07-31-2020, 09:56 PM
After every ride? Wow
This may be news, maybe not, but these are not 1960s chains anymore, but high tech chains, with lube sealed inside the rollers, and protected by modern orings between the links/plates. With today's lubes, what we are doing is preventing rust on the link outside of the plates and applying a small amount of cushion between teeth and sprocket. If you never rode in the rain, and rode 10k miles a year, you'd probably need to lube it once or twice a year and the chain would last about 4 years/40,000 miles, requiring adjustment when it received a new rear tire, and rarely in between.
This may be news, maybe not, but these are not 1960s chains anymore, but high tech chains, with lube sealed inside the rollers, and protected by modern orings between the links/plates. With today's lubes, what we are doing is preventing rust on the link outside of the plates and applying a small amount of cushion between teeth and sprocket. If you never rode in the rain, and rode 10k miles a year, you'd probably need to lube it once or twice a year and the chain would last about 4 years/40,000 miles, requiring adjustment when it received a new rear tire, and rarely in between.