Anyones 'Insert Quotes' button broken in Chrome last week or so? I can +multi them but clicking the button doesn't bring them up to add to the post... And you all know how I love a multiquote!




Wonder if they bumped up the price due to popularity of them…
Pretty much how these things work, especially aliex... Low sales. Drop prices, get interest, increase price, ride the wave.
So nice starting a ride with the temperature above 1°C, so to celebrate I did my first UK 100k since last September! That rather surprised me when I looked back, but it's just been too rubbish weather to want to ride longer rides. (Well, that and Covid in October!)
Saturday was glorious here, faffed around and nearly didn't go out as ground was wet -
not a spec of drizzle and a glorious social ride out! Sunday complete opposite, heavy rain all day and strong stormy winds. Some local flooding the days since.
Around 15/16 riders out on Saturday,
I had amazing legs - even considering I did the end race of ZRL Tuesday and then 2x TTT on the Thursday. I was going well, so did loads of pulling, chatting,
even pacing/giving draft to a bigger guy to get back in followed by a big solo bridge up when he told me to go - group had scattered on the downhill run back in. Flying -
focused on carrying speed! Straight to the front, good pull and little 1-2-3 a couple of us launched up the last ramp.
Weather was so good, went to the farm and spent 4-5 hours on my chainsaw afterwards, sometimes even in just a tshirt!
This is very frustrating if they’re broken!
Hope they've continued to improve! Any doubt get them checked out!
They say you can get away using a Shimano quick link a few times. I'm going to do a deep wax again in the next few weeks so I'll find out for you!
Shimano meant to be 'single use' but most chatter seems to hint a couple of uses is ok. SRAM I'm sure say 4-5 times. But you have to judge it when fitting it just how tight it is (or isn't).
haha just like the idea of not having that black mess everywhere. Although I don't get that much with the Silca Synergetic stuff (but I do clean the drivechain a lot)
Quite tempted for the summer bike 'just to try it out' more than anything else... Anyone used a standard slow cooker for this? We've got 2 of them already and use quite a lot so feels a bit silly to get another for just melting chain wax... Just get myself a compatible pot with one of them... One is a Morphy Richards and the other a Crock Pot. Both good brands so fingers crossed easy to get a spare pot for 1 or the other, providing they get hot enough.
Silca seem to be making quite a name for themselves, but anyone tried other waxes? I'm not adverse to spending but £30 on wax and £30-40 on stripping a chain, then £100 on the melting pot and other tools for something which takes a few hours work and then another 15-30 mins every week to keep a chain silent, just to prolong it's life another 30% is really not worth it to me.
I'm buying £20 chains and using 2-3 a year with maybe a £10 pot of lube. Ok admittedly I'm cleaning more (ha!) so using a bit more cleaning solution but I'm using the same stuff I clean other components and my frame with so I'm buying that anyway. So if I go down to only using 2 chains a year, I've saved myself 20 mins maintenance swapping a chain and £20... But I have to fork out £150+ in equipment, have to buy the extra chain anyway so I can swap them while spending another 15-30 mins every week. So for my 'commuting all weathers' it's really a false economy. Maybe the summer bike, to have a nice clean looking chain and get a couple of weeks use between applications...
https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Silca/Super-Secret-Wax-Starter-Pack/10PC4 Is this not the better solution? £25 gets you the stripper and effectively a cold/easy application wax so no special equipment and says the same efficiency savings as the other stuff due to the special lube?
@Shadowness this the stuff you mean?
https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Silca/Synergetic-Wet-Chain-Lube-2oz/SQUL might give it a go...
Only main thing that I'm not sure about is the range. In season, a week could easily be 200-300 miles of riding, so I'm not sure even I can be assed doing it every week. But I guess thats where the top up wax product comes in?
200-300 miles is in the realms of needing to reapply, but hitting any wet weather you'll rapidly cut that in half. Lots of stories of 'damp' rides with showers and riders having noisy drivechains after 50 miles!