James Deuce
7th April 2007, 07:58
At last! I've found it!!
I bought this aerosol of chain wax because it was the cheapest in the shop.
There, I said it.
I'd been using the Silkolene Fuchs Chain Wax which coats your chain in a thick white titanium oxide gloop. Looks trick, by by gum it gets dirty quick, and I think if you went down a gravel road *GASP* it would turn into grinding paste. Well, just for once I went into a bike shop only able to spend what was in my wallet ($5 note, 4 x $2 coins, and a confusing melange of new coinage) and didn't have enough to get the Silkolene stuff.
I was 10c short for the Maxima stuff, but good old Kerry just went, "don't worry about it."
I gave my chain a damn good clean, using up about .5kg of rags, two toothbrushes, and 250mls of Kerosene in the process.
After the Silkolene lube, it was almost a relief to see a thin film of brown liquid exit the nozzle and quickly disappear into the innards of the chain.
Instructions said, "spray liberally and wipe off excess."
There's no excess. A quick ride round the block and there's still no excess and mind bogglingly enough, there's no lube flung all over the tyre and up the back of my left boot and trouser leg.
A quick test of the aerosol revealed that spraying the lube onto a piece of white cardboard did indeed create a pool of sticky brown chain wax.
Far out. The aerosol can says "fling resistant" on it too. I've never had a chain lube perform better than it claimed to.
1000kms later and the chain still looks wet. I normally lube every 600kms or so. Excellent!
I couldn't hold out any longer, so yesterday I popped the bike up onto the stand to check the chain. It still looked clean and wet. I lubed anyway.
Hopefully I HAVE found the perfect chain lube. Can't go wrong for $14 a can, I reckon.
http://www.maximausa.com/products/chainlubes/chainwax.asp
I bought this aerosol of chain wax because it was the cheapest in the shop.
There, I said it.
I'd been using the Silkolene Fuchs Chain Wax which coats your chain in a thick white titanium oxide gloop. Looks trick, by by gum it gets dirty quick, and I think if you went down a gravel road *GASP* it would turn into grinding paste. Well, just for once I went into a bike shop only able to spend what was in my wallet ($5 note, 4 x $2 coins, and a confusing melange of new coinage) and didn't have enough to get the Silkolene stuff.
I was 10c short for the Maxima stuff, but good old Kerry just went, "don't worry about it."
I gave my chain a damn good clean, using up about .5kg of rags, two toothbrushes, and 250mls of Kerosene in the process.
After the Silkolene lube, it was almost a relief to see a thin film of brown liquid exit the nozzle and quickly disappear into the innards of the chain.
Instructions said, "spray liberally and wipe off excess."
There's no excess. A quick ride round the block and there's still no excess and mind bogglingly enough, there's no lube flung all over the tyre and up the back of my left boot and trouser leg.
A quick test of the aerosol revealed that spraying the lube onto a piece of white cardboard did indeed create a pool of sticky brown chain wax.
Far out. The aerosol can says "fling resistant" on it too. I've never had a chain lube perform better than it claimed to.
1000kms later and the chain still looks wet. I normally lube every 600kms or so. Excellent!
I couldn't hold out any longer, so yesterday I popped the bike up onto the stand to check the chain. It still looked clean and wet. I lubed anyway.
Hopefully I HAVE found the perfect chain lube. Can't go wrong for $14 a can, I reckon.
http://www.maximausa.com/products/chainlubes/chainwax.asp