How do you clean aero bar pads?

i use the ol leave the bike on the car rack in the rain technique...lol


and just lube up the mechanicals afterwards. horrible i know, but no sticky pads

I would think about tossing them into the wash next time you are washing workout clothes.  Or checking the manufacturer's website.

I've soaked mine in some water with some Woolite mixed in. Rinse them and hang them up to dry.

I've never cleaned mine.

That's nasty!

Toss in the wash, not in the dryer though.

agreed, people wash these?

why? its going to get nasty the next time you ride, and you are gonna shower after, you do shower after?

Do you wash your workout clothes?  I'm not on the bars so much that they get rank, but if I was, I would not appreciate spending a good part of my ride with my face that close to the stinky pads. If I can smell it in the cool of the house, the heat of ride is just going to make it that much worse.

so maybe i am just weird, but i just walked over, smelled my pads, nada, they have about 2 years worth of riding and they dont small at all.

do your pads really smell?

Thanks for all the replies.  They don't really smell, it's that they're sticky and feel gross.  I hosed them off, sprayed on some simple green and let it soak in, then hosed again and blotted dry with a towel.  Much better.

And maybe I haven't tried hard enough, but when I pull up on the pads, there is adhesive that comes up, not velcro, so to take them off I'd have to get more of the adhesive tape and I'm not sure I want to mess with that.