Originally Posted by wonkemtel
I am considering commuting to work once or more a week soon, brought in work clothes and shoes today, but it's 23 miles each way bike path wet sand gravel etc...we will see. I am mechanically impared but am considering a chain cleaning device. Performace has a whole kit pretty chepa or is park that much better?
How do you use it? unsnap it and snap it back around the chain?
how to reaply lube on cleaned chain? is it horrible to use a clean tshirt dab with lube and hold against chain lightly but firmly as I turn the crank.
Yeah those things open up and clamp around the chain... my experience though is that they are pretty messy and do not do all that good a job.
Best thing to do is install a master link so you can easily get your chain off and then follow Sheldon's method:
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/chains.html