Lube!

I've been using Pedro's Syn Lube, good for 250-300 miles a week in all weathers.

+1 for the Green Oil. Really good stuff, and no palm oil. Palm oil = bad. One of many articles.

Rock n'Roll Extreme (the blue one), best lube and cleaner ever! Am using White Lightening Clean but can't wait for the bottle to run out so I can get back to Rock n Roll. I lasts longer, runs smoother, is easy to use and doesn't seem to attact anywhere near the crap the White Lightening does.

Given up on the White Lightning Clean; went out Saturday morning for a longish ride and topped up the lube before leaving but after about 3 hours riding in dry weather I was grinding metal in an alarming way.

Ducked into Evans and grabbed some Finishline Pro Road ceramic and it's a bit of a revelation. Utter silence.

Given up on the White Lightning Clean; went out Saturday morning for a longish ride and topped up the lube before leaving but after about 3 hours riding in dry weather I was grinding metal in an alarming way.

Ducked into Evans and grabbed some Finishline Pro Road ceramic and it's a bit of a revelation. Utter silence.

Me too. It hardly seems to last any time at all before the chain is grinding away. I'm not exactly the most regular at cleaning and shit, so for the winter I've gone back to gloopy wet lube. lovely and smooth and quiet, but has made a right mess of my lovely shiny Phil cog. meh.

i admit the clean doesn't last long, but man, i hate the mess of wet lube.

3 in one oil
classic lubing

+1. Why pay more?

I put on over 10k miles on my road bike as a student with one chain and several tins of 3 in 1. The guys who sell the fancy lubes are (often) the same guys who'll have you pay twenty quid for a 'cycle-specific' adjustable spanner that you can buy a better version of in a hardware store for a tenner.

doesn't 3 in 1 get displaced by water very quickly, and freeze up in the cold?

and smells oddly enough like it's been permeated with essence of TCP

doesn't 3 in 1 get displaced by water very quickly, and freeze up in the cold?

All I know is, I've never been troubled by a rusty chain.

Does your chain turn black and have bits of dirt stuck to it ?

Does your chain turn black and have bits of dirt stuck to it ?

If I don't wipe it and re-lube it every week, yes.

I just got some of this

Seems really good and my chain is almost silent now! :)

that's also what i use. love it.

just got Clean White Lightening ( wax in volatile solvent, which evaporates, leaving the wax residue behind)
It is silent and actually is clean.They are not lying. Clean means clean as silent is silent.

A revelation i have to say, although, you do have to apply it more often,
which doesn't bother me,
but might bother some out there who don't like to get involved with bike maintenance that often.

I started off with Finish Line Pro Road and when that finished I got myself some Finish Line Wet Lubricant. The wet stuff seems alright but I was doing a bit of research and I found someone who uses motor oil and white spirit mixed 50/50. That makes a hell of a lot of lube for not a lot of cash. I'm not in the business of using loads of lube anyway but I thought it might be worth a shot. His rationalisation is that the white spirit makes the formulation thinner and able to penetrate into the rollers where it's needed. The white spirit, being the volatile component, evaporates to leave just motor oil in there. The usual 'apply, wipe, leave overnight, wipe' technique is how he goes about it.

Any opinions?

this has been working for me really well for quite a few years.....smooth !!
http://www.purpleextreme.com/

+1 I use it on the Fixed and the MTB

I started off with Finish Line Pro Road and when that finished I got myself some Finish Line Wet Lubricant. The wet stuff seems alright but I was doing a bit of research and I found someone who uses motor oil and white spirit mixed 50/50. That makes a hell of a lot of lube for not a lot of cash. I'm not in the business of using loads of lube anyway but I thought it might be worth a shot. His rationalisation is that the white spirit makes the formulation thinner and able to penetrate into the rollers where it's needed. The white spirit, being the volatile component, evaporates to leave just motor oil in there. The usual 'apply, wipe, leave overnight, wipe' technique is how he goes about it.

Any opinions?

after using the wax for a bit, i find it still gets gritty as hell.
also the volatile part of your idea, same as with the wax in some ways, carries the dirt into the chain.
You cant win it seems, only sort of washing the whole chain in a bath of petrol/diesel really cleans it.

i bought a ton of 1/8 chains from parker international for 1.95 each + free post.
any wear, I throw away and replace. much easier.

I just got some of this
Seems really good and my chain is almost silent now! :)

Snap. Felt at first it was a bit too thin, which means application can be a bit wasteful. But after a two layer application, it seems to be reallly nice.

I use pedros chainj.
bio-friendly and inexpensive.
works well, but is moderately messy
but that's fine because I like bike maintenance
and dont mind wiping/relubing once a week.

^ I'm trying White Lightning Clean; wax based so dry to touch and when contaminated it drops off so allegedly self cleaning but would need more regular topping up with lube

3 weeks to find that pic?

Still made me chuckle. :)

the conventional wisdom for roadies is that the wax is only useful in the dry. Oil based lube is needed in the wet.
Currently using Squirt as our seasons are very dry and mostly dry. A drop on each link and then left overnight to penetrate into the rollers.

it was reviewed here

the conventional wisdom for roadies is that the wax is only useful in the dry. Oil based lube is needed in the wet.
Currently using Squirt as our seasons are very dry and mostly dry. A drop on each link and then left overnight to penetrate into the rollers.

it was reviewed here

Yeah and what the fuck do roadies know about riding in shitty wet conditions? Wax is wicked in the shitty wet mud. For the record I've been using Rock n'Roll Extreme for all but the driest of days, and thats on both road and mountain bike. Tried a few others like White Lightening but can't seem to go past the good old blue.

Just ran out of finishline wax and bought some Weldtite dry +. Seems to go on better (better bottle?), but contains teflon which is a bit naughty.