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Old 11-09-09, 11:14 AM   #26
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Default Re: Scottoiler v Lube

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Originally Posted by ophic View Post
My bike has done 27k and is on its 3rd chain. Sounds bad and I don't clean my chain as often as I should, admittedly - but I have always kept it lubed.

If I'd fitted a scottoiler I'd have saved money as I'd probably still be on the original chain.
My last chain lasted 35K and I only swapped it because one of the links had snapped.
(picture taken about 6 months later after the chain had been sat outside btw).


This btw is one thing you *have* to be careful of, because chains last so much longer with a scotoiler you *have* to regularly check them (you should anyway) for problems like this, with a normal lube you get to look at the chain once a week, with a scotoiler you could just leave it for months.

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