Living through different times

[Katana]

Hi folks, I don’t know if it’s just me or others feel the same way. Just to give you the context the other day I was watching videos on YouTube about bike servicing and came across one which was specifically dedicated towards the types of greases to be used on different components! It was almost 45 minute duration video whereby the presenter explained the difference between greases and their application! It left me wondering why everything has become so complicated? What happened to the simple things in life? While I am not averse to advancement in technology and myself own bike with Di2 as well as bikes with mechanical group set and I know soon we will have wireless brakes too. But seriously do we actually now need to know and own half a million different types of greases out there just to maintain bikes??

 

[wafter]

Hi folks, I don’t know if it’s just me or others feel the same way. Just to give you the context the other day I was watching videos on YouTube about bike servicing and came across one which was specifically dedicated towards the types of greases to be used on different components! It was almost 45 minute duration video whereby the presenter explained the difference between greases and their application! It left me wondering why everything has become so complicated? What happened to the simple things in life? While I am not averse to advancement in technology and myself own bike with Di2 as well as bikes with mechanical group set and I know soon we will have wireless brakes too. But seriously do we actually now need to know and own half a million different types of greases out there just to maintain bikes??

If it was the same video I watched the message was pretty simple; suggesting one for general purpose / bearings and a couple of others for specialist applications.

There always were and will be optimum greases for different uses and the purpose of the video was to debunk the myriad overpriced, propriatory greases of vague identity and properties available to the cycling market; which I think it achieved.

 

[Chief Broom]

Im averse to modern tech, loathe it on cars and bikes!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I was a kid - oil was something that came in a can marked 3-in-one
Grease was something that came out of a large tub my Dad had bought many many years before
unless the oil was "special" in which case you used the oil Dad had for the car

That was it

my bike seems to survive many years without anything complicated or specially for bikes

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

In simpler times I learned everything I needed to know from this fabulous book. I leave everything to my LBS these days.

 

[Over the Ord]

I only oil the engine and the bicycles take care of them selves.

 

[Pblakeney]

Hmmmm.
I have one tube of grease, one bottle of oil (wet lube), and one bottle of dry lube. That's it.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Hmmmm.
I have one tube of grease, one bottle of oil (wet lube), and one bottle of dry lube. That's it.

I thought having wet lube AND dry lube was against the Word of The Gods in both realms

clearly you are bound for damnation and suffer in a Hell without bikes for all Time

 

[Pblakeney]

I thought having wet lube AND dry lube was against the Word of The Gods in both realms

clearly you are bound for damnation and suffer in a Hell without bikes for all Time

I have two* (road) bikes 😉 Different bikes with different lubes for different uses.

*Actually three but the third (trail bike) largely gets ignored. Yet is still seems to function when called upon.

 

[Katana]

I thought having wet lube AND dry lube was against the Word of The Gods in both realms

clearly you are bound for damnation and suffer in a Hell without bikes for all Time

😂

 

[esoxlucius]

Wider choices of anything in life, with a message attached saying how good it is, or better than what you're currently using, have long been marketing ploys to get people to buy stuff which they don't really need.

And whilst people do, and we all do, then that situation isn't going to change.

 

[fossyant]

Marine grease - that's all you need. Great stuff.

 

[Gillstay]

Correct. Bought on tub of Bell ray marine grease in Spain while mending the back wheel of a motor bike and almost used it all up 20 yrs later.

 

[fossyant]

It's ideal for hubs and headsets due to the water repellent properties.

 

[SteveH80]

I have assorted oils, greases, fluids and other potions in the shed for different purposes on different parts of my cycles and motorcyles.
I'm also of the 'ah fek'it' approach if the right one is empty, in a wormhole or just at the wrong end of the shed