Friends you should never make this mistake to maintain chain if you have any bike.
What happens many times is that many people are very much troubled with the chain set of their bike. The chain gets loose again and again. They try to tighten it, but it get loose again. What happens many times is that the linkages of the chain get damages quickly and in this process many people have change the chain set of the bike again and again. This happens due to a mistake which is related to the maintenance and lubricants of the chain. So lets learn, How to clean the chain, how to maintain it, when to put the lubricant.
What many people do to lubricate the chain instead of putting the lubricant is that they put grease in it. Now in this footage, you see that so much grease is being put in the chain of this bike.
Now here you should understand that the grease also has the property of lubrication, but the grease is sticky, it is thick. It is sticky as well and when grease is applied to lubricate the chain, then because of grease being sticky, one problem that is seen is that when you ride in the reverse chain, the more dirt, more dust, more debris etc. starts accumulating in the chain and the big problem here is that since the grease is sticky and it is thick, due to this grease is not able to reach all the linkages of the chain and in today’s time, if you see, not only normal chain is given in the bike, here there is X ring chain, there is O ring chain, these rings also requires lubricants, by applying grease superficially you can think that the chain has been lubricated very well, no, not at all.
This grease spoils the reverse chain quickly and because of this you will either have to change the chain set again and again or their is a lot of noise from the chain because the friction increases where the linkages are and the wear increases because of which you get to see the noise etc.
The role of the chain in a bike is very important, I have seen many people that the chain is making a lot of noise, but they keep riding continuously thinking that the noise is coming, what is the problem, we are blipping the throttle, our bike is running, so we will keep riding it, no, look, everything will be fine in the engine, you get it serviced from time to time, you change the engine oil from time to time, but if the chain set is not right, then whatever power the engine produces, what happens to that power, that it reaches the chain set through the clutch assembly, the gear box and then what happens with the chain is that the rear wheel rotates because of that our bike moves. So the chain is the final power drive unit of our bike, so it’s maintenance is important.
So, I am going to recommend you two-three important things, one is never lubricate the chain with grease, many people will say that we have been putting grease for years, brother you have been putting grease but you never noticed that because of putting that grease, the performance of your bike, the engine performance goes down, you feel that brother you are getting a little less accelerator, then you bleed it more, thinking that everything is going well, it is not so, so do not grease causes a lot of damage, you should take care of this, well here one more thing is that what many people do to lubricate the chain is that they put the old engine oil which comes out of the engine this is also not the right way and it is very common in India that when it comes to lubricate the chain, never make this mistake, the engine oil that comes out of the engine, on the contrary, it’s viscosity is low, it is thin and also attracts dust, debris, dirt etc.
This also damage the chain, now here you have two options, after how many kilometers do you have to put the lubricants. The various options are, so if you want to spend some money on maintenance, then the best thing is that you put the chain lubricant which is specially made for chain, I do not want to praise any brand here, it is your wish , you get many brands in the market.
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