Nice video. Well made. Perhaps it's the 3rd cup of coffee I just finished, but you should allow double-speed playback. The video goes a bit slow. 
Chain Cleaning & Lubrication How To Video
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For sure man. Thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching.Nice video. Well made. Perhaps it's the 3rd cup of coffee I just finished, but you should allow double-speed playback. The video goes a bit slow.
You don't have to remove it, but you can get the chain a bit cleaner and get the lube on more evenly. I usually don't take it off, but I'm also usually in a hurry and pressed for time. My grunge brush does most of the dirty work for me.
You ever notice the grunge brush screwing up orings? Because I've had an RK chain for ~4k miles and had at least 6 orings come out already, and when I contacted RK about it they were telling me it was from the brush.You don't have to remove it, but you can get the chain a bit cleaner and get the lube on more evenly. I usually don't take it off, but I'm also usually in a hurry and pressed for time. My grunge brush does most of the dirty work for me.
Said they would replace it for me, but I had to do a bunch of crap and wasn't worth it. (Remove, mail it, wait with no chain, get the new chain 2 weeks later, then install. With classes starting, no way) Said they would sell one at a significant discount, which was $42 + shipping and its $58 + free shipping on Amazon so yeah wasn't much of a discount.
But yeah, I think that brush is a little stiff now I think about it, I don't think ill use it again on a new chain. My original chain also died from orings coming out, which now I think about it was around when I bought the brush.
Thank you ill give cleaning it a go in another 1000kms.
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Dealing with surface rust
I rode my bike a couple of weeks ago on a nice day after the usual wintry weather we have around here. The roads still had a light dusting of salt but I didn't think much of it.
Today I went to inspect my bike in preparation for riding to work tomorrow. To my dismay, I found a surprising amount of surface rust on my chain. We have had periods of changing temperatures that cause condensing humidity...apparently moisture collected on the chain and reacted with the steel and oxygen in the presence of road salt dust.
I decided to try some special aircraft anti-corrosion spray that was recommended to me by some guys in the UK who ride in nasty weather quite a lot during the winter months. They like to spray the ACF-50 on the exposed metal parts of the bike and leave it on all winter, then wash it off in the spring. I decided to see if the ACF-50 might work as a rust-remover in addition to rust inhibitor.
I sprayed it on, and brushed the rusted areas lightly with a soft brass-bristled brush. The results proved very satisfactory.
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I rode my bike a couple of weeks ago on a nice day after the usual wintry weather we have around here. The roads still had a light dusting of salt but I didn't think much of it.
Today I went to inspect my bike in preparation for riding to work tomorrow. To my dismay, I found a surprising amount of surface rust on my chain. We have had periods of changing temperatures that cause condensing humidity...apparently moisture collected on the chain and reacted with the steel and oxygen in the presence of road salt dust.
I decided to try some special aircraft anti-corrosion spray that was recommended to me by some guys in the UK who ride in nasty weather quite a lot during the winter months. They like to spray the ACF-50 on the exposed metal parts of the bike and leave it on all winter, then wash it off in the spring. I decided to see if the ACF-50 might work as a rust-remover in addition to rust inhibitor.
I sprayed it on, and brushed the rusted areas lightly with a soft brass-bristled brush. The results proved very satisfactory.
So is there a recommended brush to use?
I'm new and i don't want to stuff things up
Or just Kero and a rag?
I'm new and i don't want to stuff things up
Or just Kero and a rag?
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