Originally Posted by
HendersonD
So you really only reapply White Lighting every few hundred miles on a longer tour?
Yes. I did a 1500 mile tour around Lake Erie a few years ago and decided to keep track…likely because of some thread like this one. I installed a new chain at the beginning of the tour and added lubricant after a long day in the rain in Ontario. That was at 200 miles. The next time lubed the chain was in Bensalem, PA at 950 miles after I washed my very dirty bike (about 500 miles of gravel roads and tow paths). I didn’t lube the chain again until I got home after another 450 miles. I replaced the chain later after 3000 miles of riding.
This is not unusual. I tracked other chains and can get about 700 miles between applications.