Teflon spray lube?

alihisgreat

eg. this stuff



I've just deep cleaned my drive-train; partly because it was mucky.. partly because I find it therapeutic and enjoy giving my bike some TLC.

Would I be right in thinking that the correct use for this stuff would be to spray on the clean stuff (chain, cassette, jockey wheels etc.) to give a nice protective teflon coating..

then apply my ceramic wax lube to the chain only?

danlikesbikes

Yep spot on.

I tend to use after washing to drive out all the water. Up to you then what you use on the chain be it wax, oil or spray ask the question and am sure you'll get a lot of different answers.

wishitwasallflat

Danlikesbikes wrote:

I tend to use after washing to drive out all the water. Up to you then what you use on the chain be it wax, oil or spray ask the question and am sure you'll get a lot of different answers.

Me too - it's also great for flushing dirt out of brake pivot points and the like and Speedplay cleats when they need lubed but I can't be ars88d taking them apart to do it .

alihisgreat

I'm all clean and lubed now -> just letting the stuff dry overnight.

I'm wondering if its possible to get a properly clean chain though?

The Teflon spray flushed out a surprising amount of gunk which I had to wipe off.. and the proper lube flushed out some more :?

Didn't really expect it after what I thought was a pretty deep clean.

wishitwasallflat

I've heard rumours putting them in the dishwasher works a treat but my missus has blocked that! No matter how many times I wipe or clean mine there always seems to be a way to get more of that endless black gunk out.

Rodders30

After I use my chain cleaner its shiney silver and perfect.

You doing it by hand?

wishitwasallflat

No I do mine with a Chain Cleaner - dry it in the oven and then drip lube onto each pivot - it looks shiny and silver but when I wipe off the excess lube - he presto black gunk! The lube just seems to wash out the gunk - its good that it cleans it out but the chain never seems fully clean as a result.

g00se

I put the black gunk down to the grease the chain comes supplied in (certainly KMC). Or subsequent cheap lube afterwards. I know a lot of the received wisdom is to fit the chain with the stuff still on, but with some added road water, it turns into a black grinding paste. And that black gunk stuff gets so deep into the chain that even with endless cleaning with in-situ scrubbers, toothbrushes in degreaser, soaks in diesel etc. it still reappears after a short spin after a clean and lube.


The solution is when you get a new chain, soak and agitate it in a decent degreaser (not a concentrated cleaner that also works as a degreaser when not dilute) for a good while. Rinse in water. Dry fully. Then use a decent, modern, low quantity lube. Like:

http://www.totalcycling.com/a-z/lubrica ... TREME.html

or

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/product ... -bike-lube

Some may think this overkill, but I like these modern lubes as you use very little, they're not sticky, they don't wash off like regular dry lubes and don't flake like ceramic ones.

I just put a brand new chain on like this, road for about 50 miles in filthy wet conditions and the chain is still shiny clean (though the bike isn't).