Deep Clean Your E Bike Chain & Drivetrain | EMBN's How To
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มี.ค. 2021
- To get your e-bike running quiet and smooth, giving your drivetrain (chain, cassette, chainring, derailleur) is essential! In this video, Chris Smith explains in detail the step by step process on how to fully degrease and relubricate your drivetrain on your EMTB, however, this tutorial will work with almost any e bike.
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How often do you give your drivetrain a good deep clean?
Whenever it needs it
Every single ride, but nothing stops these motorised machines from eating through bicycle components like they’re off kids toys. I’m on my 3rd cassette and chain ring, 6th chain, and second free hub in 1500km’s. And I’m about to have my 3rd motor fitted 🤯
Never, Im searching to buy the tools to remove the cassette hope I have them quick
@@DavidPeake1 wow, It's best to just keep a good eye on chain wear as you can run 2 or even 3 chains on a cassette if you catch it right. ( this is subjective and depends on how much you shift, ride and the conditions etc... but wow, you must be doing a lot of riding!
@@embn sadly it averages about 250km per chain which is about a months worth of riding for me, and 500km’s per cassette (every other month). Conditions are dry, only ever done one mud ride. It’s frustrating, but I’m sure the component manufacturers will eventually get there with better eMTB specific parts.
I'm pretty happy to see that some of you are as precious as me ! Thank's for the useful vid !
Soak mine everyweek in tub of diesel chain cassette and jockey wheels,just overnight they still look like new coming upto a year of north york moors riding ,save loads of money on fancy cleaners
Funny that you cant buy covers for your drive to keep it clean?
But manufacturers would not want that known!
Love your videos thank you. Since owning my levo I can confirm that this type of maintenance has to be done often to get any sort of decent life from the drivetrain.
All that muc off stuff! Would be cheaper to buy a whole new drive train 🤣
I generally spin the chain thru a rag after every ride. And sometimes use wd40 on the chain if it's really dirty. And sometimes I put car oil on the chain if nothing else is handy. But it gets dirty quick. I usually just use wd40
On the chain because it's convient. But I will use any and all oils to lube a chain. Never had chain issues.
I use purple extreme, bit more expensive but totally worth it imo since it has very high film strength. Also only needs to be applied about every 500 miles.
I never listen to the recommendation with the quick link. I reuse it at least as many times as I clean the chain (4 or 5 times) in it's lifetime (6 months or 1000 miles). I have never snapped a chain at the quick link or have it come apart. I think that's just a money grab from the manufacturer. It seems to snap in just as firmly as a brand new one and is just as hard to take apart.
Me neither, but snapped the chain on new bike day on my new giant , and didn't have a quick link with me ! Bummer
same with replacing your derailleur cable each time too? Cleaning a bike sure is expensive apparently
Excellent coverage and knowledge!
Brilliant Video and a big help since this last lockdown my E Bike retailor has not been been doing any E Bike servicing so I have had to learn so much and you have been a big help thank you so much.
Thank you for the shared knowledge. Great video
Used this video yesterday, great video and helped me loads as is the first time I have tinkered with my bike. A bit of feedback
I needed extra help with
How to take the cable out from the shifter
How the tension should be in the new cable. Couldn’t get gears 1 and 12 initially.
Took me all day as I’m a bike Maintainance virgin but massive thanks EMBN!!
Thank you for the clear instructions! I'm glad I found your channel :)
What do you think about using candle wax and P.T.F.E. powder , I did this when I renewed my drive train 6 months back.
Come back from a ride covered in mud and snow , hose off the drive train everything just falls off , quick wipe down and ready for the next ride .
If I run my hands over the chain no black greasy marks just a waxy feeling.
Good info, thanks 😊
Great breakdown bro well played
Thanks for this very Nice video 👌🏼
Just got in the bike hobby there is so much things I’m learning
That's awesome you got into bikes! Regardless of the style of bike, it's important to learn a bit about drivetrain maintenance as it will help save you money in the long run.
@@embn hi thanks for the video. I ended up getting a folding trinx 20" bike with shamano 7 gear speed!
Thank u
A cheap ultrasonic bath is a worthy investment and can clean much deeper than we ever could
Cheers Chris. God I do this in my sleep, after riding for over 35 years. Guys try cif mousse for cleaning your bike, brilliant
Very interesting. Seems easy but is probably not. Requires a lot of tools a well. I doubt that I will do it myself. But wonder if my bike shop could do is as precisely or if they would only do a superficial cleaning.
Chainsaw oil, bath chain in jizer, clean and dry, then bath in chainsaw oil, refit with same quick link and away you go!
Great instructions on servicing your bike!
Save yourself money, get heavy duty degreaser from Screwfix, 5 litres for like a tenner. Also you can buy smaller cogs. No need to dump the entire cassette
I've changed hundreds of chains and never knew the shimano logo should be to the outside. Thanks for the info.
That they all worked fine probably says that don’t actually need to…
how long does it take you to do this whole thing when not creating a video at the same time?
I clean mine with paraffin much cheaper than degreaser 😁
Not very environmentally friendly though.
Really so it's never worth cleaning a worn chain I'd clean it anyway if I haven't got a spare lying around as many don't. Even a worn chain works better clean and causes less wear to derailer wheels and gears etc...
E 1st
nice and clear better than doddy
Great video guys but.
Did you not notice the missing teeth on the rear cassette? 🙈
Spraying de greaser close to the motor axis? Really?
I bought a cheap ultrasound cleaner from Aldi .... gets used a lot ..by mates!
Wow, when was this on sale in Aldi?
Almost Sick Biker level...
best way to avoid this disgusting mess on the drive train? don't lube with oil, paraffin wax with some PTFE or WS2 is the way to go. Rustproof, mudproof, wearproof :D and so clean you will never ever have black hands or legs again
oh and once the chain is off the bike, you can use simple gasoline to clean the bike, way cheaper but also a bit of a hassle to get rid of the dirty gasoline. but by far the most powerful degreaser
Love the wax !
@@jimbo4203 once you shift over to wax there's no going back :D
@Foxtrot Oscar just uncolored candle wax. PTFE works if the particle size is 1.6 micron or smaller, just got 0.1 micron tungsten disulfide in the mailbox today, I assume it works even better than PTFE (plus it is more eco-friendly). some say, 10:1 wax to powder is needed, I guess less powder (20:1) certainly does the job. check Oz Cycle's videos about that subject.
@Foxtrot Oscar i use white lightning chain wax, works great , its cheap also
Well thet was better than your last video Chris.
some hilarious comments.... or are they serious??? Chainsaw lube .... man that stuff is a sticky as treacle .... but...no!????
So just another advert from a sponsor? Pathetic