One of the benefits of working for yourself is deciding how to split your workday up. Getting up with the alarm and stumbling into the “office” to get a jumpstart on the day means there is time to work on bikes in the afternoon. After typing on the computer for a number of hours I finally got to work on overhauling my Kona for the race on Sunday. As with most overhauls I do on my bikes, I start late and have a couple beers in the process. This usually leads to cleaning the important parts (pieces that touch eachother) and leaving the cosmetic stuff the way it is. This is more true for the mountain bike than the rest of the stable, but so it goes.
I am not the most attentive mechanic, meaning that I let things go for quite some time before I give them attention. But today I found myself with enough free time to pull the rear hub apart. I’m really glad I did. This is after about 15 rides since the last overhaul, most of which were in typical Oregon weather.
It would seem that a good cleaning should be done on a regular basis. Sounds fair enough.