Patrick has it. Since I've switched to Wippermann stainless chains and molten speed wax, I won't be doing anything else, with exception of using Clean Ride bottle lube to extend me to the next clean/wax cycle. The $18/lb for Molten Speed Wax sounds expensive, but if your chains are clean (ultrasonic) going into the wax bath, a half-pound is good for waxing 8 (or more) chains - so I've estimated the pound will get me over 15,000 mi - almost 3 years.
On Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 8:33:19 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > With plain paraffin, I was applying it too frequently -- every 100-150 > miles, because the chain got very noisy, very quickly. With Speed Wax -- > we'll see; I just started using the stuff. Ron says that he gets well over > 500 miles before he needs to rewax. > > Yesterday about 5:30 pm I dragged myself away from a particularly annoying > resume to go for a quick ride in the nearby bosque -- sandy dirt trails and > irrigation ditch roads. About 3.5 miles into the ride, a SW downpour; fine > silty river (Rio Grande thru middle of ABQ) sand quickly became mud. I > aimed for home and turned up the gas, but still, when I arrived home some > 6.7 miles total, there was grit on the chain despite fenders -- must > replace the PB Cascadias with VO Zeppelins. > > Rinsed the bike down with gentle hose; chain still seems lubed -- that is, > wiping fingers along it, it feels as if it is still waxed, but no more > grit. We'll see; hope to ride it again soon. > > To answer question 2: gentle hose, top-down. Bounce bike to shed water; > air dry -- rather faster here in high desert ABQ, NM, I daresay, than in > most places. I hope that, if the Speed Wax is as good as promised, a mere > hose wetting won't require re-waxing; at least, wax doesn't "hold" grit the > way oil does. > > Anne, you might one day consider a hub gear: all the gear bits inside the > hub, and only the chain and sprockets to get gritty. The ideal beach bike, > I'd guess, would have a hub gear (or fixed ss) with rear coaster and front > drum brake, and a full chain case. Can one still buy DL-1s with full, 360* > coverage chain cases? > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:52 PM, 'Ann L' via RBW Owners Bunch < > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
