13/01/09 - Rusty chain day.

[palinurus]

First rain for about a month following three weeks of road gritting. I even had the sense to give it a squirt of lube when I got home yesterday (not that I spent long on it- it was raining). Didn't help much, you should see it. Often I'll see someone riding around on a cheap MTB with a really rusty'n'dry chain and it pains me.

My chain looks like that.

It's gotta go soon anyway, chain checker says so. Hopefully I'll have time for a good fettling session at the weekend.

 

[goo_mason]

First rain for about a month following three weeks of road gritting. I even had the sense to give it a squirt of lube when I got home yesterday (not that I spent long on it- it was raining). Didn't help much, you should see it. Often I'll see someone riding around on a cheap MTB with a really rusty'n'dry chain and it pains me.

My chain looks like that.

It's gotta go soon anyway, chain checker says so. Hopefully I'll have time for a good fettling session at the weekend.

Thanks for the reminder - I've now run my current chain for over 500 miles so I'm going to change it (I bought a KMC chain in a ProBikeKit sale last year) and see if this "swap over at 500 miles to avoid chainring / cassette wear" lark actually works !

My current chain was starting to look a bit rusty after I gave the bike a wash on Sunday and wandered off, forgetting to wipe the chain dry and lube it. By the time I remembered 3 hrs later, the rust was everywhere !

 

[hackbike 666]

My chain looks like that as well,squirted it with wd40 and some 3 in 1 yesterday.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I lube mine all the time and it's still rusty - my nuts are discoloured too!

 

[hackbike 666]

Fnar Fnar!

 

[tyred]

What the outside of a chain looks like doesn't really matter, it's the inside that matters.

 

[fossyant]

What the outside of a chain looks like doesn't really matter, it's the inside that matters.

Course it matters - shiney silver....

My chain was freshly wiped and re-lubed with a drop of wet lube last night..... got to work today (rainy ride).....it's a black mess - all the salty gunge from the road - I'll be wiping away with a vengance again tonight...... - then re-lube again.

 

[Bodhbh]

Might be imagining it, but think we could also do with a pothole day the amount of new ones that have cropped up since the cold snap.

 

[beanzontoast]

Might be imagining it, but think we could also do with a pothole day the amount of new ones that have cropped up since the cold snap.

What on earth are those perfectly circular potholes about 6 inches across, steep sided, and 2 inches deep all about? I've seen a few recently. Is this the cycling equivalent of crop circles?

 

[magnatom]

Might be imagining it, but think we could also do with a pothole day the amount of new ones that have cropped up since the cold snap.

It's not surprising. Water gets into cracks, the water freezes and expands the crack widens.... I'm guessing but I would expect that cold snaps woudl increase the amount of potholes. Councils should sort them out quicker of course!