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Damiano Machiavelli said:I ride enough to regularly wear out chains, unlike some people.
OK, I'm assuming you are not a troll and you sound like you ride enough to have some souplesse.
So I would recommend that you change your maintenance regime to wax lube weekly (which tends to shed grime as it accumulates), and every month or so give the chain a good clean with a chain cleaning machine like the one below filled with de-greaser and remove you cluster to do the same in a bowl of de-greaser. As you say, the wear comes from what you can't see - ie the chain stretching as the link internals wear with a knock-on effect to the cluster and chainrings as the chain spacings change.
It's 20 minutes of work every month, but I have to say I find a shiny clean chain and cluster strangely therapeutic
