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Ride It Like You Stole It!
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Chain Rotation
- Thread starter PedallingNowhereSlowly
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Double checking this I’ve oiled my chain twice since beginning of July and 4,300km. Chain due to need oil soon, aligning with what I thought.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
How about a new bike every ride? Bolt Croppers have saved me a fortune.in chains.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
If I was waxing rather than using a regular type f chain lube, then I would.
If you have say 4 chains, then you wax them all to start. Then the next three times the chain reaches the point of needing rewaxing, you just swap for one of the axed ones. Then you can wax three at once, and repeat the process.
As I'm not using waxing, I don't rotate chains at all, I just swap out for a new one when the chain measurement tool says it is too worn, and scrap the old one.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Same as every time you use a vehicle as well ?Mr swap. How's the van ?
It's luvverly, thanks.
That did not answer my question. Why would you want to rotate chains?
mickle
innit
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- 53.933606, -1.076131
I replace my chain just before it dips into the red on my Park chain checker. In the past I've had cassettes outlast ten chains. I've never worn out a chain ring.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Can you tell me in what way "If you have say 4 chains, then you wax them all to start. Then the next three times the chain reaches the point of needing rewaxing, you just swap for one of the axed ones. Then you can wax three at once, and repeat the process." was somehow not answering the question?
It might not be an answer as to why YOU might want to, but that wasn't what you asked.
Why are you doing this? why not one chain and keep it lubed?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Because he's the CEO for the Wanky Spanky Chainy Corporation, Shanghai, and wants us all to buy lots of chains.
As has been covered elsewhere on the thread / forum elongated chains wear adjacent components (cassette, chainring) at a faster rate as the contact point of the roller migrates forward / upward on the teeth. So, for a given number of chains used to their wear limit you should get a longer service life from the other drivetrain components if rotating the chains so that they all wear at approximately the same rate rather than running each to its wear limit then replacing with a new item.
As has also already been covered, rotation keys in nicely to waxing since this requires chain removal; the benefits of which over oil have been covered many times both on here and elsewhere. You'll note that the OP's question re. rotating has been asked in the context of waxing...
Rumbled!
As has been covered elsewhere on the thread / forum elongated chains wear adjacent components (cassette, chainring) at a faster rate as the contact point of the roller migrates forward / upward on the teeth. So, for a given number of chains used to their wear limit you should get a longer service life from the other drivetrain components if rotating the chains so that they all wear at approximately the same rate rather than running each to its wear limit then replacing with a new item.
As has also already been covered, rotation keys in nicely to waxing since this requires chain removal; the benefits of which over oil have been covered many times both on here and elsewhere. You'll note that the OP's question re. rotating has been asked in the context of waxing...
Rumbled!
So basically to save a few pennies, out of interest how much per hundred miles would all this effort save?
