Chain maintenance?

[Fab Foodie]

too much effort to take it all apart etc etc...us lot on here seem lazier!!

Maybe we're slightly less obsessed... or we've seen the light...

 

[Dave5N]

oil

 

[Fab Foodie]

oil

In a word.

 

[jimboalee]

Teflon !

 

[MichaelM]

For those who find that life is too short to remove a chain, what do you do about your cassettes ?

Fettling is fun !

Remove chain, wash in muc off/ shitshifter or similar. Remove casette while your at it. Clean teeth of cassette with toothbrush - I love my bike so much that I use the same toothbrush as I do for my own teeth

Rinse it all off, dry & relube. Then refit.

It doesn't take that long.

 

[trustysteed]

For those who find that life is too short to remove a chain, what do you do about your cassettes ?

Fettling is fun !

Remove chain, wash in muc off/ shitshifter or similar. Remove casette while your at it. Clean teeth of cassette with toothbrush - I love my bike so much that I use the same toothbrush as I do for my own teeth

Rinse it all off, dry & relube. Then refit.

It doesn't take that long.

okaaay, backing away from the scary bike nerd....

 

[SimonC]

For those who find that life is too short to remove a chain, what do you do about your cassettes ?

Fettling is fun !

Remove chain, wash in muc off/ shitshifter or similar. Remove casette while your at it. Clean teeth of cassette with toothbrush - I love my bike so much that I use the same toothbrush as I do for my own teeth

Rinse it all off, dry & relube. Then refit.

It doesn't take that long.

What do I do about my cassettes?

**** all!

 

[numbnuts]

Right, place your bets. How many pages in before we have the full set. Engine oil, furniture polish, WD40, E45, I clean every day, I never clean ?

well I'm not going to mention WD40 , but it does say on the tin it is a ..............

 

[Dave5N]

Teflon !

Bonding?

You need some fatty acids, Jim!

 

[jimboalee]

Bonding?

You need some fatty acids, Jim!

Teflon is DuPont's Brand name for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)

You will find the letters P, T, F and E on the side of a can of GT85.

 

[just jim]

Just give the whole thing a nice wee brush down

 

[tyred]

Butter!

 

[Dave5N]

Teflon is DuPont's Brand name for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)

You will find the letters P, T, F and E on the side of a can of GT85.

Again, Jim, bonding?

 

[Matthames]

There is another way of dealing with chain maintenance and that is using a scottoiler.

http://www.scottoiler.com/active.asp

and this guy has a nice article about them:
http://www.patrickjames.co.uk/bic_scot.php

I know from experience of using one on a motorbike that they are great things to have, but I don't have any personal experience of using the bicycle ones although I would consider fitting one.

 

[ttcycle]

For those who find that life is too short to remove a chain, what do you do about your cassettes ?

Fettling is fun !

Remove chain, wash in muc off/ shitshifter or similar. Remove casette while your at it. Clean teeth of cassette with toothbrush - I love my bike so much that I use the same toothbrush as I do for my own teeth

Rinse it all off, dry & relube. Then refit.

It doesn't take that long.

technically you don't need to remove the chain to clean the cassettes - you can do it with a toothbrush and or rag. I personally don't advocate removing the chain and it's links too often as it means that you weaken the chain - there are more effective ways to maintain it and if you do it frequently enough it shouldn't require much of a massive overhaul which needs a chain removed.

Yes I agree with you- keeping a bike clean and well running is important as it keeps the mechs and components working smoothly and for longer but I'd use my time effectively as there are other things that I'd rather be doing ie getting out on a ride is one of them..