Rode with a squeaky chain for 2 weeks and my coworker Dana finally snapped
Honestly I didn't even hear the squeak anymore until Dana grabbed my handlebars in the parking garage on 5th and said it sounded like a dying shopping cart. I timed it: 14 days of that noise before I finally wiped the chain and threw on some lube, and the ride to the office went from sounding like a haunted house to dead quiet in one morning. Turns out I was also losing a couple seconds of speed per block without noticing. Anyone else go nose-blind to their own bike noises for way too long before someone calls it out?