A lot of cynics in this thread.
The product isn't going to cause world peace but I appreciate that they are trying to do something different even if they are completely overboard on the anti-petrolium rhetoric and drama. The cartoonish label on the can certainly doesn't help their credibility but lanolin based lubes are used in industry and there is no reason why it couldn't work on a bike chain.
Lanolin is just wax, that's all, like any other wax.
Biomaxa has been producing lanonlin based bike lubes since 2013. Their packaging does look more professional and I've a mind to try some. I wonder if it has a additive package, molybdenum or similar.
Originally Posted by
wolfchild
Why bother to use eco-friendly lubes ??... when your bicycle and all of its components and tires are manufactured using petroleum and other toxic chemicals ??
One reason is lack of petrolium distillate fumes. Petrolium distillates are the thinners into which the lube is mixed. These evaporate and leave the lube behind. This product has no petrolium distillates and so has no fumes.
I don't have a bike or tire factory in my neighborhood but I do get my drinking water from a resevoir three miles from my house. What a tire factory in China does is not in my control but I'd like to think that people around me care about the water they drink.
Originally Posted by
Milton Keynes
I'd say that if it were made to be removed by water, best not to use it in the rain.
Any lubricant can be removed by water.
-Tim-