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Is it called WD40 in Italy? I can never find WD40 or GT85 in Italy or Germany when we need to give the chain a spray. All the ones we can find are oily and we end up with black messy chains when packing the bikes to come home. One year they were so bad I split them off and dumped the chains.
Innanzi-
You don't use WD40/GT85 on chains.
black messy chains = too much lubication.
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It's not WD40, it's just some generic spray rust remover/lubricant, I also use it just to clean chain and then oil it after. I usually just use it as a cleaner and for removing rusty bolts/components (enough of those in bike kitchen), in winter I give up lubing the chain and just give it some WD love every couple of days to wash down the salt/grim.
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In other words here is my current bike kitchen project. The ultimate goal is to tour on this bike around Toscany, since I am near here. Since I was given this bike by nice people at Ciclofficina AmpioRaggio I fixed the BB (this included the almost impossible search for a BSA cup in Italian bike kitchen), changed the brakes and a laid back cockpit for this (old steel swept back bars crudely bent to a bullhorn and wrapped with a cut up inverted inner tube), changed the 6-speed casette to a 7-speed MTB one, changed the rear derauiller, mounted a friction shifter and centered the chainring. Thinking of changing the crankset for a MTB one and grinding of the granny ring, this way I could use the middle ring as a back up plan (I don't really need it in town for commuting).
Future plans include nicer tires (something wider, because commuting through cobbles in the old town of Bologna is a nightmare even with this 35c tires), tape over the current cut up tire (bars are skinny), mounting the guards properly, building a rack for the front which will take my Dakine backpack and figuring out how to mount a tent and a sleeping bag on the back. I plan to return the bike to the bike kitchen before leaving, so untill now I spent 6 Euro on the correct size seatpost, 5 Euro for a WD40 Spray and 1 Euro on a set of Chinese allen keys.