The GOOD, BETTER & ULTIMATE Way To Clean A Bike Chain For Free Speed & Longer Lasting Drivetrain!

Use an old shoelace to floss the cassette. It's easier than using the edge of your towel.

First ride yesterday on a new chain and cassette. Also, it was the first time using a waxed chain. It was like butter! No chain sound at all, super clean. I loved it.

For these on a budget..remove cassette and chain. Place into old washing up bowl. Apply half a mug of the readily available 'Elbow grease 'liquid along with very hot water. Swish around with old brush. Repeat until water is clear. Remove and dry. Radiator is good in winter. Use Elbow grease onto a cloth and clean chainring Reassemble everything they apply silica secret.

Clamping the top tube scared me 😅

one of the better videos on quickly cleaning your chain and deep clean put WD-40 isn't a degreaser.. Gunk degreaser is great but one thing I personally always do using a chain Bath always use diluted washing up liquid to get the degreaser out of the chain followed by clean warm water

WD40 is not a degreaser

Good informative video, hope some day someone would think of adding a video to adjust / tune, changing gears !!

I'm mostly riding in dry conditions and only on tarmac. I degrease my chain every +/- 1.000 km completely with Muc-off degreaser. Then I rinse it in hot soapy water and lubricate it afterwards. My last KMC chain made it about 16.000 km and was only 50% worn which is considered enough for a change on an 11-speed cassette according to some bike mechanics I talked to. Let's see how long my new Shimano chain will make it...

I've got an alternative for biweekly-ish cleanings: shift into big/small, spray the chain with your spray lube of choice (lately I've been using Boeshield cause it tests well on the chain wear tests), then grab the chain in your dirty chain cleaning rag and run the chain in an S pattern thru the rag using the top and bottom of your hand. That will get the rollers on both sides. Alternate on the sides of the chain. Clean off the jockey wheels and floss your cassette with the edges of your rag. Done. Is it spotless? No. Has this worked for almost 40 years now? Yes. You should probably still do a deep cleaning once a year, and you should re-clean after every rainy ride, but for a 'quick, keep it mostly clean' cleaning and lubing regimen, this works.

I cut off the top of a plastic bottle, screw on the cap and pour solvent into it. I immerse the lower jockey wheel of the derailleur in this container and simply pedal backwards

I have a Wippermann Connex chain with 15000km on it and it’s still not past 0.5 on the stretch guage. I wax it occasionally and use Super Secret Silca drip wax every 200km. Dirt and oil is a grinding paste and the enemy of the drivetrain.

The Silca wax system makes chain waxing much easier. It's faster, much more thorough/efficient, and compact setup

Regarding the silca wax. You can basically put the chain in boiling water and the wax still wont come completly off. Now running waxed chain no matter the conditions

This video is April Fool's joke? I've never seen worst chain maintenance recommendations. It's full of mistakes.

400 to 1500 k? As in 400km 1500km?

Nothing cleans as good as a ultrasonic because nothing works on the inside of the bushings as well. If you don't want to deal with hot wax, there are wax-based lubes like Squirt which work great. I'm in a dry climate and currently using Muc Off ceramic which works for my needs.

A chain only lasting 1.500 km is considered to be good nowadays? Good God. 11 speed chains easily last 3.000 km and 30.000 m of climbing under a heavy rider. Good thing those SRAM Red flat top chains are cheap as chips. But yeah, ultrasonic cleaners are the way to go. Easy to find cheap ones on Aliexpress, some large enough to also clean cassettes and at least the smaller chainrings.

I mean I guess it depends on the bicycle. For my MTB a chain is 4$ the shimano cassette is abound 10-15$. One of the more quality chain cleaning product's or de-greasers cost about 20$

WD40 is lubricant dissolved in solvent. While it may do some degreasing, it will add some. Thus, the cleaned parts are not actually clean. Applying chain lube on top of another lube does not sound like best practice. Chain lubes, the good ones anyway, are made to adhere to clean metal.

Can anyone recommend some consumer-level ultrasonic cleaners that fit a chain and don't break the bank?