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Turn your weekly mileage and riding conditions into a dated bike service schedule: cleaning, lubing, and every part replacement interval.
A bicycle maintenance planner converts your weekly riding distance into the odometer reading at which each service job falls due. It takes the distance-based intervals bicycle service literature agrees on — re-lube every 250 km, brake pads around 2,000 km, chain around 3,000 km, cassette every third chain — and scales the contamination-driven ones by whether you ride dry roads, mixed weather or wet and gritty ground. The result is a dated list rather than a vague reminder to service the bike sometime.
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Wet and gravel riding cuts drivetrain intervals to about 45% of the dry-road figure.
Every job shows the exact reading it comes due at and how far away that is.
Tyre pressure and the annual service run on time; chains and pads run on distance.
About every 250 km in dry conditions, and closer to every 100 km if you ride in the wet or on gritty gravel. Distance matters less than exposure: one wet ride strips more lubricant than a week of dry commuting, so re-lube after any soaking regardless of the odometer.
A full workshop service once a year even for light use, plus distance-based jobs in between. Bearings, cables and brake fluid degrade with time as well as distance, which is why a bike ridden 500 km a year still needs annual attention.
Roughly three chains, which works out around 9,000 km on dry roads and closer to 4,000 km in wet or gritty conditions. Replacing the chain on time is what makes a cassette last that long — riding a worn chain wears the sprockets to match it in a few hundred kilometres.
Yes, and by a large margin. Water carries road grit into the chain rollers, bearings and brake pads, and it flushes lubricant out, which is why wet-weather intervals in this planner are set at about 45% of the dry-road distance. Rinsing and re-lubricating after wet rides recovers much of that gap.