Shimano chain life

On Apr 26, 12:38*am, "Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote:
| Mike, what is the soil type or types your route rides on? Is there
| digging or construction locally for spreading grit on the road
| surface? You ride in the desert? windblown sand?

Yep, you guessed it. I've set up a velodrome inside a working quarry.
Couldn't afford to pave it so a lot of dirt gets picked up as I ride, plus
all the dust from the quarry operations. It hasn't rained in 12 years, so we
he don't have enough water and have to clean things by sand-blasting. Guess
chains don't like that.

--Mike-- * * Chain Reaction Bicycleswww.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Sheldon missed that one: a soil types - chain wear chart
Chain wear here is down 300% with no construction in an old
nayborhood on coarse sand after riding thru construction digging up
new sharper sand.
Wonder who knows? drilling ? earth moving ? Ford ?
What's worse? granite dust or sand.
One thing, high mileage claims were not sprung from wet riding.

On 2008-04-26, datakoll wrote:
On Apr 26, 12:38*am, "Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote:
| Mike, what is the soil type or types your route rides on? Is there
| digging or construction locally for spreading grit on the road
| surface? You ride in the desert? windblown sand?

Yep, you guessed it. I've set up a velodrome inside a working quarry.
Couldn't afford to pave it so a lot of dirt gets picked up as I ride, plus
all the dust from the quarry operations. It hasn't rained in 12 years, so we
he don't have enough water and have to clean things by sand-blasting. Guess
chains don't like that.

--Mike-- * * Chain Reaction Bicycleswww.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Sheldon missed that one: a soil types - chain wear chart
Chain wear here is down 300% with no construction in an old
nayborhood on coarse sand after riding thru construction digging up
new sharper sand.
Wonder who knows? drilling ? earth moving ? Ford ?
What's worse? granite dust or sand.
One thing, high mileage claims were not sprung from wet riding.

The best conditions are probably places where it does rain but where you
don't go out in the actual rain. That way there's less dust.

The 4500 miles was on my fair-weather Walter Mitty racer. I probably get
fewer on the bike I ride to work on.

On Apr 25, 11:38 pm, "Mike Jacoubowsky" wrote:
| Mike, what is the soil type or types your route rides on? Is there
| digging or construction locally for spreading grit on the road
| surface? You ride in the desert? windblown sand?

Yep, you guessed it. I've set up a velodrome inside a working quarry.

Damn Cutter!