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GT85.
Something from Juice Lubes, I think it’s Viking Juice, but I tend to just grab whichever one is to hand.
I’m still a fan of Finish Line wet lube as well.
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muckoff spray ebike lube in a spray can. thin enough to not get gunky and actually seems to work.
Smoove, year round. Degrease, dry, apply, leave 24hr, one more light application, leave dry and ready to ride.
I get about 100 miles per application.
Putoline. Use year round. dump chain in pot, heat, take it out, wipe it and refit. I get hundreds to thousands of miles per application and 5000+ miles out of a chain
Put a new chain on recently and am giving Wolf Tooth WT-1 (SCC Tech Drivetrain Treatment) a go, hoping it might go longer without reapplying. Massive black mess the first few rides which I assume is the factory grease coming off, perhaps I should have just degreased the chain before fitting.
@iainc, how long did it take yours to start running clean? I'm 250km in and still wiping black mess off the chain and cassette every ride, albeit not nearly as much as the first three or so rides.
Homebrew wax mix. Way better than lube.
Clean and once you are set up, a load less faff and cheaper to boot
Loving the Juice Lubes Viking Juice. It's actually a wax in a solvent, so it goes on super-runny, then the solvent evaporates off and leaves the chain clean and non-sticky, but with long-lasting wax where it matters.
@iainc, how long did it take yours to start running clean? I’m 250km in and still wiping black mess off the chain and cassette every ride, albeit not nearly as much as the first three or so rides.
probs similar, around 4 rides, it does get pretty clean and is certainly long lasting. As per the thread you linked, I have recently tried Peatys Premium on one of the gravel bikes and will be going back to WT at the weekend as it works much better for me than the Peatys stuff ( which in its previous form as Wickens and Soderstrom was my goto lube).
so for me, it’ll be WT-1 on MTB and gravel and Smoove on the road bikes.
MucOff Dry... am I odd? Whats actually wrong with it?
Whats actually wrong with it?
I actually idly picked up a bottle of Muc-Off Dry in Evans a while back, and it says on the label "water soluble" ...I put it back on the shelf at that point. I think if you do a brief scan of the sites that test lube, Muc-off stuff is consistently the worst performing.
@rickmeister I've tried muc off dry and wet lubes in the past and found the dry lube to be meh, noisy drivetrain, didn't stop dust adhesion and would wash off if you went through a puddle or found yourself in a rain shower.
The wet lube was like super glue any grime would be stuck up and sucked in leaving me with a noisy gritty feeling chain even after extensive cleaning.
I think most peoples problem with it is it isn't very good at what its designed to do, and there is hundreds of other brands out there which still aren't that good but still do a better job. Combined with how well muc off markets themselves as well I think people feel cheated that such an influential company is selling crap lube to the less informed and likely causing them to have to replace chains and cassettes sooner than if they'd have used a better lube.
Take some of the other lubes for example which are actually good, you don't always find them in every bike shop, in halfords or aldi or asda etc, but you can find muc off lubes in every bike shop near enough and even in supermarkets
I haven't had an issue using muc off dry for years now, it stays clean for me and chains last long enough. When it's really wet I stick their wet lube on and again it cleans off easily enough with a few sprays of bike cleaner and a hose down which I'd be doing to the rest of the bike anyway.
I've used Putoline for 2 years now and I'm sold. Previously used a 1L bottle of TF2.
Have tried the drip-on-wax lubes and light lubes in the past but I was regularly caught out on a long or wet ride with a dry chain. So ended up on TF2 which works well, albeit with a fairly mucky chain.
Finally tried Putoline and have found myself in the it-lasts-ages camp, and it's much cleaner than a wet lube. I was worried about the smell but using 120 degree on the fryer it's not been a problem. On the pub / station bike it's also brilliant: the chain is completely rusty on the outside but still lubed on the inside.
Squirt, all year round. Never need to clean the chain. Any wax lube really though. Oil lubes will suck in the crud, "wet" more so. Wet lube is only really suited for riding in rivers and road riding IMO, should never be used in wet mud. I've had better results with dry lube in winter, though not as good as Squirt.