Very, I can't get out of my street w/o it being dirty. It doesn't have to rain for that, wet roads and sand is enough. I use many paths not accessible for cars like trough woods and parks or a 'trekweg' next to a river.
My E-bike is not very dirty. I don't go racing ith the bike and I use is mostly when it's sunny. I don't ride long distanes and when I do? It's sunny and are the road mostly dry
@@gcntechthis time you cleaned your wheels before some parts of the frame. I would never do this to my car and bikes... Well they can be more expensive than cars!
But it's not the cleaning that takes time. 1. Extracting the bucket from behind the waste pipes under the sink. 2. Finding all the chems. 3. Finding the hose - under all that mess in the shed you meant to clean out at the end of summer. 4. Finding the hose nozzle - in the kids' room pretending to be a space rocket. 5. Going to the bike shop for new brushes 'cause the missus threw the old ones away to make a point after you cleaned them in the bathroom sink ...
Oh yeah! And remember: Dishwashing soap is the Devil, Hitler and Stalin mixed all together in liquid form. You need to use Josh Silca's washing soap made from a mixture of Eddy Merckx's sweat and rookie Italian domestique's tears. It's only $49.99! 😂
PRO tip: If you have a leaf blower you can get all the water off the gears/chains. Water is bad for chains so the leaf blower is awesome for your chain. No cloth will dry your chain/gears as well as a leaf blower.
I would like to perform a daily spritz post ride. My problems are sand, salt and dust. I do perform a detailed cleaning with my car at least once per week. But I feel that if I keep up with it daily, it would make the weekly detail less work. Any thoughts, please?
I like how you're have it in on people for resting their bikes on some walls for a quick picture for the GCN Tech Show's bike vault, but here you've probably done more damage than all of the people combined who sent pictures for the show
If you take the time to prewash to not scratch your bike. Don't just put your wash mit on the ground😅. Little tip I learned from detailing my car: use a bucket with clean water to rinse your wash mit before you put it in the bucket with soap. You will be surprised how much dirt comes off the mit and how clean the soap bucket stays.
NEVER EVER CLEAN THE RIMS AND THE THE REST WITH THE SAME RAG! Are you crazy?? You have taken all the grit and small rocks from your tires and rubbed them into all the other surfaces and paint!
Wd-40 water displacement experiment number 40 created for maintenance of i.c.b.m missles... It helps dry the nooks and crannies water may seep into. and you can control over-spray with a straw attachment that it comes with.
Ollie, you have a garden-hose 'pistol' that has a 'shower' setting. Use it quickly and gently rinse of the soap. It also decreases the pressure so should be safe to use as a pre-wash without hurting the bearings. In wintertime I find using those handheld little chain washing machines very handy, btw. Will set you back 25-30 euro but I feel it does a good enough job and pretty fast as well. Winter means using fenders/mudguards right? Don't forget to clean them out with the harder single waterbeam and give all the lights and reflectors you might have a good clean as well. You want to be visible in the darker months. Question though: I take you're re-using those microfiber rags? Can you actually clean those well, with all the dirty grease? What washing settings are you using for those?
I've tried weird things, but the only thing that I found that strips completely the grease off NYLON MICROFIBER cloths is concentrate oven cleaner and hot water, then just swirl it around for a bit and rinse them in hot water. Do it at your own risk, cause oven cleaner contains nasty chemicals (I get it for free from work and I'm rather comfortable using it since I use it daily at work), but I promise you that your microfiber cloths will look absolutely brand new. Also make sure you rinse them thoroughly, cause oven cleaner has the tendency to absolutely chemically obliterate aluminium.
Except his “degreaser” isn’t degreaser…it’s that SILCA drivetrain cleaner which is actually what the car industry call “fallout remover”. It doesn’t affect wax!
No hose, no stand, live in a flat and recently found a massive watering can really helps! One big can allows for a pre-rinse and rinse of “shampoo”, as well as saving me multiple trips up and down to the kitchen with my washing up bowl. Of course you don’t have the power of a hose, power washer or even a manual pressure (don’t bother with the Amazon own one, it’s trash!) but it can’t do everything 😂
You can also use a garden sprayer. It doesn’t have a lot of pressure, but you can fill up the several gallon container in the tub, and it will wash a whole bike.
No offense but you are funny. And when would you be in a situation where you absolutely have to clean it, but have only 5 minutes, not 10? Sorry but rediculous. Besides he needs more than 5 minutes for the setting things ready and back.
