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Jones have a lot of sweep but SQLab have some with moderate sweep: https://www.sq-lab.com/en/product-category/bike-handlebars

Your words, not mine. If you weren't taking this personally, you wouldn't be trying to put words into my mouth.

talk about not letting it die...

Yes, really. You are way over-hyping with terms like "magic" and"no wear" and "not showing any wear", and people need to be aware that your hyperbole is not factual, and your claims of "top coat" and "sealing" have no theoretical support (which was not pointed out by me, btw). You also haven't...

That's not what I said. I said they don't enable measurement of incremental wear. Sure, they work for Go/No-Go of wear at 0.5%, some of them also at 0.75% Your point was that the combo of these products is "Magic" and resulted in "virtually no wear." Right not scientific, just magic, lol...

In my mind, it’s more the large number of variables involved and the difficulty of rigorous testing that will make this search never ending. From metallurgy of the chains to how lube is applied to conditions it is operated in to the time it takes to do a long enough term test, etc. There is no...

You've posted this in like 2 threads now, but you're using chain checkers that are themselves unable to measure chain wear accurately, and not at all below a 0.5% threshold (and then nothing additional until 0.75% is reached). Using those checkers, you can't honestly say "zero wear" since...

Well, those are just go/no-go checkers that won't show any wear until 0.5% wear is reached. Using them, you can't honestly say "no measurable wear" since you're using tools that can't measure wear below that threshold. A caliper-based checker (see this EBR thread) can tell you incremental wear...

Which checkers are you using? Only caliper-based ones show incremental wear easily.

Thanks for the feedback on the DuPont spray. Guess I'll stick (pun intended) with NixFrixShun.

I've been using NixFrixShun Ultimate Chain Lube on my chain for a few years now and been pretty happy (not that that means anything since there are so many factors affecting chain longetivity). Lately I've noticed new spray-based products aimed at the bicycle market. What's interesting is...

Thanks for the update. Looks like Sena lost a sale.

BTW, I finally got my wife to try out the Sena M1 Evo this past couple of weeks. After some fiddling with the pads, she likes it. She was concerned about the additional weight, but in use that hasn't been a problem for her. We really like being about to chat during the ride and where/when to...

Does the Bikom connect to Sena’s M1 Evo bike helmet mesh system?