Q7. If your cycle is wet or muddy, and your store it indoors, how do you prevent it from making your place a mess?
I am surprised how much dirt and leaves can come in just from wet tires.
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@ascentale
A7:
when I used to keep the bike(s) in the house
I had a thick, cheap dept store runner carpet in the door hallway just for that
@bikenite
A7. At work I bring my bike into my office. I'm a biology professor with a small research lab of my own, so I keep a watering can in the lab and use it to rinse off my bike when it gets particularly gritty. I also have a boot tray under the bike to catch water. It all mostly works. Mostly.
@ascentale @bikenite A7: I live in an appartment. Outdoors the bike gets a spray from whatever is left of the water bottle, then by the time it goes through the hallway, elevator and basement it drips most dirt. Then I wipe the rest off with some old rags, put it in the storage cubicle where there is some plastic bags. I sweep up the leaves/gravel/dirt from the floor.
The chain gets a separate wiping if roads were very muddy, and maybe some oil every week if it's a bad season. #bikenite
@ascentale @bikenite
A7) my work is picky about that(*), so I bring my folding bike inside in the standard tissue blue IKEA Frakta bag. It contains the mess.
(*)bikes technically not allowed inside
A7. My workplace is the same. No one has objected to my Minoura stand in my office, though. Until about a year ago, when my knees took a turn for the worse, I would carry my bike in through the back door and up two flights of stairs to my office. Now I roll it through the front doors and onto the elevator. No one has complained. But I don't cycle to the office when it's raining.
A7. Our place has dedicated underground bicycle parking, with a ramp + bicycle escalator in addition to two elevators. Everyone just rolls their bikes in wet / muddy and parks them as is. The building maintenance crew clean the floor periodically and one of the managers inspects from time to time.
When I want to wash a bike I bring it up the freight elevator to the Workshop in the Sky (aka the balcony) and hose it down with a Karcher sprayer, spray and brush with Muc-Off as needed, then spray off with the Karcher again.
@ascentale @bikenite A7. Unlike the dogs, our bikes are outside bikes. Still working on better storage conditions.
Wet can be toweled down at the entryway, but mud? That'd stay outside no matter what.
A tarp with uprolled edges( if you see what I mean) is enough to hold all the drips my bike will produce from one dowsing. I have had to mop it between rides
@ascentale @bikenite A7 I hose it down outside, and let it drip there if I can, but if I have to bring it in it goes in the kitchen because there are tiles and I can wash them afterwards.
@ascentale
A7: I stored my bike inside for many years. When just wet (post commute on city roads), I was limiting the damage by having a "bike mat" on the floor. It's just a very long mat (long enough for a standard bike)
@bikenite
A7. No prevention. Get it into place, wipe bicycle down with a microfiber rag, then clean up the floor. And myself
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