Originally Posted by
veganbikes
See your doing it all wrong. Let's say you are on tour and your chain gets some grit on it, what are you to do wipe it in, try to wash it out, leave it on? Your are probably going to be wrong in every one of those instances. What if you use the wrong lube? What if you use the right lube but don't it properly? Your best bet is to get rid of that gritty chain and replace it right away without fail.
A strange if not expensive solution when the obvious answer to this problem is to use a lube which does not attract grit in the first place. My post up thread advocates a lube which attracts
no grit at all but which lubes the chain perfectly.