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Totally agree with that.
...but would add...a selection of paint brushes, some with the bristles cut down to stiffen them up a bit, and all with a piece of cycle inner tube covering the metal ferrule.
...and a cheap hand pump with neat cleaning product of your choice, for those grubbier areas.
Hand cleaning is also a much more intimate contact with the bike...helps with general familiarity and with spotting developing problems.
When I was 18, I discovered that 3.30pm was a good time for bike cleaning...cos after a while the girl next door would come walking along from the school bus-stop, and I could engage her in conversation for a few brief moments until her overly strict father called her inside.
She ended up being the mother of my four children.
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