How To Lube Your eBike Chain In The Summer
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- Is your bike chain filthy? Are your chainrings and jockey wheels getting gunked-up with that evil chainring and chain eating grime? In this video, Owen Coutts explains what chain lube to use for dry summer conditions!
⏱ Timestamps ⏱
00:00 - Intro
03:18 - Degreasing
04:48 - Drying
05:31 - Applying Chain Lube
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How disciplined are you at looking after your chain? [come on be honest.. 🤣]
I used to neglect chains when cleaning was a big oily hassle, but now its usually an imersive rewax after every wet ride. Its quick and easy... and clean!
Fairly disciplined, esp since I use that opportunity to check chain growth. I used something called white lightning a decade ago on my non ebike, but wasn't really impressed over wet lube.
Very with my fair weather bike because it's so easy. I have 3 chains if I ride all week at the end of week I take it off. Brush off the cassette ,derailleur and front chain ring and rotate in the chains so they get the same amount of wear on them. wipe the one I just took with a blue paper shop towel throw it in the crockpot to cook. Then take it out hang it to cool label it so it gets rotated in proper order. If I ride less then I let it go a couple weeks.
@@nomad-pq4yw8iy7v I've considered that, but the powerlocks that sram uses preclude that, since theoretically they are one use and would go thru a boat load of them.
@@vashon100 I'm not saying do it but, let just say I don't go thru a ton of them.
I'm a big fan of immersive chain waxing. The process is straightforward: put your wax of choice in a slow cooker, throw in the chain, wait until the wax melts, swish the chain a couple of times, remove, and hang to dry. Done.
Yeah how straightforward. All your need to do is remove the chain, get a slow cooker you don’t cook in, wait to heat it, then hang the chain. What a great use of riding time.
Hot wax for the win!
Owen is so immersive and interesting to listen to.
Thank you!
@@OwenBikeNerdI love all your instructional videos!!! Very clear and easy to learn more details about bike maintenance. Previous videos went too fast and skipped steps. Yours are great!
On E bikes.. can really see future tech going forward to transmission with belt drive. No cassette, rear mech, chain, degrease & lube, etc... Great video. 👍
Imersive waxing is the easiest way of maintaining a drivetrain overall. Wax is a solid lubricant so unlike wet lubes dirt on the outside doesn't get transported into the chain to cause wear. When it needs rewaxing i shake it a jar of hot water to get the majority of dirt out and then it goes straight in the wax pot. I come back once it's melted, give it a swish and hang it to set. A few mins later it's ready to go back on the bike. The drivetrain stays lovely and clean and doesn't gunk up saving so much cleaning time... and you don't even get dirty hands from handling the chain! 😀
I'm in Utah, so it's generally dry. I converted to immersion waxing a couple of years ago. Two chains per bike and alternate so that I have one "hot waxed" chain ready with one on the bike. I think I get about 400 miles before I change them out. Even plain paraffin works better than any of the wax (or non-wax) lubes I've ever used. It also permits complete cleaning and prevents grit infiltration. The amount of dirt and grit that gets removed in the process of cleaning the chain off the bike is pretty impressive. Cleaning the chain on the bike doesn't get it and then lubing just holds that grit in place. The only downside is that I don't generally get more than two uses on the single use quick links.
All of my bikes have two chains. If a chain needs maintenance, I just swap it with a fresh one. The other chain goes into boiling water for cleaning, methanol to dry, then immersion waxing (parrafin wax with graphite mixed in) and dry off the excess hot wax with an old rag. Simple and easy. No endless degreasing and scrubbing and dripping and wiping and filthy grease all over the place.
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Hello everyone at EMBN i use Muc Off wet and at the moment dry lube on my chain. My question is do i need to lube my Ebike after every ride out despite the Ebike being lubed the night before?
What are your thoughts on this please?
Thanks Matt
The slica folks recommended waxing the top of the chain right at the cassette so that it articulates immediately after application.
