Sunday, December 14, 2008

Tender Loving Care for your Bike

For many triathletes this winter, it's play time. It's the time to work on running and giving the Tri Bike a much needed rest. Before you put it up, and forget about it until it's time to start training, make sure you treat it right. All year long, we beat up our equipment merciolusly. We swim in the ocean, ride the bike full out without regard though mud puddles and sand. What does this mean? Can you say OVERHAUL? Yep, it is important that a tri bike gets torn down to the frame and rebuilt. This will keep the "baby" running smoothly for the next season. Please do not let it sit in your closet/bedroom/garage without doing this, the bill next spring will be too much to handle if rusted parts need to be replaced.
Safe and Happy Training

1 comment:

Pam said...

Of course, this assumes that you do not thoroughly CLEAN your "baby" after each ride.

And yes...most of you don't...


Also my babies sleep in the house.

That being said, most of the rest you folks have probably ignored doing this & REALLY REALLY need a complete overhaul