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Originally Posted by chapo
I have 2800 miles on my stock chain and gears, only cleaned a few times on the bike with degreaser and relube? seems to be ok ? Am I doing it wrong?
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Absolutely not, we’ve been doing it that way for “forever”. It just doesn’t last as long and is messy. What happens is that the oily stuff attracts dirt and it turns into sort of a grinding paste causing the chain parts to very very slightly wear multiplied by every chain part and that is what causes chain “stretch” which in turn starts to wear the gears to match the larger chain spaces.
The wax completely fills the spaces in the chain links and being dry doesn’t allow dirt inside to wear the chain; therefore making everything last longer.
Online testing also shows a couple watts of power savings- but for most of us, we would never know.