Been using Fenwicks spray cans but fancy a change, so come on let's build a consensus...
Concensus? Behave...
Rock n Roll for the chain - copes with year round West of Scotland conditions, and I don't have to degrease, ever.
Fork juice - Seems expensive, lasts ages, works well, smells awesome.
putoline boil in the tin chainwax - nothing else comes close especially at £ per chain lube
Lidl silicone oil spray
White Lightning dry chain lube.
WD40 silicone spray
Squirt dry lube.
Rock n Roll extreame (blue one) most of the year.
Squirt wax in summer (if we get one).
Juice lube on the forks.
Bolt
Gt85 for chain
Juicy lube forks/shock
White lightning epic ride on the chain.
Doesn't last as long as i'd like, but runs nice and clean.
Never lubed fork/shock 🙄
White lightning epic ride on the chain.
Doesn't last as long as i'd like, but runs nice and clean.Never lubed fork/shock
Same as Andy, but without the eyeroll.
Rock n Roll Extreme for chain
fox float fluid occasionally drizzled on the forks
Rock and Roll Extreme Blue and Juicy Lubes fork spray as it smells great
Possibly a heretic, but Scottoiler 365 for the chain and WD40 silicon spray for forks (and shock and reverb).
Squirt on the chain & Fork Juice on the forks
Scottoiler 365
Decent stuff too, my standby if I run out of RnR.
Squirt. I think the theoretical lack of staying power is countered by the lack of black grinding paste build up. Big bottle for 20 quid seems to be lasting forever.
As per Nobeerinthefridge. I use three different rock n roll lubes depending on which bike, best road bike rock n roll red, commuter get gold, winter commutes I use extreme. MTB gets one of the above. cx bike usually gold.
Putoline chain wax in the winter, squirt in the summer
Finish line stanchion lube for the fork shock and dropper stanchion.
Rock n roll blue on MTB most of the time, move over to Squirt usually around now, till September.
Fork Juice on suspension.
Good road bike, Pedros Ice Wax
Winter road, adventure and boys bikes - Progold Prolink
Rock n roll gold or blue
Juicy lube Forky stuff
Rock n Roll blue on chain
Molykote 33 on fork stanchions
Rock n Roll blue on chain
Molykote 33 on fork stanchions
Where are people buying RnR lubes from now, eBay used to be the best source at a reasonable price, best price I can find now is on [url= https://thecycleclinic.co.uk/collections/chain-lubrication-and-greases/products/rock-n-roll-absolute-dry-chain-lubricant ]the cycle clinic[/url]
Cycle clinic for me 16oz of blue goodness
Just ordered some more yesterday from cycle clinic Gary. I used to swear by Progold Prolink, tried RnR on nobeer's suggestion and it is, way better
What's the thought on silicone sprays? A mate gave me a can. Is it safe for chain, fork, shock and pivots? Bike's a 3 month old FS.
Silicone is good for sliding seals on fork/shock/seatpost , but no use for chain or pivots (other than to keep water out). It's crap for brakes, so be careful where the spray goes.
Squirt drylube on the chain and fork juice on the reverb/shock/fork.
Just don't get any fork juice anywhere remotely near a wooden floor 😳
Juice Lubes - Wet or Dry Lube.
Being mostly Rigid SS does have some benefits.
Fork juice is JL69 with a Blueberry scent 🙂
I've just spent a lot of money working through a load of different lubes after Rock N' Roll Extreme disappeared for a while! I know it's a personal preference and terrain/weather dependant thing with chain lube but here's my little list I've worked through:
Muc Off Wet: great for short rides and if you use it sparingly. Any longer than 15 or so miles and it either disappears in the wet or gums up everything if it's even remotely dry. Awful in reasonably dry conditions, just acts like velcro for every bit of dirt going!
Fenwicks Stealth Extreme: Very good in pretty much all conditions. Did over 80 miles on it in mixed conditions (L-B offroad) without having to top-up. Doesn't get gooey unless you load on too much. Sadly no longer made 🙁
Morgan Blue Syn Lube: Nearly as good as the Fenwicks Stealth but does goo up easier in dry conditions. Great in the wet and on the commuter bike when used sparingly.
Juice Lubes Wet: Sticky, horrible and doesn't last in the wet!
Pedro's Ice Wax: great in the dry, useless in anything remotely wet ie not suitable for Wales.
Muc Off Team Sky Hydrodynamic: works well in most conditions but doesn't last long when it's really gritty. Mahoosively expensive!!
Rock N' Roll Extreme: Lasts forever. Runs silent for the first 20 miles or so then you start to hear the rollers rattling a bit. It then carries on working for ever, seemingly! Only managed to get the chain squeaking once after two sopping wet rides in a row and I forgot to reapply it. Keeps the chain near spotless. Happily it's now available again from Ribble 😀
All of that is from mainly riding a mix of trail centres and natural all over Wales and FOD etc.
Forks, shock and dropper get Juice Lubes spray every time. Best out there by a mile and lasts aeons.
Whatever is the cheapest silicon spray for both
Muc off dry for the chain and juice lube for forks and dropper.
Just got some Fenwicks Professional - I ordered Stealth (from wiggle) but professional is what turned up. Bottle and colour look the same - is it stealth rebranded ?
Chain lube- putoline, nothing else gets within miles.
And halfords silicon spray for forks, works fine. I've had brunox and fork juice and I don't think they do anything differently.
Generally Muc Off C3 for the vast majority of riding although I've just got some on that Green lubes dry wax and it works well too.
My forks are USD type so spraying them is pointless unless I leave the bike the wrong way up.
Squirt.
Muc off dry lube for the chain and Juice stuff on the forks.
Currently, as a comparison....
Rock n Roll extreme on the HT (used for bimbles and wet shitty rides)
Squirt on the good FS
Can't decide which I prefer.
Juice lube on the forks, shock and dropper.
Cheap 3in1 silicone spray on the downtube and under the BB to stop so much mud sticking.
I've been using Finishline Wet for the last 20 years... perhaps it is time to try something else 😉
I can only assume that the folks who use squirt are the type if people who ride [i]around[/i] puddles and are thus to be avoided......
I dunno, I did a few wet rides with squirt and it was fine. But then I did a local ride where it was the wrong sort of mud or something and it just exploded the drivetrain. I never did figure it out
At the moment something by Fenwicks that has a blue lid and is waxy for the chain. When it's wet I'll put Finishline Green on for every ride.
Stanchions.....nothing. I wipe them down when muddy and service them regularly.
Epic Ride for chains (previously Clean Ride but gone off wax again)
Good mix of long life, good action and clean running. Kinda semi dry.
Forks: Fork Juice for preference but unfortunately local bike shops seem to have some sort of supplier deal that leads to them all having a big rack of Fenwicks' junk and no Juice Lubes products.
This makes me sad and gives me one less reason to go in. If local shops won't sell what I want I have no option but to buy elsewhere... (obviously I'll buy things they do want to sell that I want to buy)
The Prolink Progold stuff works well in local mixed conditions in West of Scotland, though not as clean as rock n roll.
Squirt on chain.
Light oil on shock seals, e.g. I use Fox Float Fluid
No sprays, and especially never ever anything like GT85 near seals. Wash (not jet) and wipe down. Cloth round the seals to make sure no grit on them, oil and pump shocks a few times, wipe residual oil off (else attracts grit).