How to clean your bike.
Cleaning carbon bike frame.
Rinse the frame.
Cleaning and washing it s fine to wash carbon bicycles and components like you would any other using warm soapy water and a hose.
Rinse again with a low pressure hose.
Cleaning your bike properly takes minutes but doing so regularly could save you the cost of a whole new groupset later down the line.
Once rinsed use mud honey a foaming bucket wash along with our madam palm microfibre wash mitt to clean the bike fully.
To take your bike cleaning to the next level jon has some top tips on how to polish.
Bike cleaning spray bike cleaning spray is a good choice if your bike is really dirty or has dried on mud and crud.
It will nicely touch up clear coats over natural carbon frames.
Step by step guide 1.
Cleaning your bike consists of four main steps.
Do not use a jet wash you ll force mud in and grease out of the important bits.
For a very dirty bike rinse with a low pressure hose to remove the majority of mud and grit.
Yet as with any bike it s never a good idea to aim the water directly at bearings headsets cranks etc because that can wash the grease out.
Nail polish is cheap includes a brush built into the cap and it dries fast too.
Like many of you here at gcn we love to keep our bikes clean and shiny.