[rwest]

Time for an update!

It’s been over a year now riding on the waxed chain. I’m sold. I rode about 3,000 miles last year, mostly because I ended up with a foster dog and have been running as well, so my riding is less than I expected.

Switching between 4 chains and I did that 3 times, which means my missing links hit their manufacturers reuse number and I put news ones in the mix.

Couple changes after watching a couple videos: I stopped boiling the old wax off; just wiped them down with a microfiber cloth, now using just the low heat setting on the crockpot and finally not doing a cool down before removing from the pot- the cooler temp means less run off. Both of these saves more time and makes it even easier.

Another bonus benefit of the wax chain is that when I had a flat last summer, my hands stayed pretty clean, so the patch didn’t get greased up and stuck much better- hard to keep a patch clean out in the middle of nowhere when dealing with a tire and rim covered in an oil film.