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mrs mtx

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Pembrokeshire
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new bike has arrived 🙌
Matts had to go take it to the bike shop today though as the seat stem needs cutting 😫
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
What’s the basic maintenance things I should be doing when my new bike comes?
I currently wash Bertha when dirty with muckoff, I used to spray wd40 on the chain but after the last service the man advise I use squirt chain lube? I don’t overly rate it, my chain is significantly rustier looking. He applied it for me and said to re apply every 100 miles in the wet or 500 in the dry?

Anyway I’d like to look after this one a little better but I just have no idea what I should be doing after each ride/monthly/yearly etc
Definitely agree on WD40 it cleans but doesn't lubricate, use a proper chain lubricant.
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
That makes sense. I ordered muc off chain cleaner and dry lube in the end. Even ordered a brush to wash her :smug:
I am using Muc Off dry at the mo. Rode in the rain a couple of weeks ago, the following trip out I didnt bother to lube the chain, did about 10 miles and the squeak was getting very annoying,I stopped in a shop and bought some 3 in 1 oil, perfect squeak gone. Was looking for olive oil I thought that a more likely find in a village post office. :ROFLMAO:

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s line

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On Sunday me and friend set our self a challenge to do 100 miles. So went to the Severn bridge and back. Had to a few detours around the forest of Dean to get the miles in. Also called into a dairy farm i know who had started selling milk from a vending machine. Also ice cream as well. Had to try it out.
 

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mrs mtx

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Location
Pembrokeshire
On Sunday me and friend set our self a challenge to do 100 miles. So went to the Severn bridge and back. Had to a few detours around the forest of Dean to get the miles in. Also called into a dairy farm i know who had started selling milk from a vending machine. Also ice cream as well. Had to try it out.
Finally worked out who you are on here :smug:🙌:ROFLMAO:
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
If you do it I don’t recommend the gravel track into Yarmouth. 2 punctures in a few hundred meters.

Originally we were going to do the Randonee in May. With one thing and another it was cancelled so we did it yesterday anyway. The route is clearly marked most of the time but it is also on the Randonee website so I downloaded it to my Wahoo.

If you stop for lunch by the sea in Ventnor it’s a big climb out afterwards. Very pleased I didn’t have a beer.

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s line

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If you do it I don’t recommend the gravel track into Yarmouth. 2 punctures in a few hundred meters.

Originally we were going to do the Randonee in May. With one thing and another it was cancelled so we did it yesterday anyway. The route is clearly marked most of the time but it is also on the Randonee website so I downloaded it to my Wahoo.

If you stop for lunch by the sea in Ventnor it’s a big climb out afterwards. Very pleased I didn’t have a beer.

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Did you stop at the spyglass in Ventnor?
On my mountain bike i did the route all along through brightstone forest all along track's on top of the hills. Ended up going through the golf course in freshwater. Then on to the needles. That was a great ride. No puncture though.
 

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