Originally Posted by
cyccommute
No, no “gotcha”. Generally speaking, camp stoves aren’t meant to be waved around like a torch. I was envisioning you leaving the chain on the bike and passing the stove under the chain. Get the stove too close to a tire or set the solvent on fire and there’s going to be problems.
If you're being intentionally obtuse and imagining silly scenarios, that's on you.
And how much time to you have in camp at night? Taking a chain off to heat it over a flame? I got more things to do at night then taking bits off my bike. And I can just imagine getting down on the ground to look for the inevitable dropped quick link.
Enough to take a chain off, run it through a multifuel burner flame as it's evacuating the fuel line and putting it back. With some experience, taking a chain off and reattaching it is a super quick process.
Oh, I thought you said that there is no way a water based lube could be re-emulsified.
Not if it's solidified and dried. It's absurd to think that a chain could match a 30k rpm shear mixer.
Much of the reason why I don’t use water based wax lubricants is because of the effect rain has on it. Anyone who has used wax lubricants in rain are well aware that the lubricants on the chain needs to be refreshed after riding in rain. I have done long (long, long) dissertations on why. Oil needs to be refreshed as well but for different reasons.
Only if you use bad wax lubricants. The good ones don't require reapplication after rain. You can usually get a week of rain riding from a rex waxed chain.
Say what?! You can’t get Silca Secret wax? You can’t get Rock ‘n’ Roll? You can’t get Green Oil? There are a bunch of others that aren’t just available in the US.
Silca is water emulsion. Never heard of Rock n Roll wax, so I'm assuming it's not available here.
Green oil is from the UK. Not the EU. Have you heard of brexit and what it did to trade between the uk and EU. Also, never seen it and can't find it from EU stores.
Please. Give me some credit. I don’t just tour in fair weather. I don’t use water based wax lubricants because I don’t just tour in fair weather.
But then you know that but are just being a Richard.
So I'm just doing the math here. You say that wax lube needs reapplying after a wet ride. Yet your current one is going 2000 miles with four reapplications. So either you don't follow your own protocol OR you really don't ride in the rain. If it's the former, your words don't mean much. If it's the latter, I do believe your claims of your wet riding experience may be a bit inflated. Winter months tend to be the wet ones.