Chris King Ring Drive Lube in Melbourne? or Alternative lube?

General Help
1

Anyone know if any shops in Melbourne sell it?

Got a set of CKs on a new bike and figure I’d better lube the rear.

Or anyone had success with an alternative lube for the ring drive?

thanks
Mike

2

Don’t know about retailing it, but I’d bet that Fitzroy Revolution have it, plus the tools to overhaul.

3

Cheers

From what I understand lubing the ring drive is possible with a couple of allen keys, but I’m gonna contact the guy I bought the bike off to see if the hubs have had a overhaul/re-grease lately.

4

Thought I had some in the Aladdin’s cave but I don’t.

Lubing the ring drive is very easy to DIY and yeah, takes a couple of Allen keys. You’ll find instructions on the CK site. The CK lube is a very thin cream, I don’t know if there is a recommended or usable alternative, or a local retailer for the CK lube. If not Fitzroy Rev at worst you could get some mailed out by Mike and the guys at Aspire (AVT - Aspire VeloTech - Chris King World’s Largest Dealer). A small bottle will last for years.

5

Is the king grease a lithium based lube?
I just pulled the cassete body of my tunes to investigate a noise,
The grease was pretty dry and had turned to shit so I had to re use my lithium stuff,

6

Thanks Captain.

Fitzroy Rev. did have some, $30 for a small bottle, I bought the last one apparently.

And they also have the CK tools to overhaul hubs if anyone is interested.

7

I have no idea whats in the ring lube.

But a little 1.2oz bottle will do 12 hub ‘overhauls’ apparently.

8

Turns out I have the older 'disc-o-tech- CK hubs, which have a Univerisal to ISO disc adapter plate.

Neat engineering but needed a gear puller extractor thing to get it off so I could access the bearing preload collar which it turned out had a 3/32" allen key head!?

So I now own a cheap set of imperial allen keys.