Originally Posted by
calculus
going on my fourth rust-belt winter with a kmc cool chain that is still yet rust significantly, i have had to steel wool some oxidation off the pins and whatnot from time to time.
They plow the streets in Cleveland (or wherever you live - not too many folks actually live in Cleavland proper) which they don't do in Riga, so I ride through salty slop all day. When I lived in Toledo it wasn't such a problem.