Mud. It gets everywhere.
Don't get me wrong. I love cross. It is the best from of cyclesport, ever. But it is hard on equipment. Sure, the Battersea proto is designed and specced to take this sort of abuse, but now living in a top floor apartment I do find bike cleaning a bit, er ... difficult.
So after the Purdown Race today, the bike was a mess. Faced with the problem of how the hell to clean the bike in my "Fight Club" apartment, I decided to head to the car wash. The dudes are the car wash were more than slightly perplexed that I wanted the bike cleaned and not the car - but when they saw the state of it, I think they got the idea.
And they jumped in will full enthusiasm, blasting every last bit of mud off the bike, pulling all the grass out of the cassette and the jockey wheels - they even shampooed it down!
Ok, I am well aware that high pressure cleaning is hardly the best way to take care of a bike, so the next step was getting the bike onto the workstand pronto to properly dry and re-lube it, but what a pleasure to have a clean bike - especially after getting it completely plastered.
Thank goodness for car washes.
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