I looked into wax after a friend switched to it, but I’m not sure it makes sense for me, time-wise. I’ve put 2,650 miles on this bike in less than two years. He advised doing it every 200 miles, which would be a lot of rewaxings…
That said, I do like the idea of wax over grease a lot.
You just rotate chains. The time to wax one chain is 95% of the time to wax three chains. If you’re riding hundreds of miles a month, maybe you keep five chains in rotation. It then turns into a once every couple month process during the riding season. The cool thing is that it also makes your other drive train components last longer.
Oh, and no black muck when you touch the chain on accident is another great benefit.
I looked into wax after a friend switched to it, but I’m not sure it makes sense for me, time-wise. I’ve put 2,650 miles on this bike in less than two years. He advised doing it every 200 miles, which would be a lot of rewaxings…
That said, I do like the idea of wax over grease a lot.
You just rotate chains. The time to wax one chain is 95% of the time to wax three chains. If you’re riding hundreds of miles a month, maybe you keep five chains in rotation. It then turns into a once every couple month process during the riding season. The cool thing is that it also makes your other drive train components last longer.
Oh, and no black muck when you touch the chain on accident is another great benefit.
I’ve started using this one, which claims to last at least 500km and up to 1000km on a single waxing: https://ceramicspeed.com/en-eu/pages/ufo-ultra-endurance-wax