LowCel, here is the article SB is referring to: Velo News

Extreme Simple Green

I have not seen the extreme version sold anywhere local though.

As the saying goes, your mileage may vary. I use mainly warm water and mild dish soap with lots of time to soak. Pretty much exactly the opposite of what you want to do with simple green. It is very much a carry over from my mountain biking routine in that I needed to clean everything every time I rode in dirty conditions. I doubt your Colnago sees much exposure to salt melted snow mixed with washer fluid and sand in below freezing temps.

Looks like the sale is going through finally.

https://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/20...-approval.html

The drug shortages are getting crazy. I doubt this will help anything short term.

I am no buisness man, and I know there are tons of variables. But it seems to me that paying 112 million for a site that has annual revenue of 180 million that was purchased for 305 million in 2002 seems like am absurdly good deal?

There was of course a slow accumulation of pressure and heat hardened crud so I ended up trying a citrus degreaser for sporadic use to eliminate it. As the VN article took a swipe at the science I should point out that using a nearer to neutral PH cleaner,such as mild dish soap, with more elbow grease was my daily plan of attack. By soaking I am referring to repeated dowsing over the course of an hour such as is needed to dissolve mud or the drying agents in road salt.

Not yet, but it most likely will this coming winter. The "new" thing has wore off, now it's just a bike. My other bikes and all of my mountain bikes have seen all kinds of crappy conditions. I raced mountain bikes for a few years before I became a roadie.

I figured out the other day that I have owned over 30 bikes in the past ten years or so, none of them were ever babied. Some of my roadies have even seen single track action.

Thanks, I didn't even know there was an extreme version. I don't soak my chains in Simple Green. Occasionally I will put one in a coke bottle, shake it up for a minute or two then take it out. Normally I just spray some simple green on the greasy spots of my frame, on the brake tracks, on the derailleurs, chainrings, and cassette, then I use a Park Chain scrubber filled with simple green. Once I finish with the chain scrubber I take a brush to the cassette, derailleurs, and chainrings. I take a soapy rag to the frame and wheels, rinse all and done.

Takes about 5 - 10 minutes to have a bike that looks like new, with the exception of my white bar tape.

I used the regular Simple Green until my wife saw Zinn's original comments in VeloNews and said, "Hey, isn't this what you use?"

Thanks for posting that, mvnsnd. It was interesting to read the Simple Green marketing specialist comment on the issue. She probably had a hand in how they're marketing it now - Extreme Simple Green Motorsports. Covers everything from watercraft to bikes to airplanes.

For this little nugget of Simple Green cycling knowledge, this thread should be archived for BF eternity. Members and guests, hungry for cycling information, will read page after page of the Addiction thread and stumble on this page. When they do, they will finally feel fulfilled that their toil was not in waste.

Or not.

In other news, this is a good stem at a good price, if you're in the market. I used the 26 version for years.

Brake Clean for that.

You must have gotten too close to the dispensary today

Using the Finish Line stuff in poorly ventilated areas is more likely.

I'm trying to add some cycling content to this stupid thread.

You are trying the impossible

Why bother.

Nah, gives it character.

Alright, back to complaining about a wife that doesn't suck and a daughter that won't duck.

I recently stripped my white turned brackish brown cork bar tape and reversed the side it was used on. My near perfectly centered overlap the first go round meant I got a nearly all white return on my invested time. Time not spent cleaning it.

I would rather clean my tape on a regular basis than wrap my bars. That is one thing that is worth paying to get done.

Being a non moving part that was sprayed with a wet mix of stuff daily, I never bothered and was thrilled to see it look good as new over a year in. This was especially exciting considering the amount of crashes that resulted in slides over 50 feet that I had.

I'm building up for 700 posts.

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Those guys are poseurs.

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