a bike I would get a wallpaper sprayer at a paint store. Maybe $10. Holds half gallon of water. Simply pump up pressure and spray, no hose to deal with.

Greatestalltime

*Do not use paper towels on any paint that you don’t want swirled/scratched. They are much to abrasive.

Fox Farm

In the bath tub. Cleans up and the tub as well with not much problem.