Cleaning your Mountain Bike
Cleaning your Bike is quite an essential activity in the whole Mountain Bike Maintenance Aspect. Especially if you have bike in wet and muddy conditions it is important to clean your bike first although you are fatigued. If you wait till the next day or even longer, your bike will be much more difficult to clean. Take especially good care of the little corners where dust or mud can harm your biking performance
If you have prepared the List for Cleaning, you are ready to get going. Below is just one of the many procedures that you can follow if you are Cleaning your Mountain Bike.
- Place your bike on a bike stand, or you can hang it with a sling. (a bike stand is a good investment)
- Rinse your bike with the bucket of water and sponge to take away most of the dirt and grime. A hose will also be useful and faster.
- Spray the degreaser on drive-train, sprocket, front and rear derailleur, chain, and chainrings.
- With the soap and warm water, clean your bike from handlebar and saddle down to the chain. Use the toothbrush for brushing dirt and grime off from hard to reach places. Inspect frame as you go through it with the soap.
- Check the brake pads for excessive wear and tear.
- Inspect the wheels while washing them individually.
- Rinse soap off the bike with water. And dry using the smooth cloth.
- Attach the wheels to the bike while still in the bike stand.
- Play with the gear and brakes.
- Check the crank for wiggle. If it wiggles, tighten the bolts found in the center. If wiggling continuous, replacing the hub may be required, same goes for the wheel hubs.
These are some of the ways in which you can clean your bikes. Remember that a bike has many parts and each part needs to be checked once in a while if it is already dirty or not. Check out our section regarding the List for Cleaning your Mountain Bikes in the following sections.
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I Don't think it is necessary to remove wheels to have you bike washed and clean.
Actually it may turn to be quite hard to put wheels back with bike on bike stand.
I just use a brush to brush rims, spokes and the inside of the hubs. It is very handy to be able to spin wheels while doing this.
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