Chain Waxing Made Easy - 101

Funny thread. If you don't feel safe oiling your chain with the engine on and in first gear with the center stand down, than don't do it! If you are comfortable and feel confident about it, than do it.
Thanks for this thread, I will keep my chain clean from dirt and my bike clean from over spray.

 

I tried this method & was very pleased. It is very easy to control the chain speed with the clutch. A job that normally takes 5-10 mins was done in 15 seconds.

 

My chain is waxed and clean!
Thanks

 

wow. such a heated debate over something so trivial.

myself, i just throw the bike on the centerstand, put it in neutral, and spray the wax from the backside while i spin the wheel with my hand. i do this about twice a week after my commute home from work (about 65 miles one-way).

Mike

 

Being out of the current day motorcycles/motorcycling groups. I didn't know there was chain wax. This post brought back memories of what we would do with our 24hr bike chains, before O-rings. We would take paraffin wax, melt it in a pan on the stove then drop the chain in it. Simmer for 30 minutes and viola the chain was coated all the way thru between rollers and pins. It really made the chain wear less and less adjustments during the race. Of coarse you wouldn't do that with an O-ring chain.

I would never use WD40 for a chain. It may dispel water, but it has no real lubrication strength between sprocket and rollers. I use PJ1 or the alike for my O-ring chains and the last one lasted 15k miles before replacing due to rust from letting the bike set for several years without lube on it. Sprockets were still like new. I matched them up with new OEM ones and was amazed how great they were.

 

Thanks Wabbit. For the last 25 years I have owned shaft-drive bikes so I needed a primer on doing this properly. Your system works great and I still have all my fingers.

'Course you should have moron-proofed your instructions for people like me with the following addition:

If-you-need-to-spray-more-lube-on-remember-to-put-the-cardboard-back-in-place!! Had a fine mess to to clean up on a hot bike.

 

Sure, there's some needless risk involved with the Wabbit method. There are safer, but slower alternatives. Funny, you could argue the same things about riding a motorcycle, to begin with.