{"id":17580,"date":"2013-11-11T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17580"},"modified":"2013-11-11T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:00:12","slug":"a-clean-drivetrain-is-a-happy-drivetrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/11\/a-clean-drivetrain-is-a-happy-drivetrain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clean Drivetrain is a Happy Drivetrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/salsa_el_mariachi_ti\/complete_bike\/IMG_7574.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Clean cassette and new chain after some much-needed post-Iceman work.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/104740-2\/IMG_7574.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the <a title=\"Iceman 2013: Wet Sand and Fun\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/09\/iceman-2013-wet-sand-and-fun\/\">El Mariachi Ti was caked with wet sand from Iceman<\/a>\u00a0I decided to give it a thorough drivetrain cleaning before riding any more. Everything is now shiny and clean, although I seem to have let the chain go a bit too long. After ~1800 miles it was stretched enough that I immediately replaced it, and as a result the small\u00a0(26t) ring on the crankset is looking a bit hooked. I dropped a new chain on, and with replacements rings costing only $20 or so (much less than a chain!) I&#8217;m going to replace the ring as well before taking it out.<\/p>\n<p>With winter coming, contrary to my <a title=\"How I Clean My Bicycle Chain\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/how-i-clean-my-bicycle-chain\/\">normal practice<\/a>\u00a0of stripping off the factory lube and applying <a href=\"http:\/\/bikes.progoldmfr.com\/products\/?product=xtreme\">ProGold Xtreme<\/a>, I left the original SRAM lube on the chain. I&#8217;m normally not too fond of this thick, greasy lube because it&#8217;s all over the outer plates and thus collects a bunch of gunk. I figure that with the potential for wet\/sloppy riding I may as well leave it in place, as it&#8217;ll protect the chain from gunk penetration and be harder to wash out. With this lube the chain is notably stiffer than normal and it&#8217;ll likely pick up a bunch more gunk, but with all the other inefficiencies and sloppyness of autumn \/ winter riding I don&#8217;t anticipate it being much of a problem. I&#8217;ll just strip the factory lube off when I do the next drivetrain cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the El Mariachi Ti was caked with wet sand from Iceman\u00a0I decided to give it a thorough drivetrain cleaning before riding any more. Everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/11\/a-clean-drivetrain-is-a-happy-drivetrain\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Clean Drivetrain is a Happy Drivetrain<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17581,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions\/17581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}