How to clean spokes ?

[guzziworksman]

Get a water heater drip pan...or a small wading pool (probably better). Remove your axle/bearings; wash your wheel down to remove dirt/grease. Pour in Evapo-rust (about two gallons; yeah, it's pricey, but you get to reuse it). Come back some hours later. Wash spokes down with a small brass brush or 0000 steel wool. It works. Even better - get new spokes. Cheaper than what I described., Prettier result. And lacing is easy once you get the simplistic hang of it.There's only one worthwhile youtube explanation of relacing that's any good. "Without all the bull###t. How to relace a 36 hole wheel.") Or a title that's close to that. A tabletop demo by a British-accented lady. Follow her simple instruction EXACTLY - the ONLY hard part, is getting your 10th spoke in the correct flange hole.

 

[vincev]

I am not really obsessed with polished spokes.I have a brass bush like a toothbrush and clean them up so they look good

 

[the tinker]

I am not really obsessed with polished spokes. I have a big bush and clean them up so they look good

Okay. . . . . .

 

[vincev]

Okay. . . . . .

I actually hate cleaning wheels more than spokes.

 

[ricobike]

Okay. . . . . .

We no need no steenking clean spokes :-D

 

[Ernbar]

0000 steel wool and some oil, wipe clean after

I do the same but use blo to keep rust from returning. The blo does a great job,

 

[eeapo]

0000 steel wool and some oil, wipe clean after

That’s the way I clean them, time consuming but really the best way I’ve found.