Originally Posted by
CrippledKonaBoy
Your GUESS about the cause for it carries no more weight than if 'god' did it. If you don't have an explanation, you don't have an explanation.
Some types of grease, when they don't have enough movement, will gum up, sludge up, and actually WILL do the opposite of what they're supposed to do. I hypothesized about garbage grease -- now I'm guessing the wrong type. (I've been using Slick 50 One grease for cables AND bearings since 2001, with ZERO problems.)
I don't give a hoot what you've been using. I did state that I'm learning. Did you not understand that?
One final note: having built/repaired 31,000 bikes over a touch less than 16 years, I really don't need a lecture from an amateur.
But you do your bikes how you see fit. I'm out...C ya, wouldn't wanna B ya.
And I don't need a lecture from a rude egotist. But perhaps you were having a bad experience at the time you responded. If you were, I sympathize with you, and it might be a good thing to wait until you are feeling better before you respond to any future posts.
Incidentally, building/repairing 31,000 bikes over "a touch less than sixteen years," means you have "built/repaired" more than 5.3 bikes a day, every day of the year for nearly sixteen years, on average. Forgive me for doubting you.