Very slightly off topic but Colin's ingenuity resonates with one of the cycling cartoons from the late much-missed Johnny Helms. Old codger (balding, 60s) watches far older codger (80s, bald, beard) pumping up tyres on a couple of bikes. Elder says to what seems to be son 'it's about time you learned how to pump up your own tyres'. Like most of Helms, probably influenced by observation of the cyclng community he lived in and kept so amused for 50 plus years. John Purser Sudbury, England
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:42:32 -0800 (PST) From: Colin Laing <colin_laing@yahoo.com> Subject: [CR] Cleaning dirty bike parts / and bikes. To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Message-ID: <107659.81503.qm@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I don't know why I'm commenting on this subject, but, the method I use has been time-tested for the past 48 years,,i.e., I instruct my wife to do it, whilst I loll back and have a pint of Guiness, Whatever method she uses is probably her secret , but the bikes always look spick and span when I need to go for a ride. She also seems to have the mechanical adjustments down to a fine art ( which reminds me, I think she needs to put a new chain on my red bike )..
So, my method is to trust the wife, providing the food doesn't smell like cleaning fluids later..( I bought her some neat rubber gloves for Christmas )
Colin Laing in blue-skied, sunny Chandler Az..USA