After a bunch of wet riding, a good wipe down of the black grime off the rims and scrub the brakepads could be good. That black filth grinds away brakepads and eventually even rim side walls. Do you know how to check your chain for stretch? Some people just swap out their chain every 2000 miles (or some other convenient interval).
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:52:08 PM UTC-7, Smitty wrote: > > Sounds to me that all you need to do is swap out tires and keep > pedaling... assuming everything else (brakes, detailers, etc) works fine. > > One thing to consider... would be to get some degreaser and clean your > drive train. Probably not mandatory though. > > --Smitty > > > > > On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:31:16 PM UTC-7, Zack wrote: >> >> So I just went through my first winter of Riv ownership in New England. >> For those of you that don't know, we had a very very mild winter and are >> currently experiencing a crazy hot spell. I think that winter is pretty >> much done (I have never seen anything like this, very weird stuff). I can >> see it getting cold again for a bit, but not turning to winter again. We >> shall see I guess. >> >> At any rate, I had studded tires on the bike and rode most of the winter. >> I haven't done anything other than cleaning and lubing the chain and the >> occasional wipe down. >> >> What kind of tune up do you guys do before the long biking season begins? >> >> >> My bike was new to me in August or so, I am guessing I don't have cables >> to replace or anything like that, but just wondering what you do to >> maintain/start the new season. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/QgsTxUwFFgcJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
