wd-40 as lube and never cleaning your bike and riding in grit.
criminalmadman on
When people don’t have a practical bone in their body! I have a friend who’s CEO of a multinational and he takes his bike to the shop when it has a flat. His chain looks similar to this too.
ValidGarry on
Lots of miles with little to no maintenance or cleaning. Grit gets into the lube, grit wears it away. That’s it.
aussiekev on
Highly likely that the derailleur, shifter or shifter cable is broken. The chain was likely moved into this gear just to take the photo.
With the derailleur/shifter/cable broken the chain defaults into the smallest cog on the cassette. Then the rider is only using the bike on flat terrain and just doesn’t care. The chain, chain ring and smallest cog on the cassette all wear together and because they never change gears it just isn’t an issue for them.
I_Piccini on
Are you talking about the grime or those two small cogs that look like medieval torture devices?
GreenToMe95 on
That’s fuckin greasy. Looks like they just kept adding more lube and never ever cleaned their drivetrain.
282492 on
Just keep adding oil bro
FirmContest9965 on
Some of you don’t have bad weather and it shows. A month of riding on British roads in the winter with no maintenance and this is what your drive train will look like.
Random_User4u on
Toast.
Endangered-Wolf on
Muc-off wet lube and gravel does that pretty quickly, if you don’t clean the chain regularly.
Left_Concentrate_752 on
LOL! I made one of these myself. Don’t get me wrong; I know the value of a working drivetrain. I’ve replaced chains and cassettes many times. But this one bike I was riding, it was falling apart and at the time I had no intention to put more money into it. I proceeded to wear out the sprockets until the chain skipped on all of them (the chain was dead too). The bike ceased to be rideable. Ironically, I was proud of that accomplishment.
Years later, with a need for a commuter bike, I eventually built it up again. It rides much better now!
Powerful-Scratch-107 on
Someone with big legs likes to push a big gear all the time, plus they use butter for chain lube 😞
DonnyDiddledIvanka on
This hurts my soul!
Ol_Man_J on
I saw this a lot in Florida – old dudes would be riding around in 53-11 at 40 rpm, they would doodle along for 20 miles and then put the bike back. Never once exceeding 15 mph, and they wouldn’t know if the chain was making noise because they couldn’t hear it. Every now and again re lube with some old 2 stroke oil they had in the shed and it would be gtg.
Maksimus666 on
I just threw up that is nasty.
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firewire_9000 on
User didn’t really know about the benefits of waxing.
cycologize on
Lubing chain, but never degreasing it. All that grit creates a lot of friction on that cog and that’s what wore down so much.
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wd-40 as lube and never cleaning your bike and riding in grit.
When people don’t have a practical bone in their body! I have a friend who’s CEO of a multinational and he takes his bike to the shop when it has a flat. His chain looks similar to this too.
Lots of miles with little to no maintenance or cleaning. Grit gets into the lube, grit wears it away. That’s it.
Highly likely that the derailleur, shifter or shifter cable is broken. The chain was likely moved into this gear just to take the photo.
With the derailleur/shifter/cable broken the chain defaults into the smallest cog on the cassette. Then the rider is only using the bike on flat terrain and just doesn’t care. The chain, chain ring and smallest cog on the cassette all wear together and because they never change gears it just isn’t an issue for them.
Are you talking about the grime or those two small cogs that look like medieval torture devices?
That’s fuckin greasy. Looks like they just kept adding more lube and never ever cleaned their drivetrain.
Just keep adding oil bro
Some of you don’t have bad weather and it shows. A month of riding on British roads in the winter with no maintenance and this is what your drive train will look like.
Toast.
Muc-off wet lube and gravel does that pretty quickly, if you don’t clean the chain regularly.
LOL! I made one of these myself. Don’t get me wrong; I know the value of a working drivetrain. I’ve replaced chains and cassettes many times. But this one bike I was riding, it was falling apart and at the time I had no intention to put more money into it. I proceeded to wear out the sprockets until the chain skipped on all of them (the chain was dead too). The bike ceased to be rideable. Ironically, I was proud of that accomplishment.
Years later, with a need for a commuter bike, I eventually built it up again. It rides much better now!
Someone with big legs likes to push a big gear all the time, plus they use butter for chain lube 😞
This hurts my soul!
I saw this a lot in Florida – old dudes would be riding around in 53-11 at 40 rpm, they would doodle along for 20 miles and then put the bike back. Never once exceeding 15 mph, and they wouldn’t know if the chain was making noise because they couldn’t hear it. Every now and again re lube with some old 2 stroke oil they had in the shed and it would be gtg.
I just threw up that is nasty.
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User didn’t really know about the benefits of waxing.
Lubing chain, but never degreasing it. All that grit creates a lot of friction on that cog and that’s what wore down so much.
Just lube, don’t clean……….ever.
That friction just eliminates chain skip.
I think it just needs a bit more grease
Ask Andy Duphrane… “Pressure and time…”
My eye just started twitching.