maintenence
 

How often does everyone hear clean their bike? By clean I mean complete over-haul. Take everything apart scrub it all down re-oil and re-grease everything.

Never

Usually just when I feel like it needs it. The road bike every couple of months. The MTB varies depending on the weather, but I do it more often. At least a good drivetrain overhaul.

it really depends on the weather. in the winter...once every month and in the summer once every 3 months or so

People do that?

lol yes people do that. atleast my dad and my uncle do...

thanks for the help everyone.

After any ride that gets the bb under water, or a ride that is real muddy, otherwise once a month I take the fork off and lube/clean the headset, I also take the BB out and do the same. Externally after nearly every ride. Also the chain after nearly every ride. On my bike with v brakes I take the arms off the posts and clean/lube every couple months or so. I do a lot of part swapping around from bike to bike and you can't imagine how cruddy these things get inside after a couple of wet or muddy rides. I rarely lube cables mainly because you can change them out for 3 bucks, it's just not worth the effort.

One thing I learned, after a cruddy ride I stop off at the car wash on the way home, blast away with the pressure washer, speed home like a mad-man to air dry then spray lube all over everything when I get home and let it soak overnight. The next day I wipe off the excess lube and I'm good to go again. Note: if you ever use a pressure washer you really need to completely disassemble everything periodically and lube.