Bike Maintenance
Bike Maintenance
Before you start any bike maintenance you have to clean your bike, that doesn’t mean a bit of wipe with a cloth, you have to clean it properly and there yfp-t-150-s are a few things you need to do the job, you might have to buy some equipment, but most of it can be found around the house, try under the sink, but don’t let your wife/mother catch you.
First what equipment do you need: -
- A bike workstand or handy tree/washing line to hang your bike on.
- Old rear hub or old axle or stick.
- Degreaser or diesel fuel (careful diesel is not good for your hands).
- Hot water.
- Washing up liquid.
- 2 buckets (1 with soapy and 1 with clean water).
- Paint brush.
- Old water bottle.
- Bottlebrush.
- Soft scrubbing brush.
- 2 sponges.
- Cloths.
- Oil.
- And for that extra shinny finish, spray polish.
The most important thing to remember when you are cleaning your bike is to keep your eyes open and look for anything that may need fixing later, this is how a mechanic on a самарканд карта professional team does it, but he might have 10 bikes to look after, so it’s a lot easier with only one.
Start with the wheels, cut the top off the old water bottle and put some degreaser in it, you can use a spray degreaser, but you waste most of it. With the paintbrush work the degreaser into the sprockets being careful not to get too much into the bearings. Then with some hot water and washing up liquid scrub the sprockets clean, then scrub the
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