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  • I find the initial chain clean the tricky part.
    The rest is quite easy.

    I’be been using ‘food grade’ paraffin wax (no additives) since January (about 5.5k km). I usually switch or re-wax chains roughly every 350km or a very wet/muddy ride (whichever comes first) on the geared bikes and much less often on the fixed bike.

    Getting good quicklinks helps.

    I just use boiling water, wipe, dry and dunk chains in a slow cooker. I’ve only used ~£5 of wax so-far.

    It’s a bit early to say if component wear is less. I’m appreciating the clean bikes and less grease around the house.

  • Nice! 350km is a lot less than I'm getting from speedway, but it sounds like the wax is far cheaper.

    Are you changing chains because it starts squeaking, or just proactively?

  • proactively

    This. I’d rather keep it coated. You can get rust spots (and probably some wear) if you push it. I guess in the dry I could easily get 500km before noise but I never get through that distance dry!

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