Nooooo !!! Stop scraping your seat and handlebar/brake levers on that wall !!! Use a rag or towel to protect. And, no washing up liquid because of bearings but …. Then sprays degreaser on cassette and chainwheels just where bearings are. Hmmmm … Brushes on frame are no problem. Fairy liquid is fine because you’re rinsing it off. So much scaremongering in these very frequent wash videos.
Thx for calling SI out on his B.S. He spreads miss-information from time to time lol I like the video, but try washing a dirty gravel or mountain bike next.
I always clean the bike with a hand pressure sprayer (filled with soap water), and leave the with Squirt low temp wax waxed chain as it is (as it does not wash out that easily), until the chain does not feel "waxy", then I put some wax on again. The carbon front wheels of my summer bike I would never ever clean with a garden-hose pistol, as unnecessary humidity might lead to corrosion of the commonly used alloy nipples. On my DT Swiss ARC Dicut wheels (62 and 80) I put some Pattex Power repair where the spokes go into the rim to prevent water getting in there, and the valves are hidden in the rim, so I can "seal" the valve hole with a thin piece of tape and gain some better aerodynamics, it is a win-win. In this video, I would put some soap water on the frame instead of degreaser on the chain. In case the road is wet anyway but no rain is to be expected, I prefer riding without mudguards as they slow me down, and leave the bike dirty.
Im sure I've ruined my bikes from washing them, degreaser gets into the freehub and bearings. Also never spray anything onto a dirty bike it puts all the dirt into the bearings.
And all those crazy expensive degreaser/cleaning fluids end up in the soil somewhere. Well done! Mother nature says thanks!!! - just use some mild eco friendly cleaning soap you might also use for your dishes and you're good to go. Warm water also helps a lot - and maybe 10 more minutes of your time. Skip all the speciality products - IMHO this is mostly marketing BS to get you to spend more €$£.
I thought this video was going to be redemption for the recent horrible "pro cyclist bike cleaning" video. This was equally bad, if not worse. GCN... you have such a large audience. Please stop posting videos with improper information like this. You're saying you've "come a long way" but these two recent videos in the past few weeks are nothing short of what you should NOT do to clean your bike. Please do better and not make content for clicks just for profit!
Ehhh, yet another video showing things I cannot do... because I live in small apartment....and with wife and small daughter... I guess wet rag in underground car park must do ;) BTW: why use degreaser when your waxing your chain? In this video Ollie used wet lube but how is it as a general rule ?
Hoses don't work so well when its -10°C ... yep Canada. (Not much does) And the tires, wheels are second last to clean before the drive train.... not before any part of the frame. That whole thing hurt to watch. Sigh.
This video puts a shame to the magic and consideration a good drivetrain degreaser has. When you put a good degreaser on it, you can let it do it's magic without water washing it off, while you watch a GCN video and have a cup of coffee (or for British people, tea).
@@jake_brewer Because washing up liquid contains harsh chemicals and abrasive agents. Using it can cause swirls and fine scratches on painted surfaces. Car shampoo also contains lubricants that protect the paint when e.g. a wash mitt is passing over the surface - washing up liquid does not.
How dare you prop the bike up against the wall and risk scratching it! You guys knock people all the time taking pictures and posting them with the bikes leaned up against the wall.
I didn't find this video that good because Ollie is cleaning a clean bike, like for goodness sake its like showing how to clean a clean plate and say it took you 10 seconds to do it. All you need to do is to ride the bike during any winter day in the uk and the bike is ussually covered in dirt..
Oh no why up down then wheels then up and down again then drivetrain then again up down. Should just wash from all top then middle then bottom then drive train and wheels and tires is the last because of the degreaser and also sand on the tires
In my old age, I've become wary of degreaser getting into the freewheel and destroying the bearings. Take off the wheel and clean the cassette dry with a rag (slotted between cogs.) If that's not sufficient, take it off the freewheel and clean cogs individually. If you have a compressor, maybe you can get away with the wet approach, but most people don't.
I'm way too stupid to get back wheel off. But I never clean the cassette bc I don't want degreaser and water to end up in the bearings. So I always wondered how I can get the degreaser off properly if I'm reluctant to spray the bike with a hose. Would a sponge with water be enough to get it off?
I do have a question about on-bike electronics, such as crank/pedal based powermetres and electronic shifting comp or batteries. How careful do I need to be around them with products and rinsing or are they more sturdy than I think ?
