Re: [CR] Lubing your chain with olive oil, and what else?

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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:50:06 -0700
From: "Guy Taylor" <guy.taylor@sbcglobal.net>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <70e14d4c0903311333k2abfbd0bvca5068d626cf3a3@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Lubing your chain with olive oil, and what else?

I found soaking the cleaned chain in melted paraffin to be a great lube. Th e chain needs to be lubed more often with this method but there sure isn't any sticky, dirt-gathering, grease on it.

Guy Taylor
Anaheim, CA USA

--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Angel Garcia wrote:
From: Angel Garcia
Subject: [CR] Lubing your chain with olive oil, and what else?
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:33:00 -0000

Ted's post reminds me of a comical situation. I was up in the Dolomites whe n I met Greg LeMond dealing with an olive oil lube problem. http://italiancyclingjournal.blogspot.com/2007/07/2007-maratona-dles-dolomi tes-part-iv.html

But, really what were the best lubes during the period we are all intereste d in?

Angel Garcia Long Valley, NJ

Ted E. Baer Palo Alto, CA

Was watching "The Brady Bunch" the other day and it was the episode wherein
Peter gets a job as a Bicycle Mechanic. It was comical as all he seemed
to be doing was flooding the drive train with oil from an old metal squirt
container. What I found to be clever was that the name of the bicycle s hop owner was Mr. Achinelli (a Cinelli.)