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Old 08-15-18 | 04:22 PM
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F.Bacchus
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I work at a bike shop and I've used a lot of lubes just for the sake of trying them all.

Prolink: a bit too thin for my liking, required reapplication every 1.5 weeks with daily riding. Though it is great at flushing grit out of the inner part of a chain.

Finish line wet: sticky! Can last for nearly a month but seems to collect grit like nothing else. I'd liken this to Phil's tenacious oil. The standard lube to put on customer's bikes when you can tell they never oil their chain; because you know it'll stick around for a while.

Finish line dry: meh. Required reapplication every week (daily riding) as it seemed to dry out very quickly. Also as a dry lube it still attracted lots of dirt which defeats the entire purpose of a dry lube. Was happy with as I didn't mind relubing often, but moved to a wax as I was tired of black chains.

Finish line wax: alright. Reapplication required every two weeks, however I ended up needing a lot of it to sufficiently lube the chain. The little bottle only gave me 4 re-lubes which is really bad compared to the fact that a same size bottle of finish line wet would last us about 3 weeks of daily shop use (about 4-5 bikes lubed a day at peak). It did keep my drive train nice and clean though!

White lightning wax: what I'm using now. Only been 3 weeks so I can't say much. Similar to finish line wax in that it doesn't attract much dirt, and it seems to require far less from the bottle to coat the chain, which I'm happy with. One thing I do notice is an audible "swish" coming from the chain when I really power down (even when I have lubed that very day), which makes me question its efficacy, but I can't really prove anything.
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