What are the biggest wastes of time in bike maintenance?
04-24-23, 12:01 AM
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Washing my bike with soap. When it is really dirty I just hose it off with hot water. Thorough cleaning happens once a year during winter maintenance. I keep the chain lubed, and the stanchions of my shocks wiped off. That's about it.
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I do so much wrong I am continually amazed that my bikes work at all. When I come home from a wet ride I wash the bike with a moderate mist from my garden home and blast a jet through the brake shoes and inside the fenders. Park it inside leaning on the work table to drip dry. Hang it later or the next day.
Chains - run them through a cloth periodically and before and after oiling. Oil each pin at the plates with a drop of TriFlo or Finish Line MTB wet (my winter/rain/city bikes). OK, it takes me a few minutes to oil the chain. All the rest is fast. Chain comes off when it flunks the ruler check. Every once in a while I'll take a dirty chain that is already off a bike and toss it in a PB jar with solvent and start over. But in general, my chains are dirty except looking quick wipe acceptable.
I've never noticed appreciably longer chain life or better personal life spending more time, money or attention to my chains. So I've stopped doing more.
Chains - run them through a cloth periodically and before and after oiling. Oil each pin at the plates with a drop of TriFlo or Finish Line MTB wet (my winter/rain/city bikes). OK, it takes me a few minutes to oil the chain. All the rest is fast. Chain comes off when it flunks the ruler check. Every once in a while I'll take a dirty chain that is already off a bike and toss it in a PB jar with solvent and start over. But in general, my chains are dirty except looking quick wipe acceptable.
I've never noticed appreciably longer chain life or better personal life spending more time, money or attention to my chains. So I've stopped doing more.
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