From: jbrandt@hpl.hp.com (Jobst Brandt)
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
Subject: Re: Bike Grease on Favorite Jersey
Date: 12 May 1998 20:53:29 GMT

Gary Cohen writes:

> Anyone out there have any suggestions for getting black bike grease
> off of my favorite biking jersey?  I sure want to look "smart" when
> I'm out there on the road.

It's not the grease that's the problem, but the microscopic metal
barbs that give the grease its dark color.  Grease comes out easily
with most washing or cleaning.  Its the metal filings that hang on
forever.

Jobst Brandt      <jbrandt@hpl.hp.com>