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Chain Maintenance

STUBBORN

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At first I thought, “Is this honestly a seventeen-and-a-half-minute video on cleaning a chain!?” Started watching and at the end happily subscribed. No wasted time here. Lemmy knows his stuff and explains things thoroughly, and clearly.


Cleaning
I did not know about kerosene. No recommendations about this or that expensove cleaner.
Cardboard.
Cardboard is your friend when cleaning and lubing chains.
Place a piece under the low point of the chain where all the gunk is dripping off onto your lift / garage / driveway.
Cut out another piece and place it in front of your rear tire, and spray the cleaner and lube in that direction so you're not shooting it onto your rear wheel, and again keeping it from the ground.
Make a spray shield out of cardboard or paper to keep oil and over spray off of the wheel and tire.

Lubing
You really don't want to grease up your tire. When lubing the chain, I use a spent toilet roll (the inside part) cut it on one side with scissors, then wrap it around the chain. then spray the lube with the nozzle inside the roll which prevents a mess and some getting all over the bike or tire.
 

SneakyDingo

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Lubing
You really don't want to grease up your tire.

I was also taught that you don't want to grease up your brake rotors ;)

Kerosene and Simple Green have been go-to degreasers for a long time. In my area, people get a bit weirded out about letting kerosene go straight into the drain. WD-40 is not recommended (but is good for cleaning other parts of motorcycles, like the panelwork). The chain cleaning tool and brush will spray grunge EVERYWHERE so like... I am a fan of cardboard blast shields. Ditto for how he added lubricant to the chain. This is a guy that likes using cleaning products when a blast shield could keep the bike much cleaner..
 
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