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Getting bike brushes clean after cleaning your bike?

  • 19-06-2013 3:16pm
    #1
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭


    Right, strange question.

    Broke the brushes and bucket and spray bottle out to clean the tri-cross, long overdue to be honest, it was covered in ****e.

    Got the bike spick and span and lubed up, took some doing to get the gunk off the drive train but worth the effort.

    Anyway, now the bike is clean the brushes are covered in gunk.

    I have them soaking in a bucket of hot water with fairy liquid and a little degreaser.

    Was going to leave them in that for an hour and then just run them under a tap.


    Any other/better ways to do it?


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  • #2
    trek climber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭trek climber


    Good question - have the same problem myself ...


  • #3
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Dish washer? I haven't tried it, so that's not a recommendation.


  • #4
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Bike brush cleaning brush!

    There was an old lady who swallowed a fly....


  • #5
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    Dish washer? I haven't tried it, so that's not a recommendation.

    I do need to run the dishwasher through one of those self cleaning cycles with a bottle of that sun dishwasher cleaner ****e... could always sneak them into that...


  • #6
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Seaneh wrote: »
    I do need to run the dishwasher through one of those self cleaning cycles with a bottle of that sun dishwasher cleaner ****e... could always sneak them into that...
    I trust you have an understanding co-owner of dishwasher?

    :D


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  • #7
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    leave them soaking in de-greaser.

    or try Gunk http://www.gunk.com/products/cat_SCD_GPD.asp not sure if it would melt the brushes though.
    Seaneh wrote: »
    I do need to run the dishwasher through one of those self cleaning cycles with a bottle of that sun dishwasher cleaner ****e... could always sneak them into that...

    I've a few bits and pieces that could do with a run through the dishwasher too. Any chance??? Group buy perhaps?


  • #8
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    endacl wrote: »
    I trust you have an understanding co-owner of dishwasher?

    :D

    Hmmm... maybe i can just run them through a normal cycle (with no dishes!) and then run the self clean... might be a better option...

    And, eh, what they don't know won't hurt them?


  • #9
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    How about a blasht of a power washer? I wouldn't use it on a bike, but would probably be just the thing for the brushes.


  • #10
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    endacl wrote: »
    How about a blasht of a power washer? I wouldn't use it on a bike, but would probably be just the thing for the brushes.

    I don't have one, boo.


  • #11
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Go down and wash the car*. Give the brushes a blasht when the car is done.





    * May need to buy/borrow a car if you don't have one. You can borrow mine. It needs a wash. :D


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  • #12
    sixpack's little hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭sixpack's little hat


    Try putting them in some coke? It works for battered old coins and similar


  • #13
    Soarer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Soarer


    That'll teach ya to clean your bike! ;)


  • #14
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Soarer wrote: »
    That'll teach ya to clean your bike! ;)
    True dat! There's no such thing as 'cleaning'. There's only 'moving dirt to somewhere else'!


  • #15
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    endacl wrote: »
    True dat! There's no such thing as 'cleaning'. There's only 'moving dirt to somewhere else'!

    well, really i just need to move the dirt from around the drivetrain to give my chain and cassette a little more life before they die (which isn't far off).

    Decided to be a smarty pants and wash the whole thing while I was it.


  • #16
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Seaneh wrote: »
    well, really i just need to move the dirt from around the drivetrain to give my chain and cassette a little more life before they die (which isn't far off).

    Decided to be a smarty pants and wash the whole thing while I was it.
    Don't wash your smarty pants with whites!!! :eek:


  • #17
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,897 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Bucket full of white spirits should do the job, followed by a wash in soapy water.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • #18
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Brian? wrote: »
    Bucket full of white spirits should do the job, followed by a wash in soapy water.

    Kerosene/Petrol/Diesel will also work in substitute of white spirits. :)


  • #19
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,897 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    BX 19 wrote: »
    Kerosene/Petrol/Diesel will also work in substitute of white spirits. :)

    It will indeed, I find the smell of white spirits less manky than the above though.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




  • #20
    doozerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,830 ✭✭✭doozerie


    This is the reason why natural bristle brushes are recommended over brushes with synthetic bristles, as the gunk washes out of them more easily (or is supposed to, at least). It's very hard to find suitable natural bristle brushes for cleaning bikes though.

    ...I realise that this post reeks of "Well, I wouldn't start from here...", which makes me officially an auld fella with a ceap, probably chewing on a piece of hay.


  • #21
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    doozerie wrote: »
    This is the reason why natural bristle brushes are recommended over brushes with synthetic bristles, as the gunk washes out of them more easily (or is supposed to, at least). It's very hard to find suitable natural bristle brushes for cleaning bikes though.

    ...I realise that this post reeks of "Well, I wouldn't start from here...", which makes me officially an auld fella with a ceap, probably chewing on a piece of hay.

    Absolutely! Kids these days...

    In my day we'd use a badger to clean the drivetrain. Then we'd use a rabbit to clean the badger.


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  • #22
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Passed two dead badgers on the road last night. If only I'd known.


  • #23
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,407 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    studiorat wrote: »
    Passed two dead badgers on the road last night. If only I'd known.

    Dead ones are no good. It's the wrigglin' they do when you tickle them, you see. Works the fur into all the crevices. Think about it. A half a day scrubbing with a dead badger, or half an hour tickling a live one?


  • #24
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    endacl wrote: »
    Dead ones are no good. It's the wrigglin' they do when you tickle them, you see. Works the fur into all the crevices. Think about it. A half a day scrubbing with a dead badger, or half an hour tickling a live one?

    it's a no brainer when you put it like that.


  • #25
    Dotsie~tmp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭Dotsie~tmp


    Brian? wrote: »
    It will indeed, I find the smell of white spirits less manky than the above though.

    Then just buy odourless white spirits (mineral oil) ). Only thing I use now. 4/5 water 1/5 spirit to degunk the chain with chain clean tool rag drying after. Do this 2- 3 times get most of the mess away neatly. Then detatch wheels and hit the cog with soapy water with spirit dashed in. Now hot the frame/hubs with hot soapy and a dash of mineral to degrease. Wheels back on and i might do one more dilute chain run and the soak the frame with last of the basin. Gleaming nd no smell.

    All this on a few pages of yesterdays paper. The paper takes all the gunk which always looks like its gonna ruin the grass underneath but its always bone dry when i bag the paper.


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