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Cleaning a Bicycle Chain

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Summary: After a few hundred miles, your bicycle chain can acquire a lot of grime. Learn to clean the chain of your bike correctly with expert tips in this free sports video.

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By Robert Davis
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Robert Davis is vice-president and a founding member of the San Luis Obispo County Coalition, president of the San Luis Obispo Bicycle Club, chairman of the Morro Bay Citizens Bike...read more

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"In this segment, we're going to clean the chain on the bicycle. After a few hundred miles, the chain picks up a lot of road grime, and shifting gets more difficult, and you're putting undue wear on the chain. Now there's a way to do it without taking the chain off the bike. And I like that because it's convenient. Fill up the chain cleaner with chain cleaning fluid. This is biodegradable fluid, which is nice. But you have to remember that what's coming off your chain is not biodegradable. There's a lot of oil, grease and dirt in it. Now, one thing that I've learned through trial and error, is that the first thing you do, is you put down newspapers. Because you don't want your wife to come out and discover that you've turned her driveway into an oily mess. The cleaner comes apart like this. The fluid is in the upper reservoir. Just put it over your chain. Lock it down. And now we're going to rotate the chain, and at the same time, we're going to push this button to allow the fluid to go down through the reservoir, across the chain, the brushes and clean the chain. And simply get a hose and some water, and clean this off. And it will be not quite as good as new, but it will be a whole lot cleaner than when you started."

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