Three IMPORTANT Maintenance Items to Remember – Training Season Is Not Over

Three Things to Remember – Training Season Is Not Over

This year’s training season isn’t over yet – and maybe it’s just gotten a bit longer!

Three IMPORTANT maintenance things to remember before you hurt your bike. They’re simple and we do them during the outdoor riding season. But, they are so easy to forget riding inside…

How To Minimize Road Bike Sweat Damage

Real-life read bike sweat damage and the only two things we can do about it.

Sweat has corroded and destroyed various parts of my bike. Most recently the head tube bearings.

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Bike Blood

Sweat corroded head tube bearings.

Sweat corroded head tube bearings.

Sweat corroded head tube bearings.
Sweat corroded head tube bearings.
Sweat corroded head tube bearings.
Sweat corroded head tube bearings.

The only two things we can do about it is keep the sweat off the bike and clean it up after.

Thankfully, it’s not that hard…

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Ponya

This was a hard video to make. Rain, bugs, and the learning curve claimed my first two attempts and forced me indoors for a third. I learned about the changing sound frequencies of jungle cicadas, that it’s hard to make a video in the rain at the top of a mountain when you get their by bike, and that you should always switch to airplane mode when you shoot with an iPhone.

Real Sweat and Ponya Sweatbands

Up at the Finish Line at the top of Samoeng mountain talking about sweat and the Ponya Sweatbands.  These sweatbands are a simple product that really works.

They are made from super-absorbent bamboo fibers from Nepal and that means a lot as we used to live on the India / Nepal border.

Sorry if the sweat on the first take is a bit gross but everything on my channel is real!

Visit the Ponya website.

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