winter grit & grime

[Melalvai]

Not a question, just griping.
I've been trying to clean my bike every night. I let it go a couple days and I had to spend over an HOUR on it. Even so, I was still getting rust on the cloth when I ran the chain through it. I put oil on it three times.

I will do things a lot differently next winter. I'm using up a can of Triflow right now. Next winter I'll try a different lube, and a friend suggested keeping an extra chain in solvent and exchanging chains every week so I get even wear between the two.

[echidna]

Triflow is too light a lube for winter. It's really too light for bike chains at all. It's good for shifter cables. For chains, I love prolink!

[Xrayted]

I agree with the prolink suggestion. Works so much better and longer. Clean off your chain, put on the prolink, spin up the chain to work it into the nooks and crannies while wiping off any excess on the outside of the chain. It will not only lube your chain but it will clean the gunk out between the links that the other lube created by being sticky. It repels road dirt great too. I would never go back to triflow after this stuff.

good luck.

[Melalvai]

Thanks. I finally used up the triflow, and though I don't have extra money to be spending on lube just now I will anyway, on something other than triflow!