I live in VT, so wet & green. I live 3 miles down a dirt road so all of my rides include at least 6 miles of dirt and many rides considerable more.
I am motivated to try wax by the timing chain on my tandem. It is long and it needs to be removed when we break the bike apart and stick it in the back of the car. Then it has to be reassembled. The whole process takes about 20 minutes and about half of that involves the timing chain and cleaning my hands. FYI, here's the recipe posted to the tandem list: "Gulf paraffin canning wax, petroleum jelly, mineral oil (baby oil can work) and beeswax. It’s about 6 parts paraffin (one box), 1 part petroleum jelly, 1 part mineral oil and 1 part beeswax. Then i get s small container of powdered graphite from Home Depot that they sell in the ‘door lock’ section. Very small tube. " I am also looking into converting the timing chain to a gates carbon fiber, which involves some real money - new spiders, rings & a long belt. Michael On Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 10:27:46 AM UTC-4, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > Michael, do you live in wet or dry environs? I hear wax is best for dry > but not wet. I live in humid/rainy Maryland and find Chain-L to last a > couple months before a reoiling necessary. > > I get 100-200 miles only out of wax. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
