Than from earlier this morning, but woke up to see out the window, a big fog, and later I heard a high-speed are sealing. Today is Friday, nothing if not too busy so wanted the lovely mountain bike riding to work. Along fairly smoothly, but the sad reminder of the work came back, rain. Cushions ~ ~ (╯ ﹏ ╰) b, the morning of the hearing under the weather, the afternoon off work to come back into a drowned rat, and very sad reminder.
Sad reminder of not just one person, and my Utility Vehicle Manufacturer all the way back to Lin Zhao, and another dirty. Still have to take good care of the next. In fact, the last mountain bike maintenance cleaning of the content (>> mountain bike maintenance (b) - Frame cleaning) not to tell the faithful how much car before it comes to cleaning the frame, and then continue to talk about today. under it. No matter what your mountain bike brand, regardless of your brand, how the quality of the mountain bike, mountain bike for us is that we must take care to do.
Frame can be finished in accordance with cleaning wheels -> dip, front derailleur, rear derailleur -> fork, pedal, brake, these vehicles in order to clean parts.
Wheels
According to this order would be introduced to you a simple cleaning and maintenance points right mountain bike parts, first round of the group, the necessary tools including brushes, cleaning cloths, detergent water them well enough. Talked about before the first start rim (>> mountain bike maintenance (a) - Rim maintenance), you need to add is that you can with a rag dipped in detergent brake pads brake over the place. Then simply scrub down to the wheel group, spokes, hubs. For hubs, remember not to use water cannons to wash, and the frame is best recommended for cleaning the same, with a washout with a cloth to wipe off later.
Sit under the package because the place is rather special, so here it is easy to accumulate large amounts of dust, the cleaning time to be cautious side and not let the mud along the seat tube flows into the gap in the seat tube clip, you can advance with a wet cloth to marl clean out.
Tires can be a little hard for some of the brush to sand and dust on tires, a simple maintenance.
Next: After the call, first call, the DIP
Clean-up finished wheels, golf buggy can handle the dip again, because the dip is more complex, and which has a lot of butter, so clean up would be more trouble. The best way to clean the dip is only gently wipe with a rag on it, without water or other cleaning. Allocated in the time before and after washing with water can wash the front where the gap until the sediment was washed out after the re-use cloth dipped in detergent. .
Thirdly: brakes, pedals, fork
When cleaning brake (I talk about V brakes friends, not to explain the disc), liquid water can be a simple direct use of rinse left in the sediment inside the brake, ready for the next maintenance.
Foot and the front fork of the main points will be cleaning the mud washed it. Mainly in the fork, since the special structure of the fork and which parts need, it is best not to wash with water, if not completely clean residual water droplets, the vehicle will affect the use of very large, it is recommended to use cloth wrung Wipe the front fork inner tube water. Front fork inner tube after a period of time some impurities remain in the top, you can gently wipe with a cotton swab, it is best to develop the habit of keeping clean fork, which fork is for the most basic maintenance.
Before and after transmission, guide wheel, roulette, etc. In fact, these places can be very simple with a clean brush off the top of the dirt, dust. These are the mountain bike maintenance clean-up in some parts of some of the maintenance requirements.