I use Rock n Roll King of all lubes and it's the best i've tried.

www.rocklube.com

The rock and role is good, but it's wasteful to apply and becomes expensive, 5 lubes for £6 area.

I use Multi Lub Plus, all year round £3 bottle lasts me 6months normally.

Go 8speed to, its so much less hassle over the winter, never missed or skipped once since I swapped.

I use 10spd during the winter, I've never skipped either. Must be the lube :-)

On a road bike, your MTB's are locked away with a electric blanket on them no doubt.

LOL, no just a heater and dehumidifier.

better then :)


Mines in the house, locked to the wall where it's all nice and warm to :) But it's plastered in mud for tonights ride, going to have to clean it abit :(

Anyone rembemr Black Gold stuff?

Finish line cross country. The green stuff for winter, red stuff for summer. Tried the wax lube this summer, falls off after a couple of kilometres, utter rubbish.

I'd second Finish Line XC, the extreme wet weather green stuff simply will not shift at all! I tried a cheaper copy version and it's $h!te; washes off within a couple of hours..

finish line wet too...
although i do like the white lightening epic wax stuff. works well ime.

I love the smell of the finish line green :-)

It works quite well too.

Mee too.

It is a rather cheeky little number!

Lovely bouquet(sp)

The trick with FinishLine wet lube and White Lightning wet ride is the application.

First clean the chain real well - best method I have come up with is to remove the chain then scrub it with a brush and some warm lemon fairy liquid water. Go over both sides, then when this is clean rinse. Next, get a bit of rag, dry the chain and poke betweeen each rivet to make all the rivets AND rollers clean.

Now clean cassette, chainrings and jockey wheels.

Finally, re-install the chain and apply the lube - one drop to each individual roller. This should last one ride. After the ride hose the drivetrain while pedaling backward to get the worst gunk off. Then wipe chain/jockey wheels with a rag and re-apply lube, one drop per roller.

After ten rides you may have to reclean everything, but this is the best and quickest way to have a sweet drivetrain over winter.

Good God. No wonder you don't find the time to post here very often Luke.

PMSL

I have perfected my technique. Throuroughly degrease/clean (Ie put in bucket with copius amounts of heavy duty workshop grade degreaser). After 24hrs rinse with copies amounts of high pressure hose pipe water. Dry with dry rag. Spray with copius amount of wd40/gt85. Then hang from garage ceiling and start the drip method. I start at the top and drip finish line green down the chain using enough that as it drips down it coats every single link.

Leave it overnight and then next morning wipe it lightly with a cloth to get rid of excess.

In labour terms it takes about 5mins really :-)

Ditto.

Cant see the point in anything else. Even the finish line only lasts a couple of rides before it is a filthy mess atm.

's right. If you're gonna clean it, clean it. As you say, especially right now.