Shampoo for chain cleaning ... try it

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10-09-06 | 06:00 PM

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I-Like-To-Bike

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Originally Posted by zoridog

I've never been able to find the $4 chains from Nashbar you guys are talking about. I spend about $10 for a chain. Mile for mile, it's still a bargain.

Try your local big box store. You are right, even at $10, chains are a bargain and hardly worth devoting hours of messy scrubbing, problems with solvent disposal, etc. etc. Especially when such behavior may not provide anything useful.

10-10-06 | 05:20 AM

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riedelmeister

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Originally Posted by CommuterRun

Liquid dish detergent works real well, too.

+1

Dish detergent is a helluva degreaser.

10-10-06 | 05:25 AM

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+1

Dish detergent is a helluva degreaser.

AND it's lemony fresh too!

10-10-06 | 05:49 AM

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ItsJustMe

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Originally Posted by zoridog

I've never been able to find the $4 chains from Nashbar you guys are talking about. I spend about $10 for a chain. Mile for mile, it's still a bargain.

Right now the deal is buying a recumbent chain for $9 and splitting it in two. They are twice as long as a normal chain. You only get one master link. I go to the hardware store in town and buy master links for 99 cents. At the bike store they're $5, and I actually like the ones from the hardware store better, they snap together more firmly. I've had bike store ones fly apart on the road.
Here's the link.

The $4 (actually I think it might have been $5) for the KMC 7/8 speed chain is a sale price. They're $11 now. Grab a handful next time they're on sale.

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