Chain cleaning?

[Metalor]

Ooooo.. I never clean my chain, maybe I should? I'll started when I get me Hornet cos I'll have somewhere to work on it too.

[cs363]

Someone recently said (on yet another chain lubing/cleaning thread) that attending to you chain immediately after a ride when it's still warm was bollix, as the chain didn't warm up appreciably. Having taking this (like all the other expert advice on Kiwi Biker) as gospel, imagine my surprise t'other day when I sprayed some WD40 on my chain as soon as I parked my bike in the gargre. Was that evaporative vapour I spied rising from the chain?
Can't have been.
Must've been a pigment of my swine flu imagination, or Scotch Mist or summat...

Well it stands to reason that the chain will be warmer due to transmitted engine heat through the drive sprocket, and possibly through the rear wheel from tyre and brake heat (obviously dependent on how far you've ridden), let alone the frictional forces of all the moving parts of the chain and so on....
I think maybe some people expect the chain to perhaps get hot, I dunno....

[davebullet]

Or clean your chain then fit a loobman to oil it on the run. Problem with stationary oiling is you can overdo it (causing fling off) plus the oil doesn't have a chance to "work" into the o-rings (if that makes sense). Just fitted my loobman and seems to do the trick. Cost $47 landed which is a bit pricey for a bunch of plastic bits, but seems to work ok. I'll post a review and photos in due course.