Welcome to That Traflon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon and hosted by me, Michael Erikson.

And with me today, once again, it's Jack Hutchins. How are you doing, Jack?

Hey, Michael, yep.

Good, thank you.

I've been waxing my chains this morning in preparation for a race this weekend.

So got the rice cooker out, melted up the wax, de-gruce, isopropical alcohol.

It's a bit of a process, but all worth it for those extra watts on the bike.

How are you doing? Yeah, I'm good as well. I've had a weekend at another race, mountain race,

so that was good, enjoyed that, and now enjoying being back in the podcasting game again and chatting something

that we haven't really been talking about so much on the podcast in general in a while,

which is specifically a lot of the podcast content is of course general for all triathlon,

but we haven't really specifically touched on sprint and Olympic distance races in a while. So I'm excited for this. About your waxed chain though,

how much do you estimate that it saves you in was? Do you have an estimate? That's a good question.

Maybe five, I'd have to. You've been doing it for so many years. I obviously started doing it based on some sort of numbers that I saw.

And I've kind of just continued.

For me, actually, the biggest benefit is how much cleaner and better maintained your whole bike and drive chain is.

So you don't have the grit and grease everywhere. Also when you're

traveling with your bike, so usually if you're trying to take a chain off, put your bike in a

bike box or something that just grease everywhere, it's just not very nice. Whereas a wax chain

is super clean. You can touch it and if it comes into contact with other parts of your kit or anything, you don't have to stress.

So I am a big fan of the chain wax.

And it's not that difficult to do yourself.

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