I have some legitimate knowledge want so hopefully this stays on topic past post three lol. It looks like it's getting about time for a new chain. If I adjust the tightest part of my chain to spec, the loosest part of my chain is like ???'s asshole after myself, BAMF, Kawie, and ZDA run a train on him in the Hess bathroom on the N. Run. AKA, it's like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

I was looking around and seeing different things about what to expect from chainlife. This chain gave me about 13-14k miles (I'm still riding it) in a year...last January sometime was when I fixed (see: unstretched) the bike. BTW it's a 520 DID ERVIII.

Should I have expected more out of this chain? As most of you know I daily the bike, post office style, which included a summer of commuting between Clearwater and Gainesville in every sense of the saying, "it's raining sideways" 4-5 times a month.

I've never really neglected the chain or any of my maintenance. I'm sure there was a few times where I stretched it (pun not intended) on maintenance...like oooh I really should clean and lube that before heading down to Clearwater...but nothing bad, like I said I stay on top of my maintenance. But I'm seeing people say they get double that I got out of my chain.

And, if that's the end of the road for my chain, that goes for my sprockets too huh? These things are just fancy paper weights now huh? They still look perfectly fine to me. The internets are full of opinions on chain and sprocket symbiosis, how do you guys feel about it?

The final part of this question is lube. Some like a dry rub, some like it wet. What do you prefer? Personally I don't like friction burns...I've used like 3 different types of lube since I've been riding. One I don't remember, actually 4 the guy I bought the bike gave me like half a can. They were just generic motorcycle chain lubes. Then I started using Dupont's dry wax teflon lube which was awesome. Least messy I've used. Sometime last summer I switched to Black Label and hated it. What a fucking mess. Honestly it seemed like it flung 90% of it all over my tail, wheel, swingarm, kickstand and everything else in that region, including the back of my leg. And after only a month of using it I started noticing pieces of the o-rings sticking up, like little splinters. After that I switched back to the Dupont stuff. But I truly feel that the month of Black Label really saw the beginning of the decline of my chain. From there on out it was just slowly dying. So can anyone suggest a good lube that works well, and stays put?

Umm, I think that's it. I know this has been the first serious post we've had in a long time haha.