Re: Chain lube comparison

frkrygow@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Benjamin Lewis wrote:

You have a completely different experience with it than me, then. I use
chainsaw bar oil, and it lasts hundreds of kilometers, rain or shine,
whereas when I used a wax based lube, I had to replace every few days
and every time I rode in the rain. On sporadically rainy brevets, I had
to lube multiple times over the course of the ride.

I'll note that all "wax based" lubes are not created equal!

I've tried a wax-in-solvent lube, and it was lousy. IME, it was
nowhere near as good as a hot-wax application - that is, the way I do
it with a torch. I don't have the problems you describe with my
method, nor did I have those problems when I used the hot dip method.

Do you ever do long (e.g. 300+ km) rainy rides? I'm curious whether the
wax would hold up in such circumstances. What do you do if your
lubrication runs out during a ride?

--
Benjamin Lewis
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