Thread: Chain Lube?
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Old November 22nd 18, 04:37 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
John B. Slocomb
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Default Chain Lube?

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 01:16:30 -0000 (UTC), Duane
wrote:

John B. slocomb wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:44:19 -0000 (UTC), Duane
wrote:

John B. slocomb wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:42:07 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

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As for bike maintenance? Well I learned that when I was 12 years old
and got my first (second hand) bike.


cheers,

John B.




Sure like most people here. Except I was maybe 8 or 9. But if I used the
same maintenance procedures on my 11 speed double as I did on my first bike
I?d be buying a lot of chains and cassettes.


I'm a classic case of the old story" "When I was a boy my father was
so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when
I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned."
When I was 9 or 10 years old I learned to ride a bicycle by coasting
down my friend's driveway and when I was about 12 I coerced my father
into buying me a second, third, who know's, hand bike whereupon he
told me that he was buying but I had to "take care of it".


Odd but I had the same experience with my father’s late learning.

To make a long story short, the "coaster" brake didn't work very well
so I fixed it.... consider how many times a 12 year old kid had to
dis-assemble and assemble a coaster brake before it worked right?


One of my first comp sci profs asked me if I knew Macs. I told him I could
take them apart and put them back together. I’ll tell you the same thing
he told me. It’s good to be handy.

Yeah, my point was that things changed since then. Oiling a chain twice a
month may have been good maintenance then.


I've always reckoned that the proper interval for chain lubeing was
"when it was needed" :-)
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Cheers,

John B.
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