During my Schengen sojourn, the bike was happy as a hog in muck - and, of course, got muddy to the headlight. I did what limited cleaning I could on the run (including debugging the headlight and indicators on a daily basis) but there are limits to what can be accomplished on the road.
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A thorough cleaning was high on the list when I got back, if only to get the rest of the bug guts out of the working parts. Bikes tend to have rather exposed engines, after all.
It took some time, and quite a lot of scrubbing and polish - but I have debugged the bike and also managed to get most of the rust off the kickstand.
Of course, it’s now spring. So as soon as you ride 5 miles, you once again have to clean the bug guts off the headlight, the forks and the back of the mirrors. The cleaning of a bike is never finished.
This is annoying, but a relatively small price to pay for riding in no more layers than jeans and a jacket.
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