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Rohloff Internal Hub Gears / Re: Rohloff drivetrain wear: when to replace chain, sprocket, chainring?
« Last post by martinf on Today at 03:23:25 PM »Motorbike chains are different to ours as they have O rings keeping the original lube inside the rollers - and dirt, water and chainlube out. Motorbike chain lube is more to lubricate the roller / sprocket interface.
Personally I think a thinner chain oil is better on a cycle chain so it can seep into the rollers (no O rings).
I intend to try this product :
https://www.wemoto.fr/pieces/hu4897?srsltid=AfmBOoowINysP1_XKCMyTUz_1jrHSIgqqe9KwwuhWKu3zmcDzORBnRN9
It's pretty cheap, and the ads say it's easy to apply. If it doesn't work I'll go back to oil once the factory lubricant is gone.
I don't mind opening the ChainGlider to add oil after a period of wet weather on my own bikes, but there are two bikes with ChainGliders in the park of bicycles I maintain for a nature reserve on an island.
After slightly more than a month of rain (plus a bit of salt) the one with an oil lubricated chain had the oil washed off and the chain going rusty. The other one, with the original rather sticky factory lubricant on the chain, was perfectly OK.

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