Pressure washers

I've got a mate with one, exactly the same as my Mobi.

Cool, I shall order one and save myself £65

Personally I really wouldn't bother. They aren't very good and the water pressure is the root cause as it's too low to do anything other than to wash away the loosest of mud. Save up a bit more and get a Worx Hydroshot, it's so much better.

If you don't want to stretch to a worx shot, don't buy a mobi. Buy one of the hand pump jobs. £20 and about as effective.

I have a hand pump. I'm buying a worx shot. They're the tits.

Worx Hydroshot

I've tryed this, but I liked the convenience of the integrated tank as it'd save me having to carry 2 separate items up/down the stairs (Hydroshot and bucket).

My cleaning OCD will always impose me to brush off the whole bike anyway, so I am more after something that gets the loose mud off and wets the stuck one, as well as something that quickly and efficiently rinses the bike after I brushed it. Unfortunately it still sounds like a lot of work, but it's the best I can aim to with given my constraints.

My cleaning OCD

Now I know why you ride through all that mud. Because you may as well get your bike proper dirty to justify the cleaning :)

Get yourself a 1/2” bolt, drill a 1.5mm hole down the middle, stick it down the end of the hose pipe, a good jubilee to hold it in place and you have an effective jet washer for bikes. Very quick, very cheap, takes up no space and does as good a job as a jet washer. Chucked my jet washer on eBay after doing this.

Yeah, but don't tell my wife

If only I had a hose, or a power outlet for that matter..

Yeah I'm in the same situation, second floor flat and no outdoor area. I keep my Mobi filled up in a cupboard in our lobby area so when I get home I can grab it without tracking shit through the house first. It's the most convenient way for me.

Preach.

At least I have an outdoor area and a bike stand which makes it much easier, but still need water and power. The Mobi/Jegs pressure washer would be already a big improvement over 2 buckets and a sponge, albeit it not being the dream bike cleaning porn setup of my dreams

Yeah, the Wiggle Mobis are an open design thats reused everywhere. Same product. I have one for the same reasons, 6th floor flat, no garden, no hosepipe. London life etc etc..

It's 'fine' for clearing mud. Definitely needs more power but convenience trumps.

I got sick of coming in frozen and knackered from some stupid long winter training ride and having to clean the bike so the battery sprayer with the 20L capacity or whatever is great for knocking the bulk of the salty road shit or mud or whatever off quickly so you can bring the bike inside without ruining carpets left and right.

I used the Jobs/Moby for the first time today. I did not find pressure to be an issue (using it from 15 to 50cm from the target) and got all the mud off quickly. Then brushed it with a bit of soapy water and rinsed it off clean in a total of 15min, versus 1h it'd take me all by hand, all for a tenth of the pain.

Now I need to find the right balance between my OCD and the water tank capacity (17L) as today I was having so much fun one full tank ended up not being enough

Of course there's a thread for this. Compact pressure washer recommendations for car and building cleaning? Karcher K3 compact looks to fit the bill but always worth checking what else is out there.

I want to get a snow foam gun for my rubbish washer, but I don't know anything about the fittings. Mine looks like the below, is this a Karcher style fitting? Would pretty much any Karcher fit gun fit that?

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Ryobi has a cordless pressure washer that fits on the end of a regular hose. Can’t get more compact than that.

Yep, but can't guarantee that the fitments are identical. It'll only cost about £15 for a cheapie foam lance from Ebay, so not a disaster if it doesn't fit.

Seller of the one I thought would work has said it absolutely won't work, so not sure what to do now 🤷🏼‍♂️