08-30-2017, 06:42 AM
I'm surprised that Honda still recommends 80weight gear oil to lube the chain. That's what they recommended back in the days before o-ring chains.
Back then a heavy and relatively sticky lube was required to penetrate the rollers and stay there for awhile. It was messy and to you had to do it every few hundred miles if you wanted you chain to last 10K miles.
A sealed o-ring or x-ring chain just doesn't need a thick, heavy lube like that. A light silicone or Teflon based lube does the job nicely and doesn't attract much dirt and grit. I used to use DuPont silicone/teflon until they came out with their Chain Saver product, which keeps the chain even cleaner. A quick spritz every 500 miles (or whenever the chain gets noisy) and I'm good to go. I do it (carefully) on the center stand with the bike idling in 1st and it takes less than a minute.
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Back then a heavy and relatively sticky lube was required to penetrate the rollers and stay there for awhile. It was messy and to you had to do it every few hundred miles if you wanted you chain to last 10K miles.
A sealed o-ring or x-ring chain just doesn't need a thick, heavy lube like that. A light silicone or Teflon based lube does the job nicely and doesn't attract much dirt and grit. I used to use DuPont silicone/teflon until they came out with their Chain Saver product, which keeps the chain even cleaner. A quick spritz every 500 miles (or whenever the chain gets noisy) and I'm good to go. I do it (carefully) on the center stand with the bike idling in 1st and it takes less than a minute.
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