Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Well... and I'm just saying... the nastiest, stickiest, petroleum based, most environment unfriendly chainlubes you can buy recommend that you re-apply them after riding in rain...
That's not because the lubricant gets washed off but because the lubricant gets mixed with water and forms an emulsion. Some emulsions are easy to break...think salad dressing...and some aren't...think mayonnaise. If the emulsion breaks or if there is enough water sprayed on the chain, the water displaces the oil that is coating the parts you want to lubricant. There is little affinity between the metal surface and oils as the polarities are very different but there is a very good affinity between the water and the metal since their polarity is similar.
The oil is only washed away in the sense that it is removed but it doesn't dissolve in the water. It still rides on top of the water even after it is removed.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
True. Why bother do anything remotely good for the environment since your house and nearly everything in it is manufactured using something toxic. The sooner we get this planet over with, the better, because the suspense is killing me.
Oh, please. You are preaching...poorly...to the choir again. People on these forums are
more likely to be environmentally friendly than most other humans. We ride bicycles which aren't polluting and many of us ride bicycles because it isn't polluting. Why don't you go spread the word to the portion of the population that
doesn't ride bicycles?