How to re-lube and protect your bike post clean: Pro tips for best maintenance techniques
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Cleaning your bike is only the first part of looking after it. What you do immediately post clean is just as important. Primarily water and moisture must be driven out from key components, especially moving parts such as derailleurs, pedals and so on, using a reputable water-dispersing lubricant. Leaving them untreated will inevitably lead to corrosion and problems further down the line. Of course the chain will need to be thoroughly dried and re-lubricated too.
In this video we take you through all the key steps, and some crucial dos and don’ts for a quick and easy cleaning regime, to make sure your bike is always good to go for the next ride.
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This is great. Dozens of videos on how to get your bike soapy and wet, but nothing on youtube on post-wash care. Glad someone covered this, important for preventing rust and maintaining adequate lubrication not just on the chain.
Excellent video!
IMHO WD 40 it's excellent for pedals springs and moving parts with the aim to remove humidity and clean. I'd avoid spraying it on pulleys being that it can penetrate and remove the grease from the small tiny bearings.
Soaking a rag with motor oil (any engine oil will do) and pulling the chain through it is all I do.
That's it.
Repeat every week on rainy conditions and every month on dry conditions.
No special expensive chain oil, chain wax and no degreaser or anything else needed.
Motor oil has everything needed, it works not only as a lubricant but also as a detergent and rust inhibitor, it has anti wear components, too. In winter it's thin enough and in summer thick enough due to it's viscostiy improvers it comes with when it is a multigrade oil which every motor oil nowadays is.
Like I said, everything ever needed is already in motor oil included.
There is no cheaper and more effective way to take care of your bicycle chain.
Or Gear Oil.
Another great vid. Nice to see WD40 not being slated as utterly bad for bikes, and being used as it was intended.
Regarding it penetrating and removing grease from bearings, a light spray over won't do that. The grease is relatively heavy and the gaps are small (otherwise the grease could fall out on a hot day). If you soak the pulleys in WD40, with the openings facing down (i.e. bike on its side), and leave it that way for hours then yes it will.
Give your jockeys a twiddle(!) - you'll feel if they're rough/dry either completely or in patches as you turn them. Many of them can be dismantled and re-greased.
Interesting comment about not using a protectant on the chain if using a wax based lube, I need to review my cleaning routine, I've always used GT85 on the chain post wash and then apply Squirt lube the day before I head out for a ride.
An electric computer duster/blower does a good job of drying those hard to reach parts, cheap too
If you leave the wheels on when using any spray lube, I'd use shower caps to cover the rotors & callipers. Disposable caps with an elasticated band are ideal. I only have to have an unopened can of GT85 in the same area as my bike & the brakes will squeal on the next ride! I use Mentholated Spirit to clean the rotors post lube.
Great video, looks like I have been doing it pretty much correctly then. 😊
For my bike I actually use Turtlewax Hybrid Solution ceramic spray as a final finish frame/forks spray.
Super long lasting and beads water. Use for car as well.
Hairdryer on the chain, my wife’s dryer stays in the bike shed now 😁😁
Top tip, single use brake cleaner in a can is such a waste of metal and waste. Buy a 5litre container of isopropyl alcohol and decant into a spray bottle, loads cheaper, lasts ages and hopefully better that using loads of cans. 🤔👍
Nice tips
What chain lube do you use?
@@chellebunderla2045 I’ve been using revolubes
This was exactly what I was looking for.
Absolutely great. Instructive and clear.
Thanks for this. What's keeping your front wheel aligned, the bungee cord?
I use a car filtered air dryer after washing my bike to remove every last drop of water from the bike with a microfiber drying cloth.
It's a breeze 😃
hi, great video but is it sure to use WD40 on al electronic group-set? thanks