I used ProLink this winter because I found a bottle of it in a toolbox and figured I wouldn't get weepy about using it frequently and copiously over what became an epic slop season on my commuter. All other reports aside, my chain has lasted the whole season, dimensionally intact, using this lube as directed. Often, without concern for its value per unit of measure.
I wasn't the biggest driveline hygienist over the winter, It's was just too wickedly cold and I had no safe place to "bird bath" the commute with my garden sprayer; I mostly just knocked the slush/snow/sleet/rime/salt slop out of the fenders and off the wheels, rolled it to its parking place, chain wiped and examined for lube need every third day or so unless really nasty. Patrick's riding doesn't seem to include the sort of urban hazards of my winter riding, but I long ago gave up on the wax-depositing or "dry" lubes due to increase in chain consumption under their iffy protection. Pretty is as pretty does in my compilation of this winter's testing. ProLink wasn't notably filthy, smelly or so greasy as to avoid touching but it wasn't dry. What it did was never fall short as a lube, all previous reviews aside. I have to compliment the mudflap templates Jan published in BQ last year. While not using one reaching ground level, the one I fashioned (the third material attempt) from a scrap of flat roof torch-down material that stopped significant amounts of front wheel-flung winter slurry from saturating the chain, BB and chain rings, but allowing enough to go beneath it so as not to build up such a huge glob of flap breaking accumulation, the shortcoming of the longer first two iterations which did scrape on a steeply leaned turn. And they both failed because of stopping everything which then froze to and broke them Moderation wins again. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh, where it has snowed all day. On Monday, April 14, 2014 7:37:53 PM UTC-4, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > I went back and looked at the various lubes I've tried and they are all > variations on the "dry wax." So that path has been tried. The Chain-L looks > well worth trying. So I will try the wet lube next and see how it goes. > Given that Boeshield and White Lightening and the rest last me at most 10 > hours of riding, its time to move on. I suspect that even under ideal > conditions, the steeper riding I do is rough on a lube, so wet that > reapplies itself internally makes sense. > > With abandon, > Patrick > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
