Originally Posted by
Dan333SP
My bike is a total mess. No rain rides, but plenty of morning dew and road crud coating everything. If I do this mountain weekend in May, I'll need to give it a scrub and probably fix some strange shifting issues most likely associated with a bent hanger.
I put the bike up on the Aldi stand just to test it out. "Since it's there," I thought, "I might as well pull the crankset and take care of that little
crik-crik that I've been meaning to address..."
....and then it cascaded from there. Chain is kind dirty - let's soak it. Jockey wheels are yuk - let's scrape 'em, etc, etc.