Second winter service for the Surly Long Haul Trucker in 2010 at 8,397 km. A full service history for the bicycle can be found here. This service consisted of: Cleaning the chain using a Park Tools CM-5 Cyclone Chain Scrubber. Once it was clean I applied Rock and Roll Gold chain lube; Checking of chain [...]
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Surly Long Haul Trucker 500 km service – June 2010
First winter service for the Surly Long Haul Trucker in 2010 at 7,475 km. Pretty much on time for a change. A full service history for the bicycle can be found here. This service consisted of: Cleaning the chain using a Park Tools CM-5 Cyclone Chain Scrubber. Once it was clean I applied Rock and [...]
Cleaning my Bicycles
Particularly with winter coming up keeping my bikes clean is becoming more important and hence I service and clean my bikes every 500 km during winter and spring and every 1,000 km during summer and autumn. My approach to cleaning my bikes is modelled on the process described in the Park Tool’s Big Blue Book [...]
Look 555 1,000 Summer Service – Fourth service in 2010
My Look 555 received its fourth service for 2010, a 1,000 kilometre service at 15,514 km, approximately 1,549 km since the last service. I try to do regular services at 500 km intervals (winter-spring) and 1,000 km services during the summer-autumn period. This will be the last 1,000 kilometre service until summer 2010 now. Anyway, [...]
