a new chain grease roadtest and subliminal warning!
Questions asking what do I do with the grease shimano packs into
chains: strip clean and lube with wax as suggested by the wax people
as wax needs a good clean stripped surface for advanced thought ultra
design and engineered wax chain lubes adherence to the metal surface*
or clean and lube with chain oil: are often asked. I asked it
myself! The question is therefore an intelligent question and not to
be ridiculed by experts. Like, there's this stuff right! Does it ship,
as ya canna shipit in oil stupid, and not run or does it… quickly we
proceed into insanity. Obsessing over nothing.
NOTHING??? GNAW! Grease lubes at a very smooth effective breakin
level. The OBS can add CC Epic Synthetic (withlinseed) or whatever to
reduce viscosity for colder climates where the grease drag becomes
onerous for the few days its on the…assuming the dude asking the
question cleans the chain. Figure he can type so he'll clean the
chain. Good luck.
BUTbutbut!(the sharp reader will note this iza new paragraph) A!
peripatetic poster delivered when A new HG50 was planned for my
antique and LO! On leaving the local brothel for a ten mile sprint
home, columnar cumulus moving in from the gulf of m spattered the
pavement after a light rain had washed balloon puncturing grit loose
from enshrinement in said pave's cracks canyons, meteroriting or
mortar ing the grit upward, yawl seen this in slo mo right! You bet!
And the new tight chain and this Tuesday baby is expletive deleted
tight got grit all over it. Yuck!
So I checked the new chain before I started out for the brothel this
morning, wiped it down and spread a film of CC over the grease. Then I
flexed the plates across the line of travel. GRITGRITGRIT in the side
plates. Make my day. A grit loaded new chain.
And off course a grit loaded new scram power link.
OBS asking whatta I do with the grease may not know what this means at
sunrise before a heavy day and today a ten mile run upwind but off
course.
New scram power links do not come off sans scraming and moaning:unless
yawl been inventive and done ground down some Chinese needle nose to
fit in there for squeezing the little buggers together.
Wall, while listening to T.Boone predict doom on the FM, MR.Cheapo
sprayed gunk bluster onto the scram, carefully catching the runoff ina
papertool before it polluted the environment.Made tea,came back,glared
at the scram for a few moments, and with a sharp pain near my
appendixes began to pry the new expletive deleted together.
Wall dagbnabbit if the little sucker didn't ease together just as
slick as ah you know what!
Sumbitch, I swear. The grease had sucked (will this get past the
censor?) grit into ever crack and crevasse and if run down the road
wudda worn expletive deleted out over the next ten miles.
No grease in Portland! But iffn itsa not gonna rain, grease is cool
for breakin. Grease is fun. But not in the rain.
We're pleased to report no balloon punctures despite the flying
debris!