Washed my bike today

[Bad JuJu]

Umm, T-girl? I have Frogs, but I didn't know they required lubing. How often and with what?

[LadyinWhite]

hmmm.. now I'm feeling like a neglectful mama cause I don't clean my steed so diligently.

She's at the shop right now getting a winter overhaul but.. geeze.. I guess I should plan to give her a little tlc of my own when I get her home!!

[Triskeliongirl]

Umm, T-girl? I have Frogs, but I didn't know they required lubing. How often and with what?

I put some waxy lube on a q-tip, and run it on the contact points of both the cleat and pedal. I do this after washing, and whenever clipping in/out isn't pefectly smooth. You also have to inject grease into the injector ports, but I've never done that, its an every couple of year kind of thing, although I did buy myself the grease fun for christmas this year. You can read about it at the speedplay website.

[DebW]

although I did buy myself the grease fun for christmas this year. You can read about it at the speedplay website.

Ooo, good typo. For those of us who have fun with grease? A grease fun gun. Fun with a grease gun. Personally, I have more fun when I get my fingers in the grease. A grease gun is so sterile by comparison.

[Triskeliongirl]

Ooo, good typo. For those of us who have fun with grease? A grease fun gun. Fun with a grease gun. Personally, I have more fun when I get my fingers in the grease. A grease gun is so sterile by comparison.

Well, we don't take chirstmas very seriously in my house. This year we did a multicultural display with a christmas tree, kwanza display, huge menorah our son made from pipe tubing, festivus pole, and shrine to the parthenogenic lizard. Then we scatter presents around it all, not real expensive stuff, just stuff we really want, and I really wanted a grease gun, so yes it was FUN!

[Brandi]

Thanks for reminding me that I need to wash my bike and my truck!. Or I should say me and my dh's truck (we have only one car, it works for us).

[equus123]

I'm super anal about cleaning my bike. The weather has been super cold here for the last several weeks and riding outside is not an option for me when it gets below 30 degrees air temp + windchill factor. No way jose. What the heck are the odds of giving my bike a bath and then riding outside like 2 days later - 40 degrees and no wind. Haha, as I was riding I was getting mad whenever I had to go through a wet, sandy spot or half-melted road salt. All I could think about was the need to whipe down my down tube and the fear of seeing all those little bastard pieces of sand stuck to my once-shiny silver chain and cassette.