Chain lube: every 500 km or whenever it looks dry or I rode in the wet.
Chain cleaner: rub down vigorously with chain cleaner every 2-3k or so, then re-lube.
That sound ok to you?
I clean and lube the chain every week.
No point lubing it if you don’t clean it first - you need to get the gritty stuff off first because it’s like grinding paste.
Unlike many others, these days I just use whatever engine oil I’ve got lying about in the garage to lube it - does the job and cost a lot less than chain lube.
Clean and relube every three hundred miles - more frequently if weather is bad - seem to get about 15 to 20k miles out of my chains.
I spray the 6 inches or so that are on my rear sprocket every morning before riding off, just with a dry PTFE lube. Takes ten seconds while the bike is warming up. I do about 80 miles a day every day so I try to do all I can to keep stuff like this in order.
Actually do a proper clean and lube every few weeks when I remember 
My chains last forever.
Duncan
I clean the chain sprockets and swingarm with parafin every 10 days or so and re-lube aftwerwards, usually do it as part of a full bike clean
scottoiler and change my chain every 20’000 miles:D
Yep, Scottoiler. My chain is about halfway down the marks after 20,100 miles, I’ve adjusted it 6 times since new. I clean the side plates every time I wash the bike just to keep the surface rust off.
When I told someone that I always cleaned my chain before re-lubing it they looked at me oddly and asked why!! I use the chain wax stuff, gets quite messy if you just keep topping it up!! Nice to know that it’s not just me excercising my OCD 
It’s nice to see some female mechanics on the forum.
i allways clean mine after use :w00t:
+1
currently on the OEM chain and sprockets which have now done 22,000 miles on the ZX10… (although I reckon that’s the limit lol)…
Shut it sausage fingers 
+2 except i dont get that sort of mileage outta my chain, cant think why 
My chain gets a thorough clean and lube on a weekly basis and i use Wurth High Performance Lube as it doesn’t fling off so keeping my wheel free of crap.
Chain is cleaned with a tooth brush and chain cleaner/parafin and WD40 then coated in Lube. It’s now done 14k miles but will prob need changing next service as there are a few tight spots.
Dawn i doubt your OCD is a patch on mine 
I agree, bet you’d win on the OCD when it comes to bike cleaning 
But then you have every reason to have OCD, you have a nice shiny Ducati
and if it isn’t kept spick and spam it breaks down shame ya dont take as much pride in yaself :P:D;)hmmm as for her ocd…thats anuva thing :w00t:
Lol :Whistling:
I clean it when I remember to and have both the lube and the bike handy.
This is how I maintain my chain:
scott oiler FTW