Full marks for not including any crap from MucOff in a chain lube review!

You’d almost make ZFC proud 😉

Personally, I’ve been very impressed by Smoove lube, although just migrated to immersive waxing…

people who don’t really want to spend loads/much/any time actually maintaining their drivetrain like a good human being does.

It’s very probably something involving wax and faff

thank god – a faff-free method; at last !! <reads on>

The chain link pliers are for removing the chain from the bike easily. The degreaser is for cleaning said chain, and also the cassette (take the wheel out of the bike and tightly wrap a plastic bag around the disc rotor). The toothbrush is for agitating the black stuff off the cassette, chain and chainring

Oh

Well, OK, so it takes more effort but it’s better than waxing, right? lasts longer, more protective.  Something

Pedro’s syn lube is my go-to all year round

Singlepeed, Gates Drive.
You losers.

I’m with STW here – the juice lubes Viking juice is hands down the best all conditions lube I’ve used.

I’ve tried most of the others on the list and a lot are good but seem limited to certain conditions or seasons. The Viking lube is the only one that truly keeps the chain smooth across the board and as a bonus doesn’t leave a massive load of residue / gunk.

3 for 2 on Viking Juice at, sorry, Amazon if anyone interested.

Edit:

Linky

i like a bit of Viking… i picked up some yesterday at Dean Cycles as they have all the Juice Lube stuff in stock.

Is the Juice Lube a wax-based lube?

Weldtite All Weather with Teflon is the only oil I’ve ever re-bought after trying loads of different types. It’s cheap too!

This is my go-to chain lubricant as well. Why pay more?

Can only recommend squirt lube – so much better than the big pink brand and other generic lubes. I now always have a a bottle in the portable tool box and one in the workshop (aka garage). Makes the drivetrain reliable, and relatively maintenance free. I’m sure it also prolongs chain wear as my chains seem to last forever, they don’t gather the wintery grit that traditional lubes (especially wet lubes) have issues with.

But which lune for throwing on a filthy chain, that never gets cleaned, immeditely before a ride, with a bike/cassette that is already caked in mud from the last ride? Seriously, I don;t think I’ve ever taken a chain off the bike for cleaning, and with 3 kids there’s no way I have time for such faff. It needs to go on, work, and be able to be re-applied. No bathing in degreaser, no chemical cleaning, just chuck-it-on and go. That’s the level of maintenance that I have time for…. My bikes come out of the cold, damp dark shed, get ridden for a few hours, then get put back into the colder, damper, dakrer shed at teh end of the ride. They’re Lucky to have a hose/brush/cloth passed over them.

Looks like Rock ‘n’ Roll Blue could be the thing?

Muc-off is rubbish for this BTW…. It’s really awful…. And in fact may be why my cassette appears to have worn prematurely, based on the feedback on here..

@keithb – I’m the same. Wash down the bike (if it’s filthy), but usually just wipe down the chain before putting it away, add some lube and it’s ready for next time. I don’t even do that if it was a nice dry and dusty ride! Just wipe off the excess dust.

But hen I’m the kind of person that doesn’t measure and replace/alternate my chains very 45 seconds. I just run them until either they snap or the cassette starts jumping and then replace both together. And I still seem to spend less money on drive trains than my friends who run 2 chains and replace something as soon as it shows a tiny bit of wear (apparently this means they have to replace less and save money, but 🤷🏼‍♂️).

I also never saw the point in owning a hard tail for winter as when it’s wet and muddy I always wanted the extra traction (although now I’m a HT only guy) that the rear suspension offered.

Life’s too short and full of kids and fun things to do with them to waste it on stripping chains off the bike all the time.

Had a mate who was like that – would apply lashings of lube just as we were about to roll out the drive. By the time we’d ridden the mile to the trail start you could hear his drivetrain – he’d moan constantly about it.

I can’t see past Squirt, been using it now for over 10 years and it really does make a difference to the drivetrain – I now can get just over 3 years from whole drivetrain (chain is showing wear after 2 years but it still works very well for another year). Bike gets a hose down every 3 or 4 weeks and the drivetrain stays pretty clean. I give the chain a ‘proper’ clean every 8-ish months…Squirt gets applied each time the bike gets washed. My chain isn’t spotless but it is far cleaner than an oiled chain and most of the stuff that is still on the chain is excess Squirt.

His argument was he didn’t have the 30 seconds the night before to apply Squirt (or any lube for that matter) to his bike, but he also had a right moan about the rate his drivetrain would disintegrate – he has since moved to Spain and has noticed his drivetrain lasting longer, but he still hasn’t changed his method, but it is a drier climate there.

Squirt for me. I have used all kinds of wet lubes and dry lubes and none have been easier than squirt. You have to apply it regularly but that’s really all I do. At the moment I rarely do more than a weeks trip so I carry a small bottle with me. For day to day riding it’s easy… use reapply after a ride. I use it on my Tern cargo bike as well as my mountain bikes.

I haven’t tried some of the other lubes that people are recommending so maybe I will experiment and see if another can beat squirt. It will have to be close to self cleaning to beat it mind…

3 for 2 on Viking Juice at, sorry, Amazon if anyone interested.

3 for 2 (mix & match) is also available at Juice Lubes themselves, with free delivery over £25.

Dryer months – squirt
Filthy months – fenwicks professional. The cowpat aroma one.

Summer Road Bike (never sees rain) – Squirt
Gravel Bike – Fenwicks
CX Bike(s)/Winter Road Bike/MTB – Putoline

I’ll not try to convince anyone that Putoline is less faff, or cleaner, as I think that’s debatable, but having stripped the old Putoline of my CX drivetrain in favour of some Viking Juice, I realised how much the Putoline had been masking the wear on the drivetrain, as soon as I stripped it off and applied the Viking Juice the drivetrain pretty much ceased functioning because the hooked chainring teeth were trying to pick up the chain as it dropped off the bottom of the chainring. After re-applying the Putoline I’ve got another 500km at least out of the same drivetrain. Really demonstrated (to me) how much the wax ‘fills in’ the gaps between the chain rollers and pins.

I’ll move the summer road bike and the gravel bike over to Molten Speed Wax once the chains are worn, mainly because Putoline is still too dirty for bikes with white paint… 😎

I’m worried, I find myself having to agree with tjagain – Putoline chain wax and a slow cooker for me

Squirt, been using it for years without any issues and this time of year i switch to the low temp version.

Using Muc-Off Dry on the road bike and so far it’s been fine.

CX Bikes, mainly for racing, I’ve been using Morgan Blue. It’s actually quite good and doesn’t make a mess. For the short use they get it works well enough.