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Mountain Bike Maintenance - Cleaning
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007
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Ellsworth's Ron Sawicki Mountain. Bike Tip - Bike Cleaning. The overall routine is done in seven simple steps. First remove the dirt. Second degrease. Third rinse. Fourth Wash. Fifth rinse again. Sixth Dry. Finally seven lube. Here's how..
 
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  1. Rinse off  the surface dirt from your bike. Don't use a high pressure hose as this can push dirt into your bearings. Although don't panic as most bikes these days have sealed bearing so becoming less of a problem but be careful either way. Main advantage of rinsing the dirt off is it avoids you scratching your frame when you scrub and we know how much you love your bike. Wink
  2. Degrease her with a degreasing solution. Cover the moving parts i.e. the chain, chain rings, rear cogs and so on (not the brakes). Brush whilst moving the chain. Change gears at front and back whilst doing this to get all the parts of the chain ring and rear cogdone.
  3. Rinse off
  4. Soap her up with a bike wash and use a big brush for the frame and a smaller one for the difficult to get to parts. Put the wash solution on the brushes too (avoid the brakes). Do scrub cables and try and get to every nook and cranny.
  5. Rinse off
  6. Leave to dry in the shade a bit and then dry the chain with a cloth. Pedal backwards with your hand with the cloth through the chain.
  7. Re-lube the moving bits particularly the chain (and yes avoid the brake;)

 

 

Tips:
Use biodegradable solutions they are more and more readily available 
Have two brushes for those small to reach places.
Any solution on the brakes will lead to poor performance and annoying noise whilst riding. They are self cleaning so leave them alone.
About once a month is good.   

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