Wednesday 3 December 2008
Personalise
Help

Read or Write User Product Reviews | Find Your Nearest Shop | Find a Brand | Buy a BM Jersey

Joining prize

Join BIKEmagic now

Join today & you could win one of five Joe's no flats tubeless conversion kits from Hotlines

why join?

Members Logon

Email:
Password:
forgot your password?

Premium Shopping Partners

Are you a retailer?

	Merlin Cycles
	Cycle Surgery
	Rutland Cycling
	D2 Leisure Group
	Chain Reaction Cycles
	Wiggle

Travel Partners

	Snowdonia Charity Challenge
	Responsible Travel
	BikeVillage
	Explore Cycles
	Skyline Events
	Ticket2RideBC
	The Mountain Bike Chalet

Shopping Partners

	Dales Cycles
	Sprockets.uk.com
	Kudu Bikes
» More Shopping

Latest Reviews

17827 Total Reviews

	Freeride Spain Sierra Nevada Mountain Range by Paul Iddon 2
	Specialized Low Pro Magnesium Pedal by Barry McCauley
	Ergon GX2 Magnesium Grips by Barry Robinson
» Loads More Reviews

Get your RSS now

Get bikemagic.com straight to your desktop with our RSS feed.

- All articles feed

Other feeds are available.
Need RSS help?

Get the bikemagic newsletter

Home > Product Reviews > Lubricants / De-greasers > X-Lite Muc-Off with trigger kit Reviews

X-Lite Muc-Off with trigger kit

Summary|Reviews|Discussions|Start a discussion

Bookmark this

X-Lite Muc-Off with trigger kit
More about X-Lite

Average Rating: 3 out of 5
No. of Reviews: 27
RRP: £5.50
Year: 2004

Description: Use Muc-off to clear up the grime. Spray on - wash off. Cleans chains, gear, cranks, frame etc. Bio-degradeable. Refillable bottle. Pump-action, no CFCs.

REVIEWS

1 to 10 of 27 reviews, to post a review you need to be a member - Join now.Page: 1 2 3

mark sime

Posted: 29/05/07

'GOOD STUFF'

Strengths:
If used correctly cleans a bike very well.

Weaknesses:
If left it will destroy anything. It leaked over my track pump and turned it to rust before I fgured out what was happening.

Overall:
As long as you don't leave it too long this does the job.
It is comming down in price since fenwicks came along which is supposed to be better.

Use with caution.

Performance		60%
Reliability		60%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

60%

Craig Furber

Posted: 08/02/01

Strengths:
Cleans all bikes parts really easily.
Biodegradeable.

Weaknesses:
Expensive.
You have to buy the spray nozzle separately.
Only as effective as a good quality biodegradeable washing up liquid, a brush, water and a little elbow grease.

Overall:
Good product which does clean the bike well.
Use soap and water, it's just as effective.

Performance		60%
Reliability		60%
Value		40%

Overall Rating

53%

David Brown

Posted: 13/02/01

'Cleans your bike'

Strengths:
Cleans off anything, with very little effort.

Also, good for cleaning grease off hands if you've run out of Swarfega !!

Weaknesses:
Can be a little agressive to paintwork if you leave it on for too long

Overall:
Excellent product, not expensive if you buy the larger containers, but be careful it can strip lacquer !

Performance		100%
Reliability		80%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

80%

Gary Laskey

Posted: 15/02/01

'easy cleaner'

Strengths:
excellent cleanser, shifts the hardest of stains with very little effort

Weaknesses:
expensive stuff, use quite a lot to clean your bike

Overall:
An great cleanser that requires little effort to clean your bike spray on rinse off, sparkling bike ...BINGO!!

Performance		100%
Reliability		100%
Value		60%

Overall Rating

87%

Shaun Newman

Posted: 12/07/01

'A Dream after a long dirty ride'

Strengths:
Easy to use, getting cheaper all the time.

Weaknesses:
Don't be silly!

Overall:
Even the best brushes cant get into the places that this stuff does, get your bike down to the local garage, buy a token for the jetwash, spray the bike all over with muck off and jet wash the bike.... comes up like new with the minimum of effort.

(A good strong garden hose will also suffice).

Performance		100%
Reliability		100%
Value		100%

Overall Rating

100%

al randall

Posted: 03/09/01

'rubbish'

Strengths:
biodegradable

Weaknesses:
expensive and just doesn't work well enough to justify th price

Overall:
i cant believe people buy this stuff- just use cheap washing up liquid, a soft brush and plenty of clean water. save the money and buy something really useful for your bike

Performance		40%
Reliability		40%
Value		20%

Overall Rating

33%

Alan Darwin

Posted: 14/10/01

' '

Strengths:
ok if your bikes has a VERY light coating off dust.

Weaknesses:
Too expensive. Doesn't beat using good old elbow grease.

Overall:
Just not worth the asking price. If you've really caked your bike in mud you'll still have to get the fairy liquid bucket out to scrub it all off as Muc-off won't touch it.

Performance		40%
Reliability		40%
Value		20%

Overall Rating

33%

peter marshall

Posted: 14/10/01

'NOT WORTH IT'

Weaknesses:
doesn't really get the muc off

Overall:
it doesn't really work

Performance		40%
Reliability		20%
Value		20%

Overall Rating

27%

Richard Drew

Posted: 07/12/01

'PROBABLY WORSE WAYS TO WASTE YOUR MONEY'

Strengths:
Cleans better than plain water

Weaknesses:
Like most cleaners it will attack aluminium if left on for too long. Hideously expensive.

Overall:
This doesn't work any better than lightly diluted washing up liquid and still risks damaging paintwork and aluminium if left on too long. If you clean your bike thoroughly and take it off road you'll be lucky to get much more than four cleaning sessions out of a bottle.

Performance		40%
Reliability		40%
Value		20%

Overall Rating

33%

rob cole

Posted: 07/12/01

'FUNKY PINK STUFF THAT HELPS SHIFT DIRT!'

Strengths:
Does seem to shift most dirt

Weaknesses:
But then so does washing-up liquid
Expensive!!
Pink (guess it stops dummies thinking it's water and drinking it)

Overall:
I use this stuff when I have $$$, when I don't I use Ecover (biodegradable washing up liquid) and there doesn't seem to be much difference. Except that Muc-off is £5 for a bottle, and Ecover is £2 and concentrated so you get 100's of washes from one bottle.

Maybe X-Lite should sell it as a concentrate? I go through 1 bottle in 2-3 bike washes. The only place i find it makes a difference is in my chain cleaning machine, there it definitely works better than washing up liquid.

Also, do X-lite know that Raleigh P&A have ripped off the packing / product with their Muc-Cleaner, same bottle, same colour; or do Raleigh get this from whoever sells to X-Lite?