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RE: Bar risers - GoldOxide_imp - 08-11-2022
(08-11-2022, 09:55 PM)Mixagon_imp Wrote:(08-11-2022, 09:27 PM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: Handlebar risers are indeed specific to the rider's comfort. Myself I find enhanced comfort. As for the spokes: Don't clean 'em if you dislike doing it. Alternatively, do it less times per annum - like once? Kerosene and a rag will make the work go by quickly.
I wouldn't mind cleaning stainless steel spokes but mine was before they changed to stainless so I had steel spokes with a zinc coating which had started to peel off and go rusty so impossible to keep looking good.
There's a thread about it called scabby spokes somewhere but no real solutions so I exchanged for the RS with cast wheels.
Ah, ya. That indeed would be an extra drag.
Maybe consider trying to "ignore" them in the meantime? On the rear wheel let the obnoxious chain oil fling slowly coat them and slowly turn the spokes black from the addition of the collective road dirt. Until you get new spokes or wheels, the visual might appear "black" and uniform in nature?
The front wheel? Hmm, might need to hand coat those with gear oil and let riding "blacken" them?