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You're going to love the muck-off black edition when it comes out next year. I've been given early access to it for testing as a social media influencer and all-around professional level athlete.
That doesn't seem like a good outcome for chainlube.
A new lube featuring Graphene for only $149.00 for 4oz.....
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I think I have a tin of parrafin wax somewhere. I may have to put the effort in and try it out if I can find it! Interestingly, I think more people will admit good results from a cheap product than poor results from an expensive one. No one likes to admit they got taken for a ride by a super prestigious, super expensive product that was way over hyped and marketed to the coolest kids...."Yeah, sure I paid half a mill for my Ferrari but the suspension sux man! I want my old Bronco back!"I'm sure they want you to throw their paraffin away after each use too, otherwise they would be selling very little of stuff, even though it's super expensive. Not to mention all this additives stuff is BS. Teflon, which is additive in question is simply too big to get in proper place, so only paraffin come to there, and teflon remains on top of chain, where does pretty much nothing. So at least at the moment, I'm happy with plain paraffin, which is extremely cheap, and for now it looks like it's working perfectly. But I agree I'm lucky enough I don't have friends where I would need to brag with price of chain lubricant
Anyway... for me, I cleaned chain when it was new (first gasoline, then degreaser, then water). For every new lubrication, I just drag it through cloth rag, or wash it under running water, if it's muddy, and put it into hot wax. Last time I was doing this, I did it at same time for 3 bikes, and was done in 15min. So not really all that time consuming. If I compare to how much cleaning I had to do with dry lubes I was using before, I would say it's way less time spend maintaining chain now, with one dip into wax (and some links exercise to be running smoothly after wax cools off) every more like 400-450km, then I had before when I needed to clean and lube chain after pretty much every ride.
For me it matters more how much work there is maintaining bike. While I like to fiddle around bike, cleaning and lubing chain is still not something I would love to do. And on other side, how long components last. If you check graphs on above link, check graph5. It's same, but obviously newer test that ZFC made, and that I have seen a while ago here https://cyclingtips.com/2018/03/fast-chain-lube-that-saves-you-money/ It's how long chains last with different lubes through same cycles (clean, dry, wet, extreme contamination...). And those with wax (on my link Molten Speed wax) last way longer then any other non-wax lube. For now, I'm definitely not in any position to recommend (or not) this method.
