We’re all trying our best to look after the environment in any way we can. We’d also recommend thoroughly degreasing and lubricating your drivetrain every few hundred miles to keep it moving smoothly. Making time for a regular clean will help to extend the life of your bike’s components and moving parts, as well as keeping it looking as good as new. Maybe I should just run it into the ground? The brakes are capable of stopping it fine, the tyres aren't cracked and it's screwed together well, that much I am confident of.A clean bike not only looks nicer, but the parts often last longer and it’ll ride better too! So, how often should we be cleaning our bikes? This depends on a few factors: how often you ride your bike, the time of year, and typically how dirty your bike gets. If I can keep it up, I could get a real beauty of a bike from the cycle to work scheme. Hence I bought that cheap little folding bike on my other thread - it's going to be returned due to not being right for me and now I'm digging out this old bike, cleaning it up and hoping to get maybe another year from it. You see, my issue is, the pads, the tuning of the gears, two new tyres and a wheel true, is it worth doing to an old bike which was £220 new and in the end up sold for £70 new? Probably not. The tyres are also worn too, I was going to ask them if they are worth replacing and for the cost. Maybe they have a quick way to correct this? I suspect the wheels may be slightly bent too. Now, a few years on, it's also loosened up and though it works, is rather sludgey from chain oil and weather and periods of no use taking their toll. When I came back, he had fitted an entirely new derailleur (a noticeable older model, not sure if it was used) and charged £30. Since I got it from Halfords gear 4/5 never really sat right (I suspect actually that either the handlebar clicker or the gears didn't add up or weren't compatible to be honest) so I was hoping to have that sorted. I took the gears / derailleur to be adjusted at one of the local / reputable LBS workshops nearby in 2017, hoping he'd tune up my gears properly. They're too charred / ruined and dirty to tell in person. The pads are now wore down to the backing plates / unevenly and I can't seem to find the bits online. The brakes work, but I've poorly adjusted them over time as much as I can accidentally have managed to do (using the twists and adjustments which I'm sure I didn't get perfect). Maybe people with neglected bikes that haven't been out of the shed in ten years or more. The free healthcheck at Halfords is, (I'd imagine), designed to drum up business in the form of repairs / replacements from people who may not have naturally gone there for anything anyway. They're actually very good for parts if your bike came from there, my daughter bent the derailleur hanger on her Carrera and I was in and out in exactly two minutes with the correct replacement part to swap at home. Halfords don't really have "cheap suitable bits knocking about the workshop", they have access to a pretty full range of basic spares for the ranges that they sell, plus a few that are a bit better, so much like any LBS. He does happen to be a retailer / dealer for Genesis, Brompton etc, but it's a proper workshop, and not expensive for repairs. I have no issues with Halfords, although if I needed work doing my bike would go to the original dealer LBS just because I know he's very good and he knows his stuff. If it's a basic health check to put your mind at rest (and things just haven't been looked at in 5 years), I'd ask the LBS. (And by the way what isn't right with the bike? You didn't say). Is that what yours is like? If you go into a normal LBS, tell them what's not quite right with the bike, and that you need a basic fix with basic components, they should do that with no issues. one or two shops local to me are high end places with wall to wall carbon Emondas and Dogmas and yes, even I would be put off taking a Raleigh into those. Often they offer you a choice up front, so maybe you have a snapped gear cable and ask for it to be replaced, an LBS will generally offer a choice between a generic basic cable or a "better" one, like Jagwire for instance.īut I think know what you might mean. Don't worry, any normal bike shop won't just be stocking expensive and quality components, in fact most will fit "basic" parts unless you specify otherwise.
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