Save yourself a lot of trouble with your road bike and use Pro Gold every other ride or every ride if the weather is really nasty.

• Put on some examination gloves you can buy at costco
• Wipe the chain with clean cloth.
• Clean clogs with rag and cog brush.
• Apply Pro Gold until the chain is clearly oily.
• Work each link back and forth with your fingers to get new oil worked in.
• Let the bike set overnight.
• Before riding wipe chain with a clean cloth/paper towels to get the excess oil and additional displaced gunk off
• Ride bike.
• Takes all of 10 minutes to do.