Do You Not Like to Lube?
November 1st, 2007 by ArleighCyclingNews has an interesting article about a product they saw out at InterBike. It looks like Boca Bearing has come up with a type of “hard coating” that sticks to any metal. It is mostly for use in the drive train, this coating runs fast and smooth like a properly lubed drive train should with out the “lube” that can get contaminated.
What wasn’t explained very well in the article is if you are sending them YOUR new parts to get coated or if they sell them coated to you. I would think you are sending them your parts unless they are keeping their choices very low. I would be very interested in sending a SRAM PC-99 and Surly single speed cog. The ultimate durable single speed machine would be very well set up if you never had to lube your chain.
Read more about it at Cyclingnews.com
This articles cross-posted from Blue Collar MTB.
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You sending them parts, them selling you coated parts,….. what about an At-Home kit?
I assume that it gets backed on at a high temp. Somewhat like a kiln?
I’m guessing it’s some kind of vapor deposition process, which requires both high temps and a vacuum. There’s probably also some kind of fancy surface prep. I wouldn’t want to try it in my basement. It will be interesting to see how this works out in the real world.