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Location: Fredericksburg, Va
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Bikes: '65 Frejus TDF, '73 Bottecchia Giro d'Italia, '83 Colnago Superissimo, '84 Trek 610, '84 Trek 760, '88 Pinarello Veneto, '88 De Rosa Pro, '89 Pinarello Montello, '94 Burley Duet, 97 Specialized RockHopper, 2010 Langster, Tern Link D8
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It's good to know you are excited about the cleaning process. I have to work up to it anymore. I really enjoy the mechanics of bicycling and have accepted the cleaning process as a neccessary evil. I getting tired of the battle. For this process, I like to use my bare skin. For some reason it works really well faster and you can feel when you are covering the joints around the spokes. Makes a mess of your fingers but it does wash off. I like to go around the whole rim and then do the "shoe shine" approach with a clean rag to polish. Final polish is attacking the spoke area and valve stem.