Re:I need your tips and tricks...
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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Warden wrote:
An old trick to preserve the finish is to smear creamy peanut butter on the rims after cleaning them. It puts a protective finish on so they don't get dirty or gummy with road salts or oils.
There's a couple of drawbacks though...
1) It looks like crap.
2) Squirrels and dogs can't stop licking your wheels.
If you'll dust 'em with powdered sugar, they taste much better.
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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I bought a brush for cleaning out the vent on the clothes dryer. It's about 2ft long and you can bend it or fold it to just about any shape. Get in all the tight spots just soap it up and go to town. You can even reach in and rap it around the hub and scrub. So put the bike on a lift, take it all the way up on very level ground, get one of those coolers that will at least hold a six pac, sit on it spin the wheel and scrub. Then dry them off good and use spray wax and a big fat shoe lace to shine them up. Takes a while so you may have to refill the cooler before moving onto the next wheel.
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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I'am good to go with the personal touch. Bofish
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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my solution was to powder coat spokes black, left the chrome rim, gloss black hub, very glad I finally did it, just couldn't stand dull spokes anymore.
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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Hi, here's a brush that I swear by. It's great for spokes and anywhere else that is tight & awkward to get at. http://www.bikebrush.com/. ~ dave |
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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oprah wrote:
Hi, here's a brush that I swear by. It's great for spokes and anywhere else that is tight & awkward to get at. http://www.bikebrush.com/. ~ dave
Although I thought your show, and your new channel are silly, this is good advice. I think somebody else mentioned something similar several post back.
Gordon
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Re:I need your tips and tricks... 1 Year, 2 Months ago
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Amazon has the polishing cones. I think I've seen them at Walmart and Autozone too.
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Ride hard Die hard
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