Sram MTB Grease Butter, 1 oz

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Sram MTB Grease Butter, 1 oz

Sram MTB Grease Butter, 1 oz

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From what I recall, you only want about 1/3 of a bearing filled with grease. I guess this is due to the grease interfering with the balls rolling around on their races, causing them to skip and slide instead of actually rolling. Thus you drastically decrease their life.

I started using Boeshield T-9 on the recommendation of James@SuspensionWerx - years before I worked for him. I was wiping down and relubing my chain every nasty winter ride and it felt like I was going through litres of chainlube. With the T-9 I’d apply it on a clean dry chain at night (so it could dry) and then I’d get a few rides between applications. I don’t know if it saved me money but it really cut down on the volume I used and I found it a lot easier to clean my chain between applications. I ended up selling a lot of it in the shops I worked at after that. Edit: I'm in the east coast of the USA and REI has boeshield T9. I may give it a shot for the times I don't wax my chains to see how it compares. Its a bit pricey but I'm always down experimenting.Dump spent fluid into a glass jar, dirt will settle to the bottom, pour off the clean stuff for next time.

If you follow the instructions (clean chain, one drop per roller, only re-lube when needed) then the Dumonde Tech regular chain lube is really good. The bottle lasts a long time and that's what we've been using in the house lately. For trail use, I like how easily it wipes up as how infrequent I need to apply it (I'm not a hoser so other experiences may vary). And, I'm curious. Always curious. Since I'm using the Silver Grease in non-King hub bearings, and the Blue Grease in non-King headset and frame bearings, I'm also figuring on experimenting with the RDL-2 in a non-King hub where I normally run Dumonde Tech Freehub Oil on the coil-sprung pawls to see how it holds up in a non-Ring Drive application. Never stop trying things! The granting of a best price is not combinable with other promotions (e.g. "free articles) from Bike-Discount.

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I would consistently kill bearings on my V1 bronson frame. On my V3 bronson frame I've yet to have anything but silky smoth bearings after 15 months of ownership. My V1 had an issue where I think it was flexing under load, binding the bearings, and destroying them prematurely. My winter program is to wear the whole thing into the ground. An old chain, cassette and chairing can stay on all winter if you just let the oil/dirt residue build up. When I hit the shoulder season, I just leave the old drive train on and keep applying oil. Every so often I rub off some excess but in general just leave it a big oily mess. As an aside, if you have a steel frame, Boeshield T-9 is also an excellent product to coat the internal tubes with as a rust prohibitor. I do all our steel MTB frames every year. I don't see the point in running a new drive train in the winter and trying to keep it all looking fresh and new. A big ol oily mess actually runs better than you think and all the gunk makes it forgiving when running it into the ground. If I ran a new retrain in the winter and swapped on a chain or two, I'd have to replace it in the spring anyways. This way I just run the one that is half worn all winter and start fresh in the spring. Do you have a best in class lube recommendation either generic or specific to where you ride? Please post below, I'd love to hear it.



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