How to wash your bike indoors

You've just done a 3 1/2 hour ride in the snow/sleet. The last thing you feel like doing is going back out in the elements to wash your bike, but you can't hang it up with all of the road crud on it. What to do? Wash it in your house. Here's how (a utility sink in the basement works best but you can use a bathtub):

1) Make yourself some hot tea and de-chamois.


2) Wait for your wife/significant other to leave the house.

3) Occupy your child(ren) with 2 episodes of Sponge Bob or an appropriately themed computer game so they can't rat you out.


4) Assemble cleaning supplies.


5) Start with the wheels (they fit pretty well in a medium-sized utility sink).


6) The bike is harder to mangage. You've got to wash it in sections and it makes a mess.




Rinse, dry and you are done with the bike. Thoroughly clean the surrounding walls, floor, sink, washer, dryer, etc. and you are done!