And yes, that year-old chain is stretched to hell and actively destroying my brand new cassette. Don’t shame me for it - look how shiny it is!
If you want it to stay that way, use wax instead of liquid lube. It’s such a game changer to not have to worry about touching the chain.
Seems more trouble than it’s worth honestly. I’m sure it works for some use cases but I doubt the chain of my year-around mud basher is the ideal one for that.
Mine looks like this permanently!
The wonders of waxing instead of oil <3 (although I won’t be nearly as positive about it in winter when I’m rewaxing that cunt every 200km)
Heavy breathing intensifies.
Now I need a cigarette.
Mine hasn’t looked this clean since i bought it lol
What should I use to clean and take rust off?
Question, why would you change the cassette and not swap the chain too?
They both are the same age. I converted this from 10 to 11 speed a year ago. I guess I just consider a year old cassette “new” and a year old chain as old.
And what’s holding you back from replacing the elongated shiny chain for a new chain, thus saving the poor pizza-cassette? :D
Conflicting long- and short-term desires.
Can confirm, those two never really match together
Honestly, if your chain isn’t stretched, (use calipers to measure space in links,) you can get away with replacing just the cassette or individual gears. Just recently I overhauled my drive train. I only tend to ride using the smallest gear, (highest speed,) and just that one gear was worn down horribly after 3900 miles. I replaced just that gear in the cassette, and the chain, and retained the rest of the gears because they weren’t really worn.
I used to pull my chain and cassette, and toss them in a sonic bath with degreaser. Let them buzz for a half hour, comes out amazingly clean.
What about the pulleys? They gunk up so bad with oil lubricants…
Suppose you could do the same with them, but I usually just replaced them every once in a while. The cogs were only plastic, and they would get pretty torn up from the abuse of mountain biking.
