How Fast Does Your Chain Wear?
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As for you, I encourage you to continue focusing on your phycological health in a beneficial manner, so that you don't need to let out your emotional anger on others.Its never too late to channel your energy towards your own benefit, rather than as an excuse to temporary alleviate your sorrows.
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Thank you for the advice. That is good advice and totally worth considering.
As for you, I encourage you to continue focusing on your phycological health in a beneficial manner, so that you don't need to let out your emotional anger on others.Its never too late to channel your energy towards your own benefit, rather than as an excuse to temporary alleviate your sorrows.
As for you, I encourage you to continue focusing on your phycological health in a beneficial manner, so that you don't need to let out your emotional anger on others.Its never too late to channel your energy towards your own benefit, rather than as an excuse to temporary alleviate your sorrows.
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Thank you for the advice. That is good advice and totally worth considering.
As for you, I encourage you to continue focusing on your phycological health in a beneficial manner, so that you don't need to let out your emotional anger on others.Its never too late to channel your energy towards your own benefit, rather than as an excuse to temporary alleviate your sorrows.
As for you, I encourage you to continue focusing on your phycological health in a beneficial manner, so that you don't need to let out your emotional anger on others.Its never too late to channel your energy towards your own benefit, rather than as an excuse to temporary alleviate your sorrows.
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K, thanks for clarifying. I knew Moisty had come up with a really big word. Scientific, maybe medical. No fish tank but I do have a good crop of toenail fungus. I wonder if that's what keeps me from generating enough power to bend my pulleys?
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On an e-bike, I might suspect that you are pulling off from stops or accelerating hard when in too high a gear ratio. The additional help an e-bike motor provides seems like it could easily hide the fact you are in too high a gear ratio and putting a lot of stress on things that can't handle the stress
While I did try to be sparing with the amount of assist I use, I still enjoyed the boost from a dead stop and would often crank up the assistance before hills lazily instead of shifting down, maintaining higher speeds, in unnecessarily high gears while relying on boost, not keeping my drivetrain clean enough, etc. I was reasonably frugal, but after changing my chain I've become much more reasonable. I reckon I can get much better life out of the chain this time.
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I would also enjoy ripping through the gears to get up to speed while riding the boost which put alot of extra stress on the entire drivetrain, including the motor. I found that I would mostly be using the smaller cogs in the rear cassette as a result. Now, I use more range from the gears . This bike isn't for entertainment in design or my real world application... So I stopped doing that as well.
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This question needs at least two more qualifying pieces of information. One where do you ride, like if you ride in the dirt on a mountain bike, and the dreaded how do you lube and maintain your chain.
As I have posted before, I ride my recumbent only on hard surface roads or trail. I lube my chain with Mobile 1 and wipe the chain down before every ride. Checking with both a chain wear tool and a steel rule, I get right at 8000 miles on my chains.
As I have posted before, I ride my recumbent only on hard surface roads or trail. I lube my chain with Mobile 1 and wipe the chain down before every ride. Checking with both a chain wear tool and a steel rule, I get right at 8000 miles on my chains.
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My chains (x2) have 3000 miles on them. They show no significant signs of wear.
I clean them a lot.
Every 8 miles - wipe down.
Every 60 miles - clean and rewax. Cog cleaned and reapply ACF-50. Strip chainrings and clean. Clean crank. Clean and regrease jockey wheels.
Keep it shiny. It will last.
I clean them a lot.
Every 8 miles - wipe down.
Every 60 miles - clean and rewax. Cog cleaned and reapply ACF-50. Strip chainrings and clean. Clean crank. Clean and regrease jockey wheels.
Keep it shiny. It will last.