One major oversight, an award for the hub of Awesomeness itself, ZFC! Have a great holiday
@joshuabuilds30518 ай бұрын
Gay
@zerofrictioncycling9928 ай бұрын
thanks so much for donation as well as support!
@LaurentiusTriarius8 ай бұрын
I was waxing my mtb chains since the 90's (99% paraffin wax, 1% oil) early 2010 I started to believe marketing crap about ceramic wet lubes etc Glad I found your channel to clear this up. Back to waxing since last year... 🎉
@CatManDoSocial8 ай бұрын
Thanks, Adam. You're one of the good ones and you're appreciated. Have a great break. Oh, and it's great to see the old intro back!
@zerofrictioncycling9928 ай бұрын
thanks so much for the donation as well as support, and also for your excellent engagment, questions and comments on so many vids :)
@danfinnis8 ай бұрын
MSW deserves so much credit. I ordered wax from them a courple times and on the second order they included a free bonus pound (2 pucks) and a message saying thanks for the repeat order!
@kevinriseborough15218 ай бұрын
Thanks for being one of the few purveyors of objective data in the cycling space.
@clintmichigan91128 ай бұрын
Thank god its Friday
@michaelpeace12018 ай бұрын
Thanks for the information all year
@infocuslearning8 ай бұрын
I think it was awesome that you tested candle wax and published your results. A perfect riposte for any venereal types who might suggest that your testing is not independent because you have a vested interest in selling the stuff that you test.
@redkeyspoke8 ай бұрын
You got the intro back!
@davidnelson9077 ай бұрын
Thanks Adam and hope you have enjoyed merry festive season.
@yesbuzz7 ай бұрын
Hey Adam, thank you for all the work you are doing. It really changed how the industry looks at drivetrain wear. I'm really interested in a behind the scenes video on how you maintain your setup, especially your direct drive trainers. You are probably the person who puts them through the biggest stress test. Do you regularly buy new ones or do you repair them?
@zerofrictioncycling9927 ай бұрын
Thanks for the lovely comment! And that is an interesting suggestion, i hadnt thought about doing that but perhaps that might be a fun one just for general nerdy info. The tacx neo are overall surprisingly hardy - i was pretty worried when i started that putting a consumer level piece of equipment through basically industrial level workload would mean buying them fairly frequently which would really hurt viability. I was hoping they would last 100,000km. the original went 225,000km. The 3 i have in the new workshop i need to do an upload and re tally to check where they are at, probs each approach circa 100,000km as we are nearing half a million kms tested all up (thats probs a good time to do that vid :)) Overall the the neo's are pretty easy if you have the tool to remove the flywheel. They have a very big main bearing which will never wear out. They have a big 6002 in the flywheel which lasts..... not as long as they used to before garmin bought tacx...... it seems they have gone to a cheaper bearing. or i have been unlucky with the neo 2's vs ones. The main hack for me, is that the freehub bearings (2 little 6802's) just are not up to it. they will likely last most people about 10,000km of ergo, which takes most awhile, but thats insufficient life before crapping out for my use, so i simply take out the spacer and replace that with 3 more 6802's so its running on 5 bearings vs 3. then we are cooking for circa 50,000km vs 10,000 or about 10 good tests vs 2. but yes thanks for the suggestion, i will look at doing the above for fun sometime in 2024!
@yesbuzz7 ай бұрын
@@zerofrictioncycling992 Wow, more than 100,000 km with replacing the bearings. That is really impressive. Looking forward to the video.
@infocuslearning8 ай бұрын
Oh good, you found your old intro!
@LaurentiusTriarius8 ай бұрын
Independent testing can be a bit like polling; you order a poll in a certain region about a couple hundred of carefully selected sample individuals from a certain demographics and voila, you get your poll saying whatever you want. U know what sells an ideal? "Sciance", or the illusion of it.
@zerofrictioncycling9928 ай бұрын
sorry i did an initial comment as i thought you were referring to ZFC gaming the independent testing, then i saw your next comment and realised (phew) you must be referring not to zfc :)
@benjaminchristensen6427 ай бұрын
Great video! Love your channel! What chain and product do you reccomend for everyday cycling to work in winter (real winter, snow and 0 to -20 dekrers celcius) cycling with periods of road salting? It gives me big rust problems now!
@zerofrictioncycling9927 ай бұрын
thanks benjamin! and ah yes that is a pretty extreme challenge! check the waxing and wet video - but basically the path you take is going to be based on a few things - ie price of groupset and how much you want to preserve against wear - if its a good $$ groupset - then a path that focusses on resetting contamination as much as practical (ie immersive waxing, multiple chains on rotation) is something to look at. If groupset is budget and the aim is just to hammer it through winter with minimal time spent on trying to keep chain low friction, you just dont want it to rust - then really all you need is good wet lube. If salted roads and rust an issue, then you will want to wipe post ride at work with isopropyl alcohol spray and microfiber cloth, and do same when home adding a very light top up to protect against any oxidation - it can even be jsut put some lubricant on cloth and wipe chain so not over lubricating if doing every wet day and its wet multiple days (again how much lubricant you need to replace will be individual to you - how long is commute, how wet etc - if it got smashed - re lube, if just spayed -then simply light re-coating of surface to protect and not over lube which is a mess etc). hope that helps a bit to start!
@benjaminchristensen6427 ай бұрын
Thank you for an in depth answer, that helps a lot! 💫☺️
@pauljogever32827 ай бұрын
Merry Xmas & Happy New Year Josh, I use Silka Immersive wax on 2 e-bikes with the drip as a backup. Love your in depth independent reviews. Do you rate using the commercial grease and wax removers the paint shops sell. Hydrocarbon based, seem to work well and clean the chain well. I then do a turps, metho, acetone clean after and the chains look like new
@zerofrictioncycling9926 ай бұрын
Hey paul sorry for delay, still catching up a bit post jan leave! I think most such products will be fine - but you could be doing a lot of steps all up there - ie it sounds like grease and wax remover then turps then metho then acetone. Thats a process. And wax and grease remover tends to be very expensive. A few 250ml baths of turps (with an initial 15 mins soak), dry, 2 x 250ml baths of metho - dry - that is perfect for most chains (sram usually a couple more cos... sram factory grease is a pain in the taint). Acetone vs metho is brilliant - but again, generally more expensive, and a lot more fumes to worry about -metho is easy stuff to handle.
@Savaios7 ай бұрын
Hey Adam and guys. Can somone1 help me? 1 Is this ok to use Sram PG1170 36t cassete with GRX Di2 817 2 If Yes , should i use Sram Chain or Shimano HG11 chain?
@zerofrictioncycling9927 ай бұрын
Hey savaios! - oooh could be tricky - the 817 is for min 40t cassettes, so the parallelogram of the mech wont move right for 36t max (it will step down / up at higher amounts as it will expecting larger radius jumps in cog sizes - so your guide wheel, when set correctly to clear the 36t cog - may remain too tight to subsequent cogs. to prevent that you would have to set further out for the 36t, and all up - you can usually get it fine, just more faffy to get it to shift beautifuly accross the range vs being not perfect in some spots. The 815 mech is made for a 34t, so that will be a closer match re how the mech moves to the step changes in cog radius. But.... then if you did want to go to a larger cassette in future, you will have a worse problem trying to get it to work. (watch my when 1x goes wrong video). for 11spd, srams xx1 chain is very long lasting but not super fast. shimano ultegra is fast but moderate longevity. YBN is a great balance of both speed and longevity so they are the main recommendation for 11spd systems.
@Savaios7 ай бұрын
@@zerofrictioncycling992 Thank you.
@Savaios7 ай бұрын
I will switch to xtr or xt cs. I think will be safer.