Clean your bike, clean and lube or replace your chain as required, adjust gears and brakes, installation of cables, housings, brake pads and other parts as required, comprehensive wheel truing, inflate and inspect tires including installation of tubes or tires as required, tighten any loose hardware and test ride.
The Complete Overhaul $109.95*
All the stuff we do in “The Complete Tune-Up” above plus the disassembly, inspection and re-packing of the hubs, headset and bottom bracket with new ball bearings, waterproof grease, a thoughrough cleaning of the drive train and installation of any replacement parts required.
Ther phrase I am mainly questioning is what would you consider the phrase “Clean your bike” to mean
I would say it means wipe the frame down with a rag. Perhaps spray the bike with that pink Finish Line Bike Wash stuff if they are really ambitious. BTW that Bike Wash is the sh*t. It is the only thing that will remove sticky dripped Power Gels and dried suggary drink splashes that get coated with road grime (no, I do not work for Finish Line).
Would you or wouldn’t you expect a clean bike though? I expected to get back a clean bike, meaning that everything that needed grease and oil had it and everything that didn’t need it would be clean. Am I off here? I will post some pictures later perhaps if there is interest.
I would expect at least a good wipe down of the bike frame/fork, brakeset and wheelset, and the handlebar/shifters/brake levers . I wouldn’t necessarily expect a super clean cog, crankset or bb, but why wouldn’t they if they say they’re going to clean your bike?
I clean bikes here and there to make some cash on the side. I also charge $50. I offer the following:
clean chain with citrus degreaser using park cyclone, regrease with Phil Wood Tenacious Oil, clean off excess oil
clean entire bike with a light soap (I use Mother’s Car Wash) to remove road dirt, etc.
Lube entire bike with WD-40 to get water out (WD stands for “Water Displacement” in case you didn’t know), so it gets the water out from inside your derailleur, etc.
Light lube of derailleurs, brake calipers, cables, pedals, and levers with Teflon lube
Final clean-up of whole bike with Bike Lust polish
Double check wheel true, shifting, tires for debris, loose hardware
Test ride
Light wipe down following test ride of lube that may have sprayed off chain, run off derailleurs/brakes/levers during first ride (some always does)
I could take a picture of what bikes look like after I’ve done this whole thing, which takes me about 90 minutes or so. But to put it summarily, it GLISTENS. Like showroom floor finish. If I worked at a bike shop, I’d probably have to charge more and or work more quickly, but I’d still say I’d be ballpark close.
Clean bike means “holy shit that thing is clean,” in my book…
You should bring your stuff to the EP camp, you might end up making some cash to offset the camp cost Maybe even 2fast4u is willing to pay if you ask her nicely… or the right question
Me pay to clean my bike …hahaha! My bike likes to be dirty … it makes her feel more hardcore … but then again now that i know the service is free she might just get a cleaning when the bf gets home By the way you sure are racking up the points with me lately - you are a wise advisor to rappstar sir smartass!
yes you are my little mechanic … thats good for me! I would clean your bike to repay you but i think you would probabaly cry if i got that close to your baby but feel free to ask for my mechanical/cleaning services… i might surprise you with my skils
I expected close to what rappstar posted. That is a flippiin awesome cleaning job. What I got was essentially nothing. All the gatorade and gunk and dirt were still on the frame, derailler, and crankset. There was actually smeared/smudged grease all over the rear derailler. The bike was better when it went in than it was coming out.
I just wanted to make sure that my idea of Clean the bike, was close to what others think it is. Maybe in that shop they think clean the bike means to clean the chain (which I had them replace actually).
you cant expect the level of service that Rappstar provides … he is pretty passionate about taking care of his bike and he often goes above and beyond! I probably should have warned you so you wouldnt have got your hopes up …sorry
you know the expression, “if you want something done right, do it yourself”. spend your money on some cleaning supplies, and a few tools. save your trips to the bike shop for things that require expensive tools or things you don’t do very often. if you do what you listed once a week or every couple of hundred miles, it only takes maybe 30 minutes at most. you also don’t wait until things are really bad since you catch most stuff before it will break and leave you on the side of the road.
Good advice and something I will be doing from now on. I should know how to do this stuff anyway. But I was really urked by this. I hate feeling like I have gotten ripped off.
M~
Park AK-32 is a great way to go. 95% of the tools you’ll ever need. Look on eBay.
Zinn & The Art of Road Bike Maintenance
(Optional) Stand – I have the Ultimate Stand with Truing Attachment. It is GREAT!!!
Really, though, a set of allen keys, a sponge, and a bucket will get you like 80% of what you need. The Zinn book is really indespensible.
Maybe even 2fast4u is willing to pay if you ask her nicely… or the right question 
