Old 08-04-08, 08:16 PM
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Get over your cleanliness. I ride 8 miles of gravel road a day, and it's completely impossible for me to keep anything clean, so I just don't bother. I clean, and by the time I'm 5 miles from home it's dirty again. In the winter by the time I get to work with a brand new chain it's covered with sticky clay/sand mix.

If it's starting to gum up any moving parts I power wash the bike,and I lube the chain, but in general I've just gotten used to the fact that chains only last 1800 miles, and the bike will always be dirty.
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