Frontiers of dirt, velo-style
I cleaned the Three Capes grime off the mlcm today, and, my, it’s amazing just how much dust was scraped out of the bicycle. Probably three cups, maybe more, and this includes some newly caked on greasy dirt that had to be chipped off the so-filthy-it-didn’t-even-look-like-metal-anymore cassette.
And the bicycle is still not completely clean; I’ll have to break down and actually wash it off to get the last layer or three of grime off the little nooks and crannies.
Oy. I guess I’m lucky that the mechanism actually bothered to keep working after it absorbed 50 miles worth of highway 6’s road grime.
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I don’t know about that; it would probably just be depressing!
But you could do charts and graphs! As you transfer food mass from the bags to you, and lose water mass to sweat, you’re also gaining grunge mass on the bike.
You could come up with a whole mythology of constant total rolling mass that way, and sell books and self-cleaning bicycle coatings.
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Could always weigh the MLCM before and after cleaning?