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Originally Posted by rwest
I was even lazier before! I have the time now, except, the more I’m getting familiar with the waxing, except for the initial deep cleaning, I think overall it will actually be less work- no degreasing and that includes the bike frame and the rims as they won’t be getting lube flung on them anymore. Once a month I will need to re-wax the four chains, but I can be doing other stuff in the shop while The wax is heating up and cooling down.
The unknown, but talked about is how much less wear happens to the gears, I spent about $600 on a new cassette, chainrings and jockey wheels, so if I can extend their life it would be nice.
My 4 chain experiment has to do with my understanding that the chain stretches and that is a big factor in the gears wearing out to match the chain gaps. I own the fancy chain checker and have tried replacing as needed, but I always have ended up with skipping on a new chain; I figure the whole mess will wear the same and together giving 4 times the life of one chain...
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I beat my drive train pretty good and don't really take care of them like you guys. I ride them and put em away wet, literately but we don't have much rain or wetness here. At about mid year, the chain is pulled, soaked and apply Squirt or Triflow ( I am old fashion). The rest of the time a drop of oil on the chain once every month, now Squirt. I have never worn out a cassette and have been using Dura Ace normally for a very time but did use an Ultegra on my 11 spd. I did have some worn out cogs but that's after 4-5 years of beating on the same cog causing shifting a bit rough but that's a lot of miles on the same cog, usually the 17 tooth or 18 tooth. Using SARM now, so we will see how it goes. I have their one piece uber light cassette on there. Fingers and toes crossed.