View Poll Results: Do you clean your chain?
No - I ride a bent and it would take two days
1
7.69%
I'm a vegin - whats a chain?
0
0%
No - I'm spending all my time breaking in my Brooks
0
0%
Yes - my doc found the missing link during the last colonoscopy
3
23.08%
I clean mine but my co-pilot doesn't clean her's
0
0%
Took the chain off my CF bike - makes it lighter
2
15.38%
In the desert when you live in Behran and there ain't no one to repair a stretched chain
1
7.69%
No - I have my people do it
6
46.15%
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Do you clean you chain?
04-27-08, 02:35 PM
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Do you clean you chain?
I thought about this as I was riding today - in response to DF trying to get folks to answer simple question. I hope everyone is equally offended
04-27-08, 02:40 PM
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MTB's get cleaned after every ride. The road bikes get cleaned about every 100 miles or so. Then washed out with wd40 to really get clean and then dried overnight at least- Then it is lube before I forget to do it before a ride.
Today on a ride- I heard a chain sqeaking from about 100 yards from behind it. I would say that chain had not been cleaned or lubricated from new- And it was an old bike. It did look good though with that "Orange" patina all over it.
Today on a ride- I heard a chain sqeaking from about 100 yards from behind it. I would say that chain had not been cleaned or lubricated from new- And it was an old bike. It did look good though with that "Orange" patina all over it.
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04-27-08, 02:47 PM
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I probably under-maintain my chains, but I use a paraffin-based compound (White Lightning or Race Day) which is supposed to clean as well as lubricate. I do inspect them frequently for tight rollers, sunken rivets, and elongation, and I replace them per Sheldon's 1/2 percent rule. I seldom remove a chain unless I am replacing it.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
04-27-08, 03:02 PM
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Yes I clean my chain whenever needed. I ride mostly street so sometimes once a month or once a day in the rainy season. Park Tools have a good tool for this, here's the link.
https://www.parktool.com/products/det...=5&item=CM%2D5
https://www.parktool.com/products/det...=5&item=CM%2D5
04-27-08, 03:58 PM
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MTB every ride. Road about every 300 miles.
04-27-08, 04:24 PM
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04-27-08, 04:32 PM
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I use a chain guard
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