I was once working with a pro team at a Tour high in the French Alps. We had a stage start at the bottom of the hill one day and riders decided to ride down. Bikes always get lubed the night before, because while 10-20mins is good, a whole night in a warm dry room is better.
I came in from breakfast to inflate tyres, do a bolt check and hand bikes out, and find our Russian assistant mechanic spraying lube / using the Squidulous badly all over a chain which had dripped all over the carbon brake track (his team contract was a weird arrangement that became clearer a couple years later when the russian champion he was minding on the team went positive). He became very aggressive when I intervened.
This remains the only time I have come to blows with a colleague.
I hesitate to attribute this to chain lube technique.
June 20, 2021, 7:30 p.m. - Heinous
I was once working with a pro team at a Tour high in the French Alps. We had a stage start at the bottom of the hill one day and riders decided to ride down. Bikes always get lubed the night before, because while 10-20mins is good, a whole night in a warm dry room is better. I came in from breakfast to inflate tyres, do a bolt check and hand bikes out, and find our Russian assistant mechanic spraying lube / using the Squidulous badly all over a chain which had dripped all over the carbon brake track (his team contract was a weird arrangement that became clearer a couple years later when the russian champion he was minding on the team went positive). He became very aggressive when I intervened. This remains the only time I have come to blows with a colleague. I hesitate to attribute this to chain lube technique.