My Country

He runs a small business cleaning cars - Jet Valeting - off the Crescent in Hockley, Birmingham B18 5LY, by a route I use between my home in Handsworth and the city centre or Edgbaston campus of Birmingham university. Used to seeing me pass, the other day he offered to clean caked mud off my cherished folding bicycle while I and my dog Oscar, who, if not running beside me along a canal towpath, sits in the blue front pannier of the Brompton.

 

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People who know bicycles will say power spraying vital parts with water is a bad idea. Well yes, but after the wash I gave my hubs, chain, pedals, and brakes a blast with damp dispersing oil.

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Uploaded on November 20, 2011