Originally Posted by
elcruxio
Where have you gotten that strange notion?
+95% of the riding that goes on in my household is all weather commuting or utility riding year round. I maintain all the bikes we have, and since I like to make life easy for myself, all of them have waxed chains. Having tried pretty much all the other alternatives from cheap to expensive to diy, hot wax won out with reduced maintenance time, ease of use and increased longevity of components. Cleanliness is a also really nice with small children.
I knew I should have taken a picture from my last commute! I had my rear mech caked in a pound of slush and the cassette was nearly completely covered by it when I got home. It was a miracle I could change gears in the first place. For these kinds of conditions wax works best especially when the slush has salt in it.
Waxed our chains on our last tour too. It worked fine. Could be better but that's solved (aha..!) by either a solvent based wax or heating the chain. For non-flight tours the solvent wax will probably be the best option.
Surely going culinary with your chain in the kitchen is more time consuming that squirting oil in five seconds.
Remove from bike, wait for wax to melt, play chef, pull out, cool, work the links loose, reinstall. In the amount of time it took you to do that once you could have squirted oil hundreds of times. And don't forget the cleaning you have to do to a new chain before you can even wax it for the first time.
If you are OCD and wash your oiled drivetrain compulsively every week, I could see how waxing can alleviate the OCD and save time on washing. Other than that oiling is way less time consuming.