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On the way back from Sainsburys today I stopped to ask the D Hamlets car wash service if they clean bikes and they did it for me there and then, no charge. All the nasty grit pressure-washed out of the chain in seconds. Completely made my day, they did.


And they were pretty cute, too. Bit of a Diet Coke break moment.


Anyone else had an uplifting moment in East Dulwich?

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had one in there a while back. back seats and seatbelts were covered in and beginning to reek, vomit. was foul as hell.(chundering child on way back from broadstairs) I had under the amount of money for an internal valet.

They got stuck in there and did it for whatever dosh i had. next time i went back there and tipped. cute too, noticed.

Nice story!

Ms B Bike - bicyle or motorcycle?

My Motorbike is FILTHY!!!


Ms B Wrote:

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> On the way back from Sainsburys today I stopped to

> ask the D Hamlets car wash service if they clean

> bikes and they did it for me there and then, no

> charge. All the nasty grit pressure-washed out of

> the chain in seconds. Completely made my day, they

> did.

>

> And they were pretty cute, too. Bit of a Diet Coke

> break moment.

>

> Anyone else had an uplifting moment in East

> Dulwich?

Without wanting to sound a bit of a techie - watch that the jet spray hasn't pushed out the grease in the headset, bottom bracket and casette etc; otherwise you'll be seizing up! (the bike that is) Bike mechanics in the tour use a mixture of oil and water (bet you didn't that). Not called Sprocket for nothing!

Sprocket

I think Ms B they tend to use 'wd40' (a silicon spray) which doesn't attract and retain dirt as readily as oil.

Spraying it on is also much more user friendly than an oil can.

Use it outside as it has an initial odour and of course it is pressurised so it might stray past the area you are lubricating.

Head set is where the handlebars meet the frame.

Bottom bracket is where the pedals meet the frame.

Cassette is a tape for music or audio book as far as I know, I have no idea what that is on a bike.

SteveT, I think the cassette is the bit now going "squee, squee, squee". Hmm. Could be a job for Mlteenie as have WD40'd everything in sight, including tiled garden path (now slip hazard). The only time I really, really miss my ex-partner to the point of wanting to phone him is when something goes wrong with the bike.

Moved in to ED on Sunday and on the Monday had some home made scrumptious pies delivered which came with a very thoughtful 'welcome to ED' message in it and also our neighbour dropped in a lovely bottle of red.. We were both quite blown away by it yesterday and it really cemented the reasons why we moved here..


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