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  • Chain oil-whats everyone using?
  • dcl
    Full Member

    Looking at getting in a load of oil for the winter as my supplies are running low.
    Want something to last a few rides as we have 3 regular bike users in the house.
    As usual looking for something of good value.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    Puitoline chain wax for motocross bikes. Its a solid wax you melt and dunk the chain in. I find it last may hundreds of miles offroad and thousands on road and a kilo tin costing under £40 has lasted me with 7 bikes in the house many years now but is nearly finished. chain and cssette life is also vastly increased.

    Its a messy faff to do and a few others on here have tried it – some don’t find it as good as I do but many are converts

    Its so much better and cheaper than bicycle specific oils IME

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    Muc-off wet lube. I use it all year, applied sparingly.

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    cheddarchallenged
    Free Member

    Smoove Chain lube – seems to still be running very clean despite 15 hours of riding through slop since I applied it. Chain needs to be very clean / de-greased / dry before applying and then needs to be left a bit.

    Bikeradar reviewed it recently with similar results.

    P-Jay
    Free Member

    Muc-off wet, mostly because they sell it in Tesco so I remeber to buy it.

    Put the least on possible and wipe it off and it doesn’t get too grim.

    rickmeister
    Full Member

    Mud-Off dry lube. Doesn’t attract and collect stuff as its non sticky. Nice clean and lubed drive chain.

    chakaping
    Free Member

    You can get a litre of weldtite wet lube from Crc for about £12.

    It’s good stuff and doesn’t gunk up as bad as finish line wet.

    mintimperial
    Full Member

    I use the Muc Off C3 wet stuff cos it’s pink and it smells nice. No, really.

    (Just buy some flipping oil and bung it on the chain, jeez.)

    paladin
    Full Member

    scotroutes – Member
    Muc-off wet lube. I use it all year, applied sparingly.

    me too. tried the dry lub once, but wasnt impressed.The dry lube is ok for squeaky door hinges in the hoose tho.

    paulneenan76
    Free Member

    Squirt. Converted a few years ago. Used most, this is better.

    cookeaa
    Full Member

    Home-brewed wax in an old pan at the minute…

    Onzadog
    Free Member

    I used to use squirt in the summer, then switch to putoline once it got wetter as I found the squirt washed out too easily.

    Tried smoove this summer and found it longer lasting and harder wearing than squirt. So much so that I’ve not switched over to putoline yet and might not need to.

    Putoline is still probably to longer lasting lube but smoove is definitely cleaner, quicker and easier.

    mattbee
    Full Member

    Muc Off dry for mtb as it’s usually short (1-2hr) rides so it doesn’t matter as much if it’s washed off quickly. Then just wipe chain and reapply after every ride, takes seconds & chains seem to last just as long as when I faffed with wet lube etc.
    ‘Gravel’ bike uses Muc Off wet lube as it tends to be our fur longer & used wet roads too so i find dry diesntblast quite long enough this time of year. The noise was driving me insane & frontvshifting really suffered. I do have to clean the chain properly every couple of weeks though.

    jimmy
    Full Member

    I used to hot wax my chain too but have slipped out of the habit. So now its x-lite pink wet lube which is really very good.

    muggomagic
    Full Member

    I started using Rex lube earlier in the year and it’s been very good in a variety of conditions. Think I reapply every 3-4 weeks and I ride 2-3 times a week in all conditions.

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    weeksy
    Full Member

    GT-85.

    patagonian
    Free Member

    Squirt is great in the summer but just washes straight out once the bad weather arrives, doesn’t even last one ride.
    Changed to Putoline a couple of months ago and very impressed so far. The commuter gets used everyday and the MTB three times a week, still running on the original application but will probably dip them again this week just in case.
    £25 for a 1kg tin and it takes 20mins although I did splash out on a cheap chip fryer to make it easier.
    I also dropped in the old Yankee Candles we had, my chains now smell of “Clean Linen”

    astormatt
    Free Member

    Smoove user here. I think it’s great, stays quite clean and lasts well.

    Bez
    Full Member

    White Lightning Epic Ride here, seems much better than the Muc-Off I was using prior to that.

    Flaperon
    Full Member

    http://road.cc/content/review/154663-muc-team-sky-hydrodynamic-lube

    ^^ this.

    Apply sparingly otherwise chain goes extra black but it’s oh-so-quiet.

    lunge
    Full Member

    FinishLine Dry. Every now and then I try other things and always end going back to it.

    simons_nicolai-uk
    Free Member

    Another happy Smoove user. All the benefits of squirt but lasts longer.

    wilburt
    Free Member

    Still on leftover engine oil.

    richmars
    Full Member

    As already mentioned, Smoove here, was squirt but just didn’t last long enough.

    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    Putoline.

    As others said, nothing lasts even a comparable amount of time. Mud doesn’t stick, and if you include cleaning its not any slower than conventional lube.

    NigE5
    Free Member

    Muc-off wet lub is utter shite, great on first application in garage, back in at end of ride its all gone dry and is proceeding to gum up all the drive train.
    Pro link gold if I can find it, trouble is LBS only sell muck off.
    I bet the mechanics on team sky don’t use Muc-off.

    onewheelgood
    Full Member

    It makes no difference.

    “In addition, the chain used for
    the lubrication study was fully
    degreased and was re-tested for efficiency.
    This degreasing operation consisted
    of a five-minute scrub with
    kerosene followed by a cleaning with
    Castrol Degreaser. The measured efficiency
    of the de-lubricated chain for
    the 52–15 combination at 60 RPM and
    100 W was 90.3% and at 200 W was
    96.5%. These efficiencies are essentially
    the same as those measured for the
    chain in the re-lubricated condition.”

    http://www.ihpva.org/HParchive/PDF/hp50-2000.pdf

    Just give it a spray with GT85 to stop it rusting and you’ll be fine.

    Rich_s
    Full Member

    5 litres of chainsaw oil off the bay for 13.50 delivered…

    nickc
    Full Member

    Juice lube Viking here. Clean and quiet.

    bikerboy2008tc
    Free Member

    Pro gold / pro link …… it’s the shizzle

    NormalMan
    Full Member

    Squirt.

    st66
    Full Member

    Rock n Roll extreme = Lovely clean chain.

    medoramas
    Free Member

    The green Finish Line, all year round.

    scruff
    Free Member

    TF2 wet on the MTB, it’s ok but goes gunky. Rock n roll holy cow on the gravel, great in the dry but needs to be warm when applied so that’s a pain.
    Thinking of trying putoline.

    Bez
    Full Member

    It makes no difference.

    It certainly makes a difference to how long you can ride for until the chain sounds like it’s scraping itself to death.

    superleggero
    Free Member

    Pro Gold Pro link Extreme is excellent I find

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    So, to summarise this thread, just use anything.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Still found nothing to compare to Putoline wax. It’s an enormous pain in the chuff but it works better and lasts better than anything else I’ve used.

    mark90
    Free Member

    I like….

    Rock n roll blue – as per comments on here the latest batch does seem a bit watery.
    Squirt – for the dry(er) months, I must get some Smoove to try
    W&S no.5 – must be made from unicorn tear or something, but it does work well and keeps a clean drive train

    As you can tell from my lube choices I do like a clean drive train.

    Edit: Keen to try ProGold ProLink Xtreme as heard good things about that.

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