Hilldodger – a couple of hundred miles a week of wet muddy offroad? thats a lot of miles a week. On road even in the wet it lasts hundreds of miles. When its dry its much more
Multiday trips? I lube it before I go and again when I come back.
600miles on the road around the netherlands with a fair amount of rain I did need to put a bit of oil on it. Its the only time I have.
I normally do 20 – 40 miles rides in a day (offroad)so at least 5 days riding even in filthy conditions and in good conditions many more
its not just the money saving – although that is significant its also the vastly improved chain life – 4 or 5 times as long I believe ( but have not recorded) and having nicely lubed chains all the time.
You know those horribly peat bogs that strip the lube out of your chain in minutes – it even survives that.
I do have to say scinceofficer decided the faff was too much for him and I will be interested to hear how northwind gets on.