Clearly this is why it didn't work. Trans fats are essential to bearing operation.

I personally am a fan of "I can't believe it's not butter" for my bearings.

Actually, vaseline (petroleum jelly) is what they used for lubricating the BB bearings in two of my bikes, both beaters from the early 80's. And the BBs work perfectly, without ever having been repacked.

It would seem that vaseline is a very durable bicycle bearing lubricant.

Nice double-bump...

Can you still get those? And what do you do with the film?

I used to have hundreds, but I couldn't find one anywhere around the house lately. The aluminum ones with a screw lid seal the best, but they are long gone AFAIK.

Oops - always check date before posting.

I read 2 pages and laughed my butt off at some of the replies before I realized I was reading a 7 year old post (started 2005). :)

as i posted in a similar thread:

We actually save all of our used cooking oil/meat fat from our cast iron pan (olive oil and sunflower oil usually) and use that to lubricate our chains. When I ride behind my gf and she mashes, I can still smell like goodness.

Two bad points about this plan:

1. I park the bike outside my office at the uni and we have rabbit infestation problem at night. Unfortunately, the rabbits like the smell as well, and I often get rabbit hair (hare hair ... lol) in my drivetrain.
2. Often, when we run into the store for groceries or such, dogs like the lick the drivetrain. However, their owners don't like that and often try to pull the dogs away, which usually results in them urinating on the drivetrain.

So, if you can deal dog urine and hare hair, it's not a bad to recycle your used kitchen fat.

This was posted the last time this was resurrected in 2009. Now 4 years later it's back.

to paraphrase MacArthur --- "old threads never die, they don't even fade away".

:roflmao2: :roflmao2: This maybe old thread but god! It is funny. :roflmao2:

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