Wen you are cleaning your bike, dont get the brush you use to clean your chain mixed up with the brush you use to clean the alloys on the car. brake dust, it turns out, is fooking hard to get off a bike chain.
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DOH !
hard, how so :ermm:
clean chain with brake cleanerclean chain with paraffinlube as normal
Hard, because it appears that you have applied brake dust and road grime vigorously with a paint brush to at least half your chain, by using a dirty alloy wheel brush instead of a clean chain brush, ensuring it’s ingress into each and every link of an otherwise not very dirty chain before you realised your error.
a 20 minute job, but now, an hour… at least. What a Doofus!:ermm:
Having a giant steel head can’t make the job any easier. 
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Don’t clean your chain ;)Problem solved, I have never cleaned a chain in 12 years of biking! 
Or get a 'bike without a chain. :Whistling:
Get yourself a dedicated chain brush, one of these and a bowl of paraffin brings my chain up nice and sparkly. http://roadgear.com/images/GB800.Cnt.jpg
i am struggling with the whol.e chain cleaning idea, peope actually do this, …i thought you folks were made of myth and legend.
cue the legend puns…
If your chain has a split pin remove from bike. Put chain in a large “lock and lock” type tupperware container with parrafin. Shake, shake again. Shake some more. Remove from container, dry and hey presto. Clean chain.
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pogie (11/11/2012)
Get yourself a dedicated chain brush, one of these and a bowl of paraffin brings my chain up nice and sparkly. http://roadgear.com/images/GB800.Cnt.jpg[/quote]
Better still, get a magic box like this http://www.getgeared.co.uk/KETTENMAX_Motorcycle_Chain_Cleaner_and_Greaser?utm_medium=shopping_feed&utm_source=google