- All right, so, the rain has started to fall
here at the Trek CXC Cup and I've got Mike Berry,
one of the mechanics at the
cannondale-cyclocrossworld.com team
and we're going to go back over to your trailer
and we're going to learn how to clean one of these bikes.
- Absolutely.
- All right.
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Today, we're at the Trek CX Cup in Waterloo, Wisconsin
for the second round of the Cyclocross World Cup.
The skies opened up and the rain started coming down
and the riders and mechanics were in
for a muddy day of it.
Michael Berry from cannondale-cyclocrossworld.com
racing team was kind enough to take us through
how they get the bike back up and running
after a nasty day of racing.
Okay Mike, so, we've got the bike back here.
It is, it's pretty muddy.
They had to switch because of the tires I think, right?
- Yep! Yeah, these mixes were not quite enough grip
for once it started raining so, we pitted for a
little more aggressive tire.
- Yeah, yeah, mud tire.
So, the bike's dirty, you're bringing it back here
to the Cannondale booth, where you're going to clean it all off
and, it's a little bit different than a race scenario
like, what would you do in a race scenario,
a bike rider comes into the pit.
- In a race scenario, it's primarily working on
cleaning the mud off, really not worrying too much
about degreasing chains, just really getting
the heavy stuff off, heavy stuff off the tires,
off the break levers, off the saddle.
- Yep.
- Reducing the weight from the mud.
- Yeah, cause sometimes you're going to turn a bike
back to a rider in (snaps)
- In half a lap.
- Yeah, four minutes.
- Four minutes.
- Yeah, exactly, okay.
All right, well then, we're going to watch you
rip this thing down and get it cleaned up.
- Cool.
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- Mike, so, tell us what's going on here.
You've got a special, you've got different brushes
for different things.
- Yep.
So, it's a quite smaller nylon brush for the chain cassette.
- Yep.
- Really helps knock the heavy stuff off.
- Okay.
- And then there's bigger softer brush
for wheels, tires and frame.
- Right, and is with horse hair?
- This is horse hair, yeah.
- Yeah, so that doesn't pick up any of the grease, right?
- Yep!
Yeah, you can get it dirty and it, it just washes clean.
- Yeah, right, I love that.
Okay, and the uh, and this obviously has
a lot of grass on it
this is the course that's like, going to get beaten up
and chewed up but, grass it always a little brutal
'cause it gets in everything.
- It gets in everything.
It gets in the pulley wheels.
Definitely have to make sure you clean out
the pulley wheels, the pressure washer will
take care of a lot of that.
- You can't leave these dirty in your garage.
You need to be really quick about getting the mud off these.
- Yep.
Get the mud off, you want to make sure,
obviously, that it uh, it doesn't,
no water water gets down inside, in where the glue is.
Especially when it's dry and dusty,
you want to get that stuff off as well.
- Yeah.
- It'll do just as much damage as the water will.
- Yeah, all right.
All right, we're going to watch you blast this down.
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So, we got all this stuff off of it,
power washed it, gotten all the big stuff off.
You can still see there's still a little bit of debris
from this grass.
- We'll clean out the rest of the grass
back on the stand, when we lube it up.
- Okay - Dry it down.
- So, we're going to bring it in now?
- Yep!
- 'Kay, to the dry.
- To the dry.
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- Okay, so, we're back in.
This is like getting your hair done a little bit.
We're at the salon, we've been outside,
we got a nice, it was dirty! - We got a shampoo
Yep, we got a shampoo and now we're back here
for the finishing touches.
- That's right.
Okay, so, now, you bring it in, you're going to dry It all off
tell us about what's going to happen now.
- So, from here, it's going to get a little more detail
pull the wheels off, dry things up more so than
what we were dealing with outside.
We'll lube the chain, make sure everything's good,
inspect the tires, inspect the handlebar tape,
make sure, this bike did go down so,
we'll make sure everything's good.
- Got it.
And, the reason that you take the wheels off,
obviously, this bike this bike didn't have,
it probably only had eight minutes of racing
before it got back to you, presumably?
- Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
But, it is something, you pull the wheels off
just so we can clean 'em better,
we can make sure we get all the debris out.
- For the people that are home,
it's also a good time probably to like, check bearing,
I mean, just to...
- Yep, absolutely.
This the time to,
your bike just got raced, you want to make sure that it's
back to race tomorrow.
- Yeah, right.
Okay.
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For the super grassy ones, you're just pullin' those out.
- Just pull the pulley's out.
Make sure you get all the grass out from inside.
It'll definitely start to get into the bearings
and slow you down.
- Yeah, the longevity here, it's going to go a lot longer.
- Yep, absolutely.
- Yeah.
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You're just drying off these cod sidewalls,
you don't want them, presumably--
- Yeah, you don't want to keep 'em wet,
you want to, I don't know, get all the mud,
get all the debris off, definitely keep 'em dry.
- What happens if we keep them wet?
- They will start to rot.
They are a cotton casing so, they will rot.
- It's like a pillowcase.
- Like a pillowcase.
- A wet pillowcase.
- (laughing) Yes.
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- Each chain link?
- Each chain link.
You start at the quick link,
and you put one dab on each link,
work your way all the way through,
wipe the excess off and you're done.
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- All right, and that's it!
- That's it.
- It's done.
- So, thank you so much for taking it through,
the bike looks brand spankin' new.
- It's ready to race tomorrow.
- Great, all right.
Thank you so much, Mike.
- Thank you.
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