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The rain put me off getting out on the road bike today (it had the same effect on my roadie friends) and no one wanted to go to Swinley for an MTB session. So I thought I just needed to give the road bike a light clean and put on mudguards for a club ride tomorrow.
Start cleaning the bike, all going well until I get to the drive train. Trying to clean the chain, but the black colour just will not go. So I lberally put grean clean gunk on the cassette and use one of those cassette brushes to have a go at the grime on the cassette. Recently had experienced a few odd jumps on the rear cassette when getting out of the saddle. I am now starting to think that there may be a reason for this, the chain has probably not touched the metal of the cassette in about a month, instead it has been floating on a sea of road crap.
I have just resorted to taking the entire cassette off and cleaning it cog by cog. Except the annoying ones that are clustered together, the seam on a towel has been dragged down that gap.
Miracles - my cassette is silver again. Now thinking I will have to take both chainrings off and give them similar attention.
Then both wheels should possibly go in the jig for a little truing and checking of spoke tension. Brakes could possibly be tinkered with. Ceramic braking surface could be degreased. Front mech needs a little adjustment.
I will have spent longer on cleaning the road bike than I would have been on the road today.
MTB still needs to be cleaned after last week - am starting to lose the will to live.