Originally Posted by Jed19

It is just not the issue of being a good lube, it is also the fact that it is applied under pressure. I once saw a cable television piece on how bicycle chains are manufactured, and one thing that stuck with me was the fact that the factory lube -while it may not be as good as it gets function-wise- was right up there in terms of getting the lube in all the right places lube ought to be. And under pressure too!