Originally Posted by
ThermionicScott
No offense, it would be nice if there was more concrete evidence for the mileage rather than "they must last longer than oiled chains, look at how dirty they get!" The guy on EcoVelo is estimating as well, and lives in about the perfect environment to use waxed chains.
There's an experiment of one that
this guy did with running a dry chain, cleaning only with WD-40 when his chain was dirty. Search for wd-40, it's about 3/4 of the way down on the page. There's a
growing following of people that are experimenting with running a dry chain, cleaning with WD-40 only when necessary.
I'm currently performing the same experiment on my new trike and my commuter. I'm cleaning with WD-40 when the chain is visibly dirty.. if I ride in the rain and I remember, I clean out the water with WD-40 (which is probably better than I previously did leaving it wet).