Originally Posted by
noglider
Jeremy, can you hose off your bike after you get home? I feel super lucky because I live in a (small) apartment building, and people don't normally have access to an outdoor hose. Our bike room has a separate entrance from the street level, and that's where the building's hose is. I lean my bike against the outer wall of the building and hose it down.
But hmm, you're in Wisconsin, so does that make outdoor hoses completely out of season?
Yep, spigots are turned off and hoses disconnected until at least April.
As for the hose-down, I think the best I can do is bring the bike to the basement and rinse it off with warm water with just a BIT of detergent. Problem is, the bike will look like this again the very next day.
Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
Massive crash along my Route. Took out a hundred feet of the median. I have not worked out what happened.
These days, the most likely thing is DWI =
Driving
While
Intexticated. No one wants to admit it, so they lie and say they fell asleep.
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Thursday is my driving day, picking up Stanzi after work for dinner out 20 miles away. It's snowing again; we're supposed to get another inch.
My eFatty is having rear brake issues. The pistons seem to be freezing up in the calipers, probably due to rust from salt spray. I expected chain issues due to rust, but not brakes too. I may risk a drop of oil in strategic locations to free them up. Here is another advantage to rim brakes I never thought of. There just seems to be fewer things that can go wrong and they're more rugged.