Who's got the dirtiest E-bike?
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Ypedal
100 TW
i like my women dirty, and my bikes clean.
grindz145
1 MW
Dude, mine has been sitting caked in mud in the backroom for the last 2 months, since I've been waiting for the snow to stop. Ugh, I have had to sweep several times as the mud is flaking off. Can't wait to wash the thing. Come on spring!!
parajared
10 kW
The snow is starting to melt and everything is thick soupy muck. I found out last week that the front two wheels on tadpole trikes fling mud absolutely everywhere, mostly straight up in the air. Cruising down the road was like riding in a torrential rain storm of mud. :x
Ypedal
100 TW
and the back wheel shoots muck right to the back of your head and down your back lol..
danielrlee
10 kW
Used for social, domestic, leisure and commuting, almost daily for the last 3 months without a proper clean (unless scooping chunks of mud from the frame with my bare hands counts). The mud is still fresh from my commute home a few hours ago.
I feel bad for the trusty ghEttoBIKE now I think about it. Once the weather changes maybe.......
I feel bad for the trusty ghEttoBIKE now I think about it. Once the weather changes maybe.......
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Given the "style", it's probably hard to see the dirt, but the only thing I ever clean off is the CA screen, mirrors and lights. 
And the seat if it gets muddy from a dust storm before a rain, if it's outside without me on it when that happens. The last bath it got was a rainstorm on the way home from work at least a couple months ago, I'd guess.
http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12500&start=950
And the seat if it gets muddy from a dust storm before a rain, if it's outside without me on it when that happens. The last bath it got was a rainstorm on the way home from work at least a couple months ago, I'd guess. http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12500&start=950
John in CR
100 TW
My cargo bike has never been washed after this picture was take a few years ago, and this is the cleanest picture of that photo shoot. To give you an idea of how dirty this skank is, the one question she asked about electric bikes was "Are those electric bikes quiet enough to ride up to shoot someone without them hearing you coming?" It don't get dirtier than that. Where's my trophy?
danjpendleton
100 W
He wins ^
Ypedal
100 TW
agreed.
I use my bike for geocaching. That means that sometimes, I'm going diagonally across a muddy field. And that's English mud, not your wimpy foreign stuff. Mud that attaches itself affectionately to your wheels, rides up into the rest of the bike and slathers itself over everything. It also builds up on your boots, so on every step you're lifting several pounds of mud, and walking a few inches higher than you expected.
Geocachers (are there any here?) will probably recognise this situation.
If the mud is the soft, clingy kind, then is builds up on the wheels, after some yards it jams into the caliper brakes, and eventually gets so thick that I can't even push the bike, let alone ride it. I have to stop every 10 or so yards, dig out the mud, then I can do another 10 yards. The alternatives are A) carry the bike (and that's maybe 80 pounds), or lift the front wheel and drag the back along (it won't rotate because of the mud).
Eventually, I arrive, exhausted, at the other side of the field, and hopefully I'm not faced with another field just like it. Then I can spend several minutes removing twenty pounds of mud before I can continue using it as a bicycle, and not just a very heavy thing to carry.
When I get home after a route like this, I take the power-washer to it, and hose off all the mud. I'll try to remember to take a picture of it next time.
Geocachers (are there any here?) will probably recognise this situation.
If the mud is the soft, clingy kind, then is builds up on the wheels, after some yards it jams into the caliper brakes, and eventually gets so thick that I can't even push the bike, let alone ride it. I have to stop every 10 or so yards, dig out the mud, then I can do another 10 yards. The alternatives are A) carry the bike (and that's maybe 80 pounds), or lift the front wheel and drag the back along (it won't rotate because of the mud).
Eventually, I arrive, exhausted, at the other side of the field, and hopefully I'm not faced with another field just like it. Then I can spend several minutes removing twenty pounds of mud before I can continue using it as a bicycle, and not just a very heavy thing to carry.
When I get home after a route like this, I take the power-washer to it, and hose off all the mud. I'll try to remember to take a picture of it next time.
torker
100 kW
Haha our mud in Ks. is not wimpy. Depending where you are we have clay soil - sounds like what you are describing.. I have dealt it mostly pheasant hunting. It can get several inches thick on the bottom of boots. If you wait to clean it you better get the hammer out :x We affectionately call it :wink: gumbo..
dogman dan
1 PW
John still wins the nastiest bike.
We do have the clay here in the US. In my location, it's just never wet. It's not thin stuff, they built a house out of it in Taos, about 700 years ago, and it's still there with people living in it.
But when it does get wet, you better believe I go get as much as possible on my dirt bike. Only thing better than power slides in mud is power slides in snow.
Never took a pic of it though, usually it's so thick by the time I get home, I give the bike a hosing down before I park. About ten minutes after the rain, the sun's back. Then the mud is on your bike till you get out a chisel.
Dirtiest my bike ever got, I didn't notice a huge puddle of oil on the road in time when commuting. Rode right through it, and even with fenders it was a real mess.
We do have the clay here in the US. In my location, it's just never wet. It's not thin stuff, they built a house out of it in Taos, about 700 years ago, and it's still there with people living in it.
But when it does get wet, you better believe I go get as much as possible on my dirt bike. Only thing better than power slides in mud is power slides in snow.
Never took a pic of it though, usually it's so thick by the time I get home, I give the bike a hosing down before I park. About ten minutes after the rain, the sun's back. Then the mud is on your bike till you get out a chisel.
Dirtiest my bike ever got, I didn't notice a huge puddle of oil on the road in time when commuting. Rode right through it, and even with fenders it was a real mess.
