Sungura wrote:Not sure if I should ask here or bump the other thread...but actually I think it was Chad who mentioned oiling carabiners?? Where are you doing that and why and what exactly do you use? I keep all my gear clean and all but should this oiling thing be something I regularly do as well?
Also I read through the entirty of the other topic linked and still do not see any mention of *which* mallions to use for rack attachment just "use the right one and right size"...uh that is so helpful. All this talk has made me think to change my own (I have a 'biner right now, which come to think of it in practice I did almost load the gate by accident as the screw-bit of the 'biner got caught up on the rack frame so now it's something I always check of habit but why not be safer to start with?) but I have yet to see any mention of *what* I should get. I have a few extra mallions (oval, can't remember the size) so I might even have one already for all I know. It wouldn't bother me to have the rack harder to take off of the halfround, I just clip it to the side or I've taken everything off, or just let it hang for short stints (haaa there is a benefit to being a girl!)
IN my first post of this thread I said 7mm rapide/maillion/screwlink. ONrope sells them. Why oil? to keep corrosion at bay in the moving parts, and to keep the steel snap rings in the locking biners (retainers fro the locker) from rusting. I use white lightning chain wax. Any kind of bike chain wax, bought at any bicycle shop will work. Oil and nylon......no thanks. It doesnt take much chain wax. I only relube them after I have gotten them so dirty I have had to pressure wash or hang wash gunk out of the moving parts, as usually the hot water will remove the remaining wax. I use it on ALL moving parts of all my ascending gear.
Letting the rack hang has nothing to do with being a boy or a girl, it has everything to do with the rack smacking the hell out of your thighs or the inside of your knees if you are shorter. Besides, if you trip and fall while its swinging you risk shoving the rack into your stomach. and even though it wont puncture you, it will cause serious internal inujries that can result in internal bleeding and death.
Years ago at a fair there was a super cross and one of th bikers wiped out hard and shoved his handle bar into his stomach. there was no puncture but it ripped him up inside bad and he had to have several feet of his small intestine removed.