Chain Lube Recommendation

[iamkickstand]

holy crap

Lube your chain, clean it when you feel like it, replace it when necessary, carry on with your life of replacing a $15-20 part that wears out one a year or every couple of years.

[dirt]

holy crap

Lube your chain, clean it when you feel like it, replace it when necessary, carry on with your life of replacing a $15-20 part that wears out one a year or every couple of years.

[b_b]

Finally cleaned my chain after about 500 miles. Threw it in the laundry tub with hot water and detergent and scrubbed it. Put it back on bike and applied light oil and wiped clean. It had factory lube so was a little nasty. I don't like that stuff either. I also cleaned all the sprockets. Should be good for another 500.

[bh357]

Soak in degreaser
Rinse chain with garden hose
Wipe cog and chainring
Put chain back on bike
Blow chain dry with compressor
Lube with Tri-Flow

[Sortaslow]

Soak in degreaser
Rinse chain with garden hose
Wipe cog and chainring
Put chain back on bike
Blow chain dry with compressor
Lube with Tri-Flow

Yeah, but garden hoses can leach out pvc into the water. Think of your poor chain choking on those chemicals as you douse it in that chemical laced water

[TooFast46]

Soak in degreaser
Rinse chain with garden hose
Wipe cog and chainring
Put chain back on bike
Blow chain dry with compressor
Lube with Tri-Flow

Yeah, but garden hoses can leach out pvc into the water. Think of your poor chain choking on those chemicals as you douse it in that chemical laced water

For cyring out loud, I drink from the garden hose. I'm not too worried about "chemical laced water" on a chain.

[c0nsumer]

Soak in degreaser
Rinse chain with garden hose
Wipe cog and chainring
Put chain back on bike
Blow chain dry with compressor
Lube with Tri-Flow

Yeah, but garden hoses can leach out pvc into the water. Think of your poor chain choking on those chemicals as you douse it in that chemical laced water

For cyring out loud, I drink from the garden hose. I'm not too worried about "chemical laced water" on a chain.

Those extra molecules stuck to the outside will make it decidedly less aero unless you're arranging them by hand to facilitate laminar flow.

[Leroi Brown]

Citrus-based degreaser, followed with a dabbing of Pro Link keeps my chains working beautifully for many, many miles!

[Sortaslow]

Soak in degreaser
Rinse chain with garden hose
Wipe cog and chainring
Put chain back on bike
Blow chain dry with compressor
Lube with Tri-Flow

Yeah, but garden hoses can leach out pvc into the water. Think of your poor chain choking on those chemicals as you douse it in that chemical laced water

For cyring out loud, I drink from the garden hose. I'm not too worried about "chemical laced water" on a chain.

This just might be your last year riding. I fed water to my guinea pig from the hose and she died really fast.

[utabintarbo]

Soak in degreaser
Rinse chain with garden hose
Wipe cog and chainring
Put chain back on bike
Blow chain dry with compressor
Lube with Tri-Flow

Yeah, but garden hoses can leach out pvc into the water. Think of your poor chain choking on those chemicals as you douse it in that chemical laced water

For cyring out loud, I drink from the garden hose. I'm not too worried about "chemical laced water" on a chain.

This just might be your last year riding. I fed water to my guinea pig from the hose and she died really fast.

Wasn't that the night you were drunk and fell asleep with the hose running in the guinea pigs aquarium/cage? Poor Fluffles.

[Mack]

I heard a good one while at the LBS dropping something off this morning. Store employee discussing with
costomer how much it would be to buy & install a new chain. Blah blah blah....Store Employee " I replace my
chain quite often because I hate to clean & lube it, When it gets to dirty I just put a new one on." I Lol'd
thinking about that statement and this thread.

[Sortaslow]

Soak in degreaser
Rinse chain with garden hose
Wipe cog and chainring
Put chain back on bike
Blow chain dry with compressor
Lube with Tri-Flow

Yeah, but garden hoses can leach out pvc into the water. Think of your poor chain choking on those chemicals as you douse it in that chemical laced water

For cyring out loud, I drink from the garden hose. I'm not too worried about "chemical laced water" on a chain.

This just might be your last year riding. I fed water to my guinea pig from the hose and she died really fast.

Wasn't that the night you were drunk and fell asleep with the hose running in the guinea pigs aquarium/cage? Poor Fluffles.

Actually it was squeaky and i forgot her in her aquarium cage outside. Well wouldn't you know it.... The midday sun cooked her. I felt like *beep*. I think i was 11 at the time.

[Alexg]

+2 for Squirt lube. Oh and send your significant other to the store to get it. My wife loved it. She said she felt like I would going to buy tampons.