Run Through Gears to Disperse Lubricant When Lubricating a Mountain Bike Chain

Video Transcript

"Little bit of lube on the top rollers too. If you get close you can see little lube droplets on pretty much everything. What I am going to do now is I am going to run the bike through the gears to create some sort of inertial force to drive the lube inside and also get everything moved around between all the various bushings and wear plates and other plates. After ideally a minute or so of working things through, you can take your clean rag or not so clean rag but a rag that you can tell if it is getting dirtier and what you want to do is run the chain backwards with your hands on either side of the plates and just sort of get off that little bit of extra lube and that helps things keep a little bit drier, a little bit better operating and you've got a healthy clean packy drive train that will serve you well for miles to come. "