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Long-ish and very muddy ride at the weekend - washed the bike on my return home and then brought it indoors. I didn’t have the energy to take the chain off to sort it out properly, and hoped that there would be enough residual wax to prevent rust particularly as the bike was going in to the warm and dry.
I am swapping two waxed chains on this bike and got round to taking the chain off today. There were a couple of links with light surface rust, and a few stiff links that loosened up ok. To be fair I had left this chain on for a bit longer than I usually would. Brushed off what I could and re-waxed it.
I was hoping that the wax in the rollers would survive the mud and (water only) hosedown, but the 2 or 3 stiff links suggest not. Am I ok to keep that chain in the rotation?