How Triathletes Can Clean a Bike In Five Minutes

- Big ass garden hose thingamajig.
(swoosh)
Inception right?
(swoosh)
got to put my runners on, so I can run.
(swoosh)
Good morning, trainiacs and Pete and Grace.
Sorry to wake you guys up.
Oh, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Okay, I got to put my shoes on.
Got to put my runners on, so I can run.
I know you like running, you ran a lot yesterday.
As you may have heard from the last four seconds,
I am heading out for a run.
Usual Sunday run day,
with the usual gang, Coach Pat and the crew.
Followed by pancakes, waffles,
maybe a smoothie perhaps, likely.
I'm gonna save you a little bit of jibber jabber
because I know what you all came here for
was a very quick and easy way to clean your bike.
So, let's go running.
Okay, before we go, got to show you this.
Valiant effort being put up by you guys.
The old camera set up here, death defying.
That's you.
This is me, so brave, so brave.
Alright, now I go.
(mellow music)
You got those legs softened up?
Good, that's what I like to hear.
(mellow music)
(laughing)
- They can pick which Chuck-E-Cheese we go to.
(mellow music)
- Oh, you're looking good for halfway through the run.
- Oh yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
- As long that train comes around, I'm good.
- At least the award for most color coordinated runner,
goes to Jer.
- Flamboyant robocop, that's what I was going for today.
- Nailed it.
16.1 K in 4:23, Nicole.
- 4:23 pace?
- 4:23 pace.
I need three days to recover.
(mellow music)
Alright, yesterday I promised you
that I would tell you how to clean a bike in five minutes.
That might be a little optimistic,
but I'm gonna tell you how to clean a bike
really, really quickly.
Before you start, here's what you need.
You don't need this big ass garden hose thingamajig,
just any sort of garden hose
with any sort of sprayer is good.
You need a bucket, a little bit of dish soap.
Fill the bucket with dish soap and water, bam!
(water spraying)
You need a sponge for said bucket
full of dish soap and water.
Some degreaser, park tool chain cleaner,
a little bit of lube.
Park tool chain cleaner should come with this little brush
and then a whole bunch of rags.
So, we are going to put you right there.
(dog barking)
Dog emergency, hang on, hey.
Alright, crisis adverted.
But you are still just filthy.
Oh, you need some clothes
that you are totally cool with getting filthy
and then you clean a bike.
We're gonna set the timer on here
and we're gonna see how long it takes.
Keep in mind
that I'm going to be moving around the GoPro as we go.
GoPro as we go.
Three, two, one, start.
Number one, you want to start with the chain
because we're going to get all the grime
off of that chain and it's going to go everywhere
and we'll clean it up after it goes everywhere.
Start by about 50 rotations of the chain.
Man, the chain is clean.
Flip the bike over, give it a quick hit with water
and then take your wheels off.
You take the wheels off
so we can get to the rest of the bike
and we give the wheels just a quick cleaning
all the way around.
Oh, you're really tight.
Phew, who put that on?
Wheel number two, the rear wheel.
This is where things get a little more complicated.
But now we gotta clean off this.
How you do that, old bike shop trick,
and pour it along the edge of one of your rags.
You work the rag into all the little cogs
and go one by one,
kinda like flossing your cogs.
Now take your little scrubby brush,
just knock out that last little bit of grime.
Hit it with a little bit of water,
make all that grease go away.
(water spraying)
How sparkling is that?
And you go ahead and clean the bike,
top to bottom with a scrub brush.
Then hit it with the hose.
(water spraying)
throw the wheels back on.
And just for shoots,
if you want to give it one last cleaning,
when it's propped up nicely like this,
it's not the worst idea.
(water spraying)
We aren't quite done yet.
We gotta still give that chain a little bit of lovin'.
Dry off the chain.
And the very, very last thing before we're done,
is to take some good wet lube,
spin it through all the gears.
There we go, that's it.
We are at 13:59:70 and that includes messing around
with the GoPro a whole bunch.
So, in 14 minutes, you can have yourself a nice bike.
There's no reason not to do this every couple of weeks.
It'll make your bike faster,
make it last longer.
You'll enjoy training a lot more
because it feels faster and it looks really slick.
Now I gotta go put this whole mess away.
I wonder how long that'll take?
Gonna head to the office
and I think it's Facebook live day today, yeah.
Facebook live Q and A, we'll do that.
Alright, we're gonna do a Sunday evening Facebook live.
A couple of weeks ago, I promised that I'd do more of these
and I haven't been very good at that,
so we're gonna do one right now.
I think I've got a good format going
because there are a lot of questions
in the YouTube comments.
By the way, love your questions in the comments,
ask more of them.
But, I have a hard time typing out long repsonses
to some of these.
So, Facebook live, check this out.
YouTube questions, Facebook live.
So now, I can all of a sudden get to these questions
on Facebook live.
Three, two, one.
Hey, what's up trainiacs?
This is Taren, I know that a couple of weeks ago,
I promised that I would be doing--
a fun little note for you,
we are also filming tomorrow's vlog
of Triathlon Taren as we speak, look at that.
That's you, that's the vlog.
You, you, you, you.
Inception right?
Yeah, that's right.
Hey, there we go, we got comments.
Michael Boona, hi.
It's because the sprint distances races
took out a lot of the variables of nutrition.
Ryan, why is the USA so much better at sports than Canada?
Number one, you have ten times more people.
Number two, you have twice as long as you can be outside.
Number three, you have bazillion dollars more money
going into your sports.
'Kay, that's it.
I'm gonna wrap it up, I gotta get home to Kim.
Thank you all for tuning in.
Thank you, vlog, later trainiacs.
Ha, later!

How Triathletes Can Clean a Bike In Five Minutes

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