[rwest]

Hi everyone,

I just started waxing my bike chains; anyone else doing it?

I watch the GCN network on YouTube and they talk quite a bit about chain waxing on there and I have watched a few other videos as well. Seems like many of the pro teams are doing it as well.

This isn’t really new, but what is new is now the technology has made the wax better than the oils we used and are still using.

I retired a week ago and decided that I could easily make time to do the initial work and the upkeep.

By far the biggest hassle is cleaning the manufacturers oils and greases off of the new chains- they must be perfectly clean before waxing.

I bought a good looking ultrasonic cleaner which is has an outer plastic shell; not so good looking now as the Acetone took a “liking” to it! Inner tub is stainless, so it still functions fine. Apparently you only do the deep cleaning once.

I bought a $30 crockpot to melt the wax in. I chose the Silca super secret wax as it gets good reviews.

Rutager