The squeaky pulley wheel gets the silicone spray, not grease
06-03-20, 04:36 AM
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One ‘cure’ for squeaky pulleys, and in my experiences will really extend the time in between maintenance work, is TACX pulleys with sealed bearings. My wife and I have them on all our bikes which have thousands of miles with no maintenance done on the pulleys and with no issues.
06-03-20, 08:07 PM
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One ‘cure’ for squeaky pulleys, and in my experiences will really extend the time in between maintenance work, is TACX pulleys with sealed bearings. My wife and I have them on all our bikes which have thousands of miles with no maintenance done on the pulleys and with no issues.
Tacx der wheels sound interesting; oddly their website only mentions their trainers. They make several models of der wheels & it's not quite clear which model works for which derailleur.
06-03-20, 09:14 PM
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Here’s a screenshot from Amazon of the exact pulleys if you’ve got Shimano or Campy rear derailleur.The TACX pulleys are all the same except for tooth count and type of sealed bearings. They come with adapters so they can fit Shimano, Campy and SRAM.
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06-04-20, 06:39 AM
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.... I was using medium weight oil on the chain from time to time, to flush and wipe. The previous two months on mainly pavement, no problem. Started the gravel section, and the jockey wheels packed up with solid oily dust looking just like that crud above nearly every day. I didn't have a different lube with me, and couldn't have found a bike or hardware store until I got to Gibraltar at the end of the stretch.
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My month long tour in Iceland four years ago I brought a small bottle of 90W140 synthetic gear lube (left over from a Jeep differential lube change) to use on my chain. That trip was probably about two thirds pavement, one third gravel/cobbles. At the end of the trip my chain was disgustingly filthy. When I got home I wasted way too much time to clean it before I checked it and found elongation was sufficient to discard it. I should have discarded it in Iceland when I packed up my bike. That was my last tour with an oil based lube.
At a swap meet, someone had a small half used bottle of this for a few bucks.
Finish Line - Bicycle Lubricants and Care Products - Ceramic Wax Lube
Bought it and have been using it ever since for both wet and dry conditions. When my drive train is noisy, I apply more. If I wipe off the chain, do that at end of day ride. Chain is much easier to clean than my old oil base lube. My tour last summer, five weeks i Canadian Maritimes, I expected to get home and find the chain was due to be discarded, but the elongation was not yet at that point, I am still using that chain.
The two trips I described above were with my Rohloff bike, no jockey wheels. But I use that same lube on my derailleur bikes. There is some grime buildup on the jockey wheels, but not worse than when I have used other lubes.
There probably are a hundred threads on chain lube on this forum, I do not claim to have anything better, I am only describing my very limited experience here. If you ask a hundred cyclists what chain lube they recommend, you will get about a hundred and fifty suggestions, all different.
Thanks for posting, I have heard of their pulleys before, tried to research them more on the internet and could not find what I needed to know. But I did not check Amazon. I need to look at that harder.
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06-04-20, 10:33 AM
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Are bearing jocky wheels worth it? I saw a video review of the tacx from 2011 and the person claims 13 years and still spinning fine even though the nylon wheel itself is worn down so it did its job. It's only $15 to try, I've spent far more on far less so why not. So far I've never had a problem with my standard Shimano ones other than maybe the center pin getting some corrosion, expanding and scarring the nylon. I can usually clean that off and keep going. Most of my rides are in crud and possibly rain/water, is that a postive or negative for a bearing vs sliding friction based jockey?
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06-04-20, 01:36 PM
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Are bearing jocky wheels worth it? I saw a video review of the tacx from 2011 and the person claims 13 years and still spinning fine even though the nylon wheel itself is worn down so it did its job. It's only $15 to try, I've spent far more on far less so why not. So far I've never had a problem with my standard Shimano ones other than maybe the center pin getting some corrosion, expanding and scarring the nylon. I can usually clean that off and keep going. Most of my rides are in crud and possibly rain/water, is that a postive or negative for a bearing vs sliding friction based jockey?
