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@bothwell
Welp, I finished this morning at about 9:30am. 101% complete which is more pleasing than 100%. All ridden on my Sweet Fixie™
I cleaned my drivetrain exactly once, fairly unenthusiastically, on Christmas Eve, and have ignored it completely since then except to look at it and think "christ, that looks bad. Is there any lube left on that at all? I don't think so, it looks drier than the surface of the moon. And what the hell is that crusty stuff there with the twigs and the leaves sticking out?"
New Year's resolution: buy new chain before daylight becomes visible through the old one