details, details, details. what are you particular about on your bike?

[j44ke]

2 gallon garden sprayer. Best thing invented for apartment dwellers who ride in the winter/rain.

[brucew]

2 gallon garden sprayer. Best thing invented for apartment dwellers who ride in the winter/rain.

Disagree.

Bike hook over the tub and a shower massage. My commuter digs it.

[Matthew Strongin]

Disagree.

Bike hook over the tub and a shower massage. My commuter digs it.

Ha! My wife would kill me but she may just have to come home to that in her shower.

[CXinNH]

Got up early and cleaned my drivetrain today.
It now sparkles.
I can't wait to get it dirty.

Oh, and I de-wormed the brake arches while I had the Simple Green handy

Never let cleaning your bike get in the way of riding your bike, even if it is dirty.
2.5 hrs this morning, back at 8 am.

Back on topic:
- fit
- classic round bars
- low q of 145 or less
- short pedal spindels
- arione or regal
- stuff that works, does not break and is durable - even if it weighs more
- stuff that can be repaired, maintained and fixed with non-proprietary tools and parts

[DOOFUS]

round bars

regal

time pedals

after that, I don't care

(wouldn't call position a "particular" -- I'm assuming anyone with a working brain has their position dialed in to begin with)

[NFazzio]

-A rattle or click click click drives me nuts.
-I clean the chain before I clean the bike.
-regal
-logos matched to valve stem (yes clincher user here)
-flat transition bar to hoods
-always use gore sealed cables. Keep the orange rubber caps clean.

[AntLockyer]

I forgot to say, my dislike of spacers means that I have to get 1 1/8" king top caps to go on my 1" bikes so I can run no top spacer.

[Derek Raymond]

Bars + Saddles + Fit. Everything else is being a picky whiner.

[Tomi]

Bars + Saddles + Fit. Everything else is being a picky whiner.

^^^^ this.

I manage to clean my road bike 3 or 4 times a year. The crosser take a shower before and after every race though.

[NHWolverine]

I'm actually a lot more picky about your bike. I might say 'no thanks' to a spin if you're riding:

1) With a pie plate
2) With spoke reflectors
3) On a Felt with a Felt seat, Felt tape, Felt bars, Felt brakes, etc (also works as "on a Trek with Bontrager ..." and so forth)
4) With about 4'' of headset spacers

Maybe I'm just vain.

[PGSmith]

Maybe I'm just vain.

Vanity is usually focused on oneself. In this case, your an elitist or a snob.

[SteveP]

i just wanna say washing yr bike in the bathtub strikes me as gross.
all that crap going into the tub?

just saying.

[El Chaba]

i just wanna say washing yr bike in the bathtub strikes me as gross.
all that crap going into the tub?

just saying.

I'm waiting for somebody to step up and say that they clean their crankset, cassette and chain in the dishwasher....

[j44ke]

Disagree.

Bike hook over the tub and a shower massage. My commuter digs it.

Ok, so no over lubed chains and no bikes in bathrooms.

[Too Tall]

Wow, this is like an OCD convention. Ooooooooooooooo

All kidding aside, nuck nuck, I'm a real sticker when building bikes for the first time. Do it effin'g right or go home. Things like getting the cable housing square into stops, proper radius, assemble lube on buried frame fittings, chased threads etc. are real real important to me even though nobody sees it. The ONE thing that I'm very attentive to are, don't laugh, very vertical exits for all cable end....weird right? Oh well, we all have our "thing".

After my bikes have been ridden for a while and everything settles down I am not a clean freak. Chains must work very perfectly or I need psychiatry so they get wiped every ride. Other than that I'm easy. Bikes get washed when they need it, generally it is right before I go to a gathering of other asshats. I'm shallow that way ;)

Last, bartape is black. xxoo, TT

[thollandpe]

Vertical exits for cable ends?

Don't get it, please help me understand this strain of Oh See Dee.

[EricKeller]

Vertical exits for cable ends?

Don't get it, please help me understand this strain of Oh See Dee.

please, please don't explain because this will just be one more thing that I know I'm not doing on my bike. The saying involving the cobbler's children was coined knowing that I would eventually be born.

[JLNK]

Frame geo., lightly lubed chain, and cleanliness.

[El Chaba]

Everything is a detail...Mythos saddles...Time pedals...route the front brake cable to the right lever...wet chain lube (the term "dry lube" is an oxymoron)...I have a large stash of the Elite 66mm bottles...All fit parameters have to be spot on on all my bikes so that I don't know what I am riding without looking down...tubulars...always tubulars...glued on-no tape...Nalini shorts..gloves with very little padding (Teosport are the BEST)

[Jason Musgrave]

I couldn't care less whether my bike's got a campag, sram, or shimano grouppo. But it'd better have:

40cm round bars

177.5 cranks

shimano pedals

and the calipers setup loose