Originally Posted by
CliftonGK1
My beater hasn't been washed by anything other than rainshowers for 5 years, except for window cleaner on the windshield.
I change the oil once a year, clean the air filter, and check the rest of the fluid levels. It's nice having a low-cost maint. schedule when you ride more miles per year than you drive, isn't it?
Amen to that! Sounds like my maintenance routine, both from before and after I started bike commuting, since before the bike I took public transportaion. My wife's car is newer, gets better gas mileage, and has working A/C, so that's the one we normally take for road trips, etc., especially in the summer. I take the recycling in my beater car, b/c sometimes that's the only use it gets for a week or two.