How are you lot washing your bikes without contaminating your pads and rotors?

[darwink1]

I've had tons of bikes in the past with all sorts of different brands of pads and rotors and as I'm always paranoid of pad and rotor contamination I'm super careful to not get anything other than plain water anywhere near them. Even so I've had my fair share of contamination issues in the past which more often than not has led to having to replace the pads and rotors as cleaning and sanding etc has never really worked for me.

I've just bought some new Magura rotors and Galfer pads so would like to know if there are actually any MTB cleaning products out there for cleaning the bike that are genuinely safe around brakes? I have Muc-Off rotor covers already which I put on when washing but they don't completely seal off the rotors so water and whatever else inevitably gets in, and I always wash by hand and a low pressure hose. I see people on YouTube spraying their whole bikes all over including brakes with cleaners from Muc-Off, Hope and Peatys etc but I'm still sceptical that these cleaners don't have any ingredients in that will contaminate the brakes.

Currently during the Summer I put the bike on stand, remove the wheels and pads so I can wash the bike without worrying, then I carefully wash the wheels by hand, let it all dry then put the wheels and pads back on. It's a faff and doesn't really work too well in the winter when the wheels are caked in mud to a point where a low pressure hose just isn't enough so a cleaning product and is required.

With water from a hose and a cloth. I havent thought about contamination at all since I ride in the rain and its basically the same thing.

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