Spray on anti Winter stuff

[Annaz]

I've changed my mind about getting a Winter bike and decided to just ride the Spondon over Winter.

So I'm off out to Hein G's in York to get some Dr S100, or whatever you call it, but does it work?

I'm planning on using this stuff along with some ACF 50 which reckons to adhere to the metal. protecting it from road salt (which it neutralises) and other associated nasties! When it comes into contact with water it washes away. That's when the Dr S100 comes into play, during the cleaning process.

Last year I protected my bikes using WD40, which I sprayed feverishly all over the bike and just left till wash time but I found the ally bits got a bad dose of oxidised shite all over them all the same. Pretty bad when you consider I only go out in decent weather

Does anyone have a successful way of protecting from the Winter?

[dodgy_tom]

It's one of them things innit. I love to give the bikes a good wash then liberally douse in Scottoil FS365. It works well. plenty of spray in a £5 bottle.

[tonk]

Clear acrylic varnish is good on bolt heads (like wot dem girls use on fingernails). Use it on my disc bolts.

ScotoilF365 as recommended by t'others. Esp. good on end-cans, smells yummy when they get warm!

Spray-can silicon grease (not silicone. Or is it the other way round?!) into block connectors.

'Krytek' is available from mountain-bike shops, it's liquid in the bottle but sets as a fairly hard wax when you squirt it into joints - perfect for suspension linkages, no good on hot stuff though. Doesn't attract grit and turn into grinding paste like wot waxoyl can. Expensive though.

Maguars Stage 3 carnuba wax is brill on paintwork, plastic, screens, wheels. Get as many layers on as you can every time you use it. Muck quite liderally falls off with a gentle wash. Sold in Halfords. Best stuff in the world.

And fer ferks sake, clean your calipers as often as you can - pads out, toothbrush and brake cleaner. Slow or sticky or even seized brake pistons are not big or clever and are inevitable if you ride through winter in the (Y)UK.

Er, maybe a fender-extender for your front mudguard (Pyramid Plastics do most bikes, £18). Look naff but can come off again for summer and save your headers/radiators from tons of kak.

And finally, don't clean with hot water - it accelerates corrosion. That means washing your bike when it's cold too, not as soon as you get home.

All the above are tried and tested, through lots of winters. My bike hasn't suffered at all apart from the bit I posted here about the rear bulb holder electronics. Oh, and keep your battery warm, I pile old blankets on mine to insulate it when in beddy-byes, even have one at work when it's parked for 10 hours with cold air falling on it.

Have I waffled on a bit? Ok I'll stop now

[Annaz]

Clear acrylic varnish is good on bolt heads (like wot dem girls use on fingernails). Use it on my disc bolts.

ScotoilF365 as recommended by t'others. Esp. good on end-cans, smells yummy when they get warm!

Spray-can silicon grease (not silicone. Or is it the other way round?!) into block connectors.

'Krytek' is available from mountain-bike shops, it's liquid in the bottle but sets as a fairly hard wax when you squirt it into joints - perfect for suspension linkages, no good on hot stuff though. Doesn't attract grit and turn into grinding paste like wot waxoyl can. Expensive though.

Maguars Stage 3 carnuba wax is brill on paintwork, plastic, screens, wheels. Get as many layers on as you can every time you use it. Muck quite liderally falls off with a gentle wash. Sold in Halfords. Best stuff in the world.

And fer ferks sake, clean your calipers as often as you can - pads out, toothbrush and brake cleaner. Slow or sticky or even seized brake pistons are not big or clever and are inevitable if you ride through winter in the (Y)UK.

Er, maybe a fender-extender for your front mudguard (Pyramid Plastics do most bikes, £18). Look naff but can come off again for summer and save your headers/radiators from tons of kak.

And finally, don't clean with hot water - it accelerates corrosion. That means washing your bike when it's cold too, not as soon as you get home.

All the above are tried and tested, through lots of winters. My bike hasn't suffered at all apart from the bit I posted here about the rear bulb holder electronics. Oh, and keep your battery warm, I pile old blankets on mine to insulate it when in beddy-byes, even have one at work when it's parked for 10 hours with cold air falling on it.

Have I waffled on a bit? Ok I'll stop now

Not at all Tonk, cheers for the effort it's given me a fair bit to think about.

I'm off to raid the kid's piggybank!

[kwakbiker]

Some good stuff there Tonk, only thing id do different is wash the bike when I get home to get the grime while its still runny rather than dried on, also use FS365+wd40, worked for me in some very crap weather

[badcherrys]

nice on Annaz i was thinking about wot to put on my bike over the winter