Chain lube - oil / wax

If a chain has been lubed before with oil, is it OK to switch to wax or
should the chain be cleaned first?

Sorry for the bike-related post.

 

Wax is shite. It provides a nice covering that will help prevent
rusting in Winter when your bike's laid up, but has no use apart from
that. I've seen too many fucked chains that have been regularly
'lubed' with wax to doubt the veracity of this audacious statement
now.

Stick with a good-quality chain lube applied reg'lar, or yet better, a
Scottoiler.

 

Sling anything you like on it.

 

Komodo dragon spunk?

--
Dan L

Too much time to think, too little to do.


http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

It's amazing what you find in the garage.

 

Ta for the suggestion.

 

Fucking perfect.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

The chain on the Blackbird is always black and filthy. After the run
down to Orthez for the MiL's funeral, it was back to pristine gold.

A re-lube, and a run home left it nice, and shiny.

A month later, it's filthy again.

Perhaps taking it to Lille won't be so bad after all.

 

It's not looking good for the Wing then?

I'm going to give the 10R a bit of a spin tomorrow (first time on the
road for it in over 5 months) then lube the chain and it's ready to
go. I might check the tyre pressures but if it handles ok tomorrow
then I probably won't bother.

 

Not ideal.

MOT runs out Wednesday, it seems. One of the feted Rivnuts has
detached itself from the collector box[ I think the ones I got had
insufficient flange on the outside[fnarr]), and fallen inside. I have
jury-rigged some contraption with a long bolt, several washers and two
nuts, together with some liquid steel. I really can't face taking it
all apart again.

The reason the front brakes were so clanky is down to a missing
sleeve in the anti-dive piston assembly (replaced with a heavy duty
wall fixing plug cut to fit. It should work long enough for an MOT),
meaning the caliper rotated around the wheel (by about 1mm) every time
they were applied. A new sleeve (Takes an M6 bolt, and is 5mm long, is
around a fiver, apparently.

I still haven't bled the clutch, and the front tyre might well fall
foul of a keen tester. The tyre on the other front wheel is beyond
hope. Both rears are fine, obviously. FWR don't keep GL1500 fronts in
stock, either.

Other than that, everything's fine. If you discount the smoke from all
the excess lubricant and cleaning fluids when the engine's running.

I might abandon all hope, and return to the fray after the TOGTour.

Sensible policies ...

 

Yea, I thought the collective consciousness on this was to oil, and
overwax to keep the wet in.

Or little and often, as I seem to have got away with so far ..

P.

 

Or just a regular wipe of 10W40 onnarag, when it's up on the paddock
stand. The advantage of this is you notice if your chain needs the
tension adjusting.

 

A four wheel Wing? That's a fucking car, that is.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Given the amount of time involved in changing wheels, it's easier to
have a spare pair. Of course, this only works, if one actually
replaces worn tyres in advance of the second one wearing out.

I'll cheer Bob up by ordering two.

Another tyre quandary: the Avon Venom rears don't fit. I'm sure
they're not made right. Dunlops and Bridgestones drop right in.

The fronts, however, are brilliant.

Would it be wise to run Avon front/Bridgestone rear?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, geoff

Paging Mike Buckley!

Mike Buckley to the...

actually, I'm not entirely sure *what* you'd call that colour, but that
phone over there. <points>

 

You can report back on that when you've milked one ...

 

On that barge would you ever notice ?

You hardly thrash it in the bends, so I think your sedate err, smooth
riding style wouldn't upset it.

I wouldn't fancy running an azaro rear with a different front, due to
the horrible tread pattern, but I have run mismatched on an MEZ4 rear
with a Bridgestone front without too much trouble.

P.

 

I notice when a chain needs adjusting when I look at it, when I'm
having a smoke usually. Of course, 'cos I use a Scottoiler, it's
always other people's chains that the Fickle Ginger Finger of Fate
points towards.

 

Indeed it does. I have a pal who was waffling on about buying an identical
car to the one he's already got, but which had broken dow. I pointed out to
him the having TWO dead cars on the drive probably wasn't the best idea he'd
ever had. Then I got his broken car fixed, coz he's useless at organising
things like that. (Well anything actually)

Are the Avon's too wide? They looked massive when I had them on the Zed.

I certainly wouldn't, but I'm a ****, so that's no indication of whether
it's Ok or not.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19