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Old shop guy told me to stop using Park Tool chain whip grease. I rolled my eyes for 6 months.
He said it gunks up the freehub pawls over time and causes skipping. I figured he was just being a grumpy old timer. Then I had a customer's bike come back three times with a sticky freehub. Cleaned all that grease out of the ratcheting mechanism and it's been fine every since. Any of you guys just use a dry lube or thin oil on the chain whip instead?
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blair_davis5022d agoMost Upvoted
Jumped down a rabbit hole with this same logic last week. Realized the whole "specialized tool needs special grease" thing is just marketing fluff. Like when my buddy spent $40 on "ceramic chain lube" for his road bike and I just hit mine with triflow and it runs perfectly fine. People overthink this stuff. A little drop of light oil on the chain whip threads or just running it dry is plenty. The old guy was probably onto something with keeping things simple and not gunking up the works.
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linda_mason8217d ago
And it's the same with everything now, from washing your car to sharpening kitchen knives. There's always some $60 chemical or gadget that promises to be the only thing that works. But most of the time, the cheap, simple stuff our parents used still gets the job done just fine.
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