Cleaning and washing it s fine to wash carbon bicycles and components like you would any other using warm soapy water and a hose.
Cleaning carbon bike frame.
Wash your bike frame clean and lubricate your chain lubricate your brake and derailleur levers lubricate your brake derailleur cables and your brake derailleur assemblies.
Nail polish is cheap includes a brush built into the cap and it dries fast too.
Yet as with any bike it s never a good idea to aim the water directly at bearings headsets cranks etc because that can wash the grease out.
How to clean your bike.
Step by step guide 1.
Cleaning your bike consists of four main steps.
Do not use a jet wash you ll force mud in and grease out of the important bits.
Rinse the frame.
You can use it instead of or as well as a cleaning solution.
Cleaning your bike properly takes minutes but doing so regularly could save you the cost of a whole new groupset later down the line.
Rinse again with a low pressure hose.
To take your bike cleaning to the next level jon has some top tips on how to polish.
Bike cleaning spray bike cleaning spray is a good choice if your bike is really dirty or has dried on mud and crud.
Once rinsed use mud honey a foaming bucket wash along with our madam palm microfibre wash mitt to clean the bike fully.
Like many of you here at gcn we love to keep our bikes clean and shiny.