Hi All Following recommendations on this forum I bought some Squirt lube. I did my first ride after applying it this morning on the turbo / trainer. OMG - I have never heard such a noisy drivetrain. It sounded like a nest of mice in the garage. So squeaky I could hear it above my headphones! Am I …

For Smoove, I found that putting a lubed chain in a small zip lock bag worked really well. I put the clean chain in the bag, put a drop on each link, and then sealed up the bag. I also articulated the chain around a bit and let it sit over night. You don’t lose any lube due to it dripping off and it…

[image] AJS914: I’ve also wondered if letting the bag sit in hot water would help the lube penetrate better but I didn’t try that. The last 2 times I’ve applied squirt to my MTB, I heated the chain with a heated air blower. Seems to make the squirt less viscous and help somewhat with penetrat…

I have been using Squirt for 5 years on all my bikes (Enduro, XC and RB). We get lots of mud and rain in my country and they work well. A few times where it got creaky, i doubt any other lube could have done better (soft mud nearly touching the cassette). The winner was when on a bike trip to Indon…

Stick with the Muc-Off (I prefer the ceramic dry for my climate) - it’s a far better lubricant.

The “carrier” in Squirt is water - it’s an emulsion of parrafin waxes and water.

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To be fair @bufulo was talking about the ceramic lube and Zero friction haven’t tested that. I also prefer the Muc Off dry ceramic lube over Squirt as I feel the squirt lube wore out my cassette quicker than the Muc Off lube.

Apologies - missed this. They did test the Team Sky Hydrodynamic lube which Muc-Off market as their ultimate lube so it stands to reason that this would perform better than Ceramic (or at least you’d hope it would for the higher price).

Apparently not according to Zero Friction. I think they stated somewhere that the cheaper lube was more efficient in terms of watts saved which is crazy. I’ll try to find where that was stated when I’m back at my laptop.

I’ve just had a look at the detailed study (link below for anyone with some free time…) and you are quite right! Bizarrely the ludicrously expensive Muc-Off Nano lube actually leads to more wear than the Hydrodynamic so you may be right on the Ceramic being another step in the right direction [imag…

Squirt Lube - what am I doing wrong?

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harrystokoe January 8, 2021, 8:16am 81

Unfortunately not true - the testing here shows that the Muc-Off was actually one of the lubes which led to the chain wearing out fastest whereas the Squirt/Smoove led to some of the longer chain lifespans.

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