Clean and lubricated parts work better for sure.Gotta love the toughness of those Campy parts.I have Campy 10 speed on my road bike.The components are 12 years old and still works fine.I use a Campy 10spd chain along with a Wipperman connex master link for easy off and on to clean. For those days when you'd like to remove the chain but don't feel like doing it, there is a product I found at the bike shop called: Rock and Roll Lubrication. You shake it up and apply a steady stream at the cassette while freewheeling the chain backwards.After about 5 seconds wipe the chain thoroughly.It cleans and lubricates. Leaves no oily residue. Also Rohloff and Park Tools make a "Go-NO-Go gauge that can tell when to switch out your chain before it wears out your cassette .Also you can measure your chain stretch with a 12" scale, pin to pin to see how much your chain has stretched. On Monday, August 18, 2014 9:00:15 PM UTC-6, Don Compton wrote:
> Maybe I am just an anal fanatic, but I clean my chains and cassettes every > 100 miles or so. I learned back in the nine speed days, that if I used a > chain too long, the cassette would also be worn out. > Now( my bikes are all obsolete Campy 10sp), I run my chains 3000 miles. I > buy the cheapist KMC 10sp chains. I have cassettes that are 10 yo. > Also, many of my Campy shifters have been rebuilt, but not bad since there > mostly 8-10yo. All my front and rear derailleurs work perfectly. > Campy is a great companion to my Roadeo. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