Where did the recommendation to put the wax on the lower part come from?
Howdy! -
Yes - Josh at Silca is one of the alpha bike nerds out there - so Silca's guidance for their lubes is great. This is Peaty's Lube - they've got some great nerd minds too! -
This recommendation is from me - its worked for me - on my own bikes and on race bikes I've worked on at the highest levels of EWS & World Cup DH's and the bikes I've worked on here at EMBN & GMBN - its something I learnt over time - and its from influence of lots of other great bike nerds - including Josh. Using this method I've found it allows the wax has time to drip in - and as you cycle the chain around it can work into behind the roller - using the smallest cassette cog/sprocket - means that it acts a carrier to help spread any additional wax lube around the rollers - and of course the main drive ring but spread less over all rest of cassette - until its dried. If your experiences and results are different thats great to know - so thanks for sharing - its always great to hear feedback!
Cheers
Owen
Great information Owen, but please can I ask. Can you use any types of chain lubes on an ebike chain. I’m currently using the muc off ebike specific dry/ wet lubes. I’m confused???
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the question!
So yes an ebike chain will see more loading than a non ebike chain - so potentially there's benefits to use a dedicated E-bike lube - potentially those benefits will be seen most under lab testing - from my real world experience regularly cleaning, degreasing and re lubing your chain with the correct for condition lubes can help as much if not more.
Hope that helps!
Cheers
Owen
@@OwenBikeNerd thank you very much for clearing that question up, I’m going to try the wax method now, keep up the awesome work you all do, love watching all you social media channels. Keeps me up to date with all things emtb and mtb. Take care.
Oh yeah, we're gonna do all that.
I'm sad you didn't mention immersive wax lubes. As long as you have reasonably dry conditions, they're generally superior to any wet lube on the market w.r.t. maintenance time, wear resistance, and drivetrain losses once you get them set up (which can be a bit of a pain).
W.r.t. cleaning, I don't think you went far enough. You're basically looking to remove ALL the oil/grease from the pin and anything that slides against the pin. The wax should be able to bond directly to the steel. You should be submerging and shaking the chain to flush solvent between the links and giving it multiple baths until material is no longer dissolving or becoming suspended in the solvent. After that first application of wax, a quick wipe with a paper towel or brush to remove dust is all that's needed before subsequent applications.
W.r.t. "water" in the drip waxes, that's not water. Water doesn't dissolve wax. You're looking at such lovely compounds as xylene and other aromatic hydrocarbons. Don't apply drip waxes inside your house - especially if you're in California.
i Maybe over do it... tend to use the muc-off stuff... ceramic currently
You might want to check out how far down the list that stuff is in Zero Friction Cycling's lubricant test table. There are much better options out there for next time you go shopping.
@@andyarchitecttop of another example I saw on CZcams though. It’s almost as if anything works good enough and all these biking videos are pointless navel gazing.
How do you clean a waxed chain?
Boiling water
Thanks - Great question!
Depending on the lube used you might have use a different degreaser - for Peaty's their drivetrain degrease is designed to clean all their lubes off - including their Wax based lube - but again other lubs might require a deeper clean off the bike.
Thanks for the question!
Cheers
Owen
I have worked with Bikes sins 2000 and Riding MTB sins early -90 tryid and tested everything, sins Four years back i use drylube Spray that you can by Anywhere (my chain holds up for much longer time) and use it on everything on the bike, the most importend thing is to wash your Bike more offten, wipe the chain as dry as you can and then just soak/Spray it with the Drylube, dont have to take it off very Easy! These Guys just overcomplicate it cos the bought into the makers fairytalees to by al these Expensive Lubes.
Am i waxing ?
no, my bikini line is fine .
Load of rubbish..I've used plain 3-1 oil on my chain's for decades...Works fine....Ha!
100%. All these videos are all the gear no idea bollocks. Just selling is more crap. We’re already stupid enough to spend ten grand on a bike so why not invent an hour long chain maintenance routine. Mental